Experimental Textiles is a course offered at The ATLAS Institute that aims "to shed light on how textiles can be used to create functional systems and engineered for highly specific purposes. The goal is to encourage students outside of textiles to consider how they might integrate textile structures into their research and prototyping practice, or, for textiles experienced students to learn how their knowledges can be useful for producing new kinds of sensors, actuators, and otherwise 'dynamic' textile systems."
Over the course of a semester, we learned how to weave on different equipment, ranging from simple DIY looms to complex multi-shaft floor looms; read/write weaving drafts; incorporate electronics to produce fabric with working circuitry, and much more.
Click on the photos below to learn more about the various prototypes and structures we studied!
making a book loom
making soft-to-hard connectors
warp and weave
weaving on a floor loom
putting it in a pocket
"Low-Tech Layered Lenticular"
