Woven Electronic Textiles
Establishing an industrial production process for manufacturing of complex e-textiles is indispensable for making wearable sensors commodity goods. This chapter introduces weaving, the most common approach to developing textiles. Weaving enables both prototyping and mass production with the same production process, and is available to embed complex circuits or specially designed device-carrying yarn into multi-layered textiles. This chapter introduces basic techniques of weaving suitable for e-textile production, materials such as conductive yarn and device-carrying yarn, and advanced techniques such as jacquard or dobby loom for implementation of complex circuits or multi-layered textiles. This chapter also provides examples of several typical applications of woven e-textiles.