Designing Dynamic Textiles

Linda Worbin is a doctoral candidate in Textiles and Interaction Design at the Swedish School of Textiles in Boras, Sweden.

For the past several years, her work has focused on smart and interactive textiles developing beautiful thermochromic textile displays to electroluminescent pillows and textiles.

You can find some of her textile experiments below. Much of her explorations use thermochromic (heat sensitive) inks to create dynamic patterns.

Textile Dimensions

Rather Boring

Grafitti Cloth

Fabrication Bag

My favorite project is the Fabrication Bag. The Fabrication Bag is designed with a pattern using different layers of thermochromic, ordinary pigment colors and heating elements, turning the textile pattern into a dynamic display that presents incoming calls messages.