Textile Tech: Top 5 Fabric Applications

If your idea of fabric extends no further than the image of calicos for quilting, the applications being devised for fabric can serve as an awakening. Here’s a top five of amazing uses researchers are devising for fabrics:

1. Fabric Keyboards

 (Photo: jkOnTheRun)

This idea combines fun and functionality. Besides its fun look, the keyboard also doubles as a carrying case.

2. Camera Fabric

 (Photo: MIT)

Researchers at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology have developed a mesh of light sensitive fibers that can collect images.

3. Solar Fabrics

Top Five Facebook “Fans” Sewing Tips of the Day

If you visit our Facebook page you’ll notice that we have a Sewing Tip of the Day. Fans get the chance to “like” these tips or comment on them. Sometimes the comments they make become another great sewing tip.

Here is a list of our top five tips from our Facebook fans.

Our Tip: Thread looks darker on the spool than it will on the fabric. Choose a thread a shade darker than the material you’ll be using it on.

Fan Tip 1. “I always pull a strip of the thread out and place on my fabric to check for correct color” ~ Donnette