Literature

Unfortunately there isn’t a lot of critical literature on e-textiles and wearables. But it is an active research area and new books come out regularly. Here some pointers for more design based books with some criticality:

Gesture

Interactive Sound

Electronic Textiles

• Cork, C. R. (2015). Conductive fibres for electronic textiles. In Electronic Textiles: Smart Fabrics and Wearable Technology (1st Edition, pp. 3–20).

Wearables

• Ryan, S. E. (2014). Garments of Paradise: wearable discourses in the digital age. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

• Schwartzman, M. (2011). See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception. London: Black Dog Publishing Limited.

Crafts

• Sennett, R. (2008). The Craftsman. London: Allen Lane.