Smart Textiles Design Lab Blog at The Swedish School of Textiles

Sample collections in and for artistic research?
Sample collections in and for artistic research?

The Swedish Research Council’s annual symposium on artistic research 2015 The committee for artistic research at the Swedish Research Council’s annual symposium on artistic research will take place on 25-26 November this year. The location is Malmö and the host is the arts faculty at Lund University. The conference will be held at the Inter […]

Plant dye at Island
Plant dye at Island

Linda Worbin have explore traditional plant dyes from Gudrun Bjarnadóttirs in her studio in Borgarfjörður, Iceland. Gudrun is also a teacher of botany at the Agricultural University of Iceland. The objective with the workshop is to learn old traditional plant dyeing techniques, and place / develop them in a contemporary perspective to question our relationship […]

Isabel Cabral
Isabel Cabral

Isabel CABRAL, Ph.D. Student University of Minho, Guimarães, School of Engineering, Department of Textile Engineering Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal Phone: +(351) 967787308 Fax: +(351) 253510293 E-mail: diascabral@gmail.com

Dynamic Light Filters
Dynamic Light Filters

Dynamic Light Filters   Isabel Cabral is a textile engineering PhD student at the University of Minho in Portugal, under supervision of Professor António Pedro Souto and Professor Linda Worbin.   With a background in industrial design, her research proposes to explore smart textiles as a medium to enhance and evolve physical and immaterial dimensions, […]

Formable Knits
Formable Knits

  Rikka Talman The project focused on exploring in what way a textile´s expression could change and how these dynamic qualities affect the way the textiles are manipulated. Knitted fabrics were developed with the aim of leaving their dynamic qualities open for other designers to work further with. Three fabrics with qualities ranging from subtle […]

Katharina Bredies
Katharina Bredies

postdoctoral researcher from 2014 to 2016 in the research project “Design, Textiles and Sustainability”, funded by Västragötalandsregionen Smart Textile Design Lab The Swedish School of Textiles Contact: katharina.bredies [at] hb.se