The trade show TechTextil 2024 opens in Frankfurt on April 23. One of the products winning awards at the conference will be ‘LOVR’, which is described as ‘the world’s first truly circular leather substitute. Unlike most ‘plant-based’ leather substitutes, LOVR contains no petrochemicals. Says TechTextil: leather subsitutes have “two problems… […]
A recent paper in Nature has demonstrated that electronic textiles can be made to detect many different types of contact in one. Researchers from China have created a new technique to spin fibres called silk fibroin-based ionic hydrogel (SIH) fibres, which electronically respond in characteristic ways when they are in […]
The 5th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportuities, Innovations and Applications of Electronic Textiles was a 3-day event held in Ghent, Belgium. Some of the highlights included a helical fibre stretch sensor, beautiful, gesture-controlled illuminated textiles from the Royal College of Art, and a research project which demonstrated that garment-embedded […]