INTERKNITTING

I created a knitted collection which consists of 5 garments. One garment is sound sensitive, one is motion-senstive, one is touch-sensitive, and the last two are able to synchronize to each other if the wearers are turned toward each other. Each garment’s special built in sensor is programmed to learn the wearer's behaviour or to understand better the wearer's interaction with the world. You can see the status of the interaction through the integrated LEDs on the clothes. When there is no interaction you can see a white random light effect - that's the DISCONNECTED status, when the interaction is happening the LEDs change to the blue target color, this is the CONNECTED status.

Each garment is a different entity, with the electronics - microcontrollers , sensors, conductive thread and LEDs - integrated right into the material, using a special knitted structure technique. I chose fine, traditional raw materials like merino wool, and cashmere which can protect the electronics. So in the smart material that I knitted, every pattern has a function, for example to integrate the LEDs, the sensors or conductive thread. 3 of the 5 garments are machine washed already, and all of them have been steamed.