Loe Feijs and Marina Toeters

fPDP is a novel textile pattern: fractal Pied de Poule. fPDP is applied in the design of a men's jacket. The pattern is generated by a recursive algorithm in Processing, post-processed in Adobe Illustrator and cut with a Speedy300 laser cutter at TU/e. The jack was designed and welded in the fashion technology studio by-wire.net. In earlier work we analyzed the mathematics behind the classical Pied de Poule, also called Houndstooth with tools such as tessellation theory, compact Processing programs and compass Logo. There exists a classical pied de poule for each N =1,2,3 etc. Taking inspiration from the Cantor set, and using the analysis of the classical pattern, we found a family of elegant new fractal Pied de Poules.

Drapely-o-lightment is a skirt designed around the themes of drapability and light. The light sources used are 6 OLEDs, integrated in a fabric consisting out of over 2500 patches. The OLEDs are square, the triangle patches provide drapability. The transitional quadrilateral to triangular tessellation is obtained as the Voronoi diagram of a set of points on a special grid. Drapely-o-lightenment was shown at Architextiles in Tilburg, Place-it in Berlin, Gouden Geesten in Utrecht, Pretty Smart Textiles Ronse, Belgium and the pop-up fashion show of Amsterdam Fashion week. At the Bridges art exhibition it will be put on a mannequin where the skirt is interactive (Arduino inside) and the OLEDs display either scanning behavior or heart beat.