Wearable technology

In my final collection, i used a little known about electronic system called Lilypad. Its a series of small electronic pieces that you can combine with textiles to produce clothing which does things. It does very basic stuff (LEDs, buzzers etc) but with experimentation, you could do a whole bunch of stuff.

I wasn't happy with my final collection, well how it turned out, however i was happy with what i had achieved in the timescales (i changed my focus half way through and had to quickly put together my collection)

Final collection hat in progress

But now i have more time, i feel that its now the right time to revisit this idea. I am unsure as to how i can and will work with it but its sometime for sure i will try and master. I have also been getting excited about EL wire (see it in action here and here). I have some amazing ideas to test out on my return from my jollies.

So after this post, I'm heading to the studio (aka my conservatory) and I'm going to try and figure out what to do. Ill post my findings later!

Workshops

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Studio Day

Been working in my studio today and while i have plenty of things to do, i couldn't resist making a few new things. S/S13 perhaps?