Developed by 2023 Experimental Weaver in Residence Kathryn Walters, Animated Linen describes a series of experiments cataloging how linen fibers can be embedded into cloth such that when they are wetted, the cloth shrinks in specific and designerly ways.
Collaborators
Kathryn Walters and Karin Landahl with some publishing support by Laura Devendorf and the Unstable Design Lab.
Publications
Kathryn Walters, Laura Devendorf, and Karin Landahl. 2024. Animated Linen: Using High-twist Hygromorphic Yarn to Produce Interactive Woven Textiles. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1177–1191. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3662146