Swatch Making

in progress

intro

Making swatches for e-textiles.

The goal is to provide examples for simple and more advanced circuits on fabric.

The possibilities to make "soft" versions of electronic components like switches and battery holders.

preperation

Table with tools

Putting a special spool with conductive thread inside the sewing machine.

Lock Machine

Table with swatches

tools

Machines

• Sewing machine
• lock machine
• soldering station

• scissors
• needles
• stitch undo tool

electronics

• leds
• coin cell batteries

materials

• non conductive materials
• conductive materials
• vlisofix plus aluminium foil

ideas

• fabric battery holder
• making a circuit
• connecting a LED
• making a textile switch

results

The first swatch is trying out the conductive thread, as can be seen, in plain stitching, when the stitch length is too small, the stitch gets irregular at this fabric.