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Crafting Wearables: Blending Technology with Fashion
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Crafting Wearables: Blending Technology with Fashion

by Sibel Deren Guler, Madeline Gannon, Kate Sicchio
November 2016
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
7h 46m
English
Apress
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© Sibel Deren Guler, Madeline Gannon, and Kate Sicchio 2016

Sibel Deren Guler, Madeline Gannon and Kate Sicchio, Crafting Wearables, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1808-2_9

9. Digital Fabrication for Wearables

Sibel Deren Guler1 , Madeline Gannon2 and Kate Sicchio1

(1)Brooklyn, New York, USA

(2)Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

To integrate new materials, we sometimes have to develop new machines. For example, to use fiber optics in clothing, Harry Wainwright (who was introduced in Chapter 1) created a special machine to weave the fibers into fabric, and this enabled him to design more intricate light patterns in the fabrics. Fabrication techniques for manufacturing wearables have been mentioned in previous chapters, but this chapter takes a closer look at some of ...

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