Embroidery kinds

Several efforts to create prototypes of wearable functional devices have been made in the last years. Most of them consider the approach of joining conventional off-the-shelf electronic devices to fabrics, such as microcontrollers, LED s, optical fibres and all kinds of sensors, especially electrodes for ECG measurement. The consolidated textile technology for integrating conductive yams into knitted or woven fabrics and the implementation of sensors through embroidery has encouraged their use as suitable means for connection, data communication and power transfer. 

Embroidery is a textile-finishing method that can be used to apply a given yam material to a textile substrate in a defined geometry (Bosowski et al., 2013). This type of pattern is first defined and punched in software. Following these definitions, it is then converted into embroidery machine code. Three kinds of embroidery methods are... 

Figure 4.23 Two kinds of textile electrodes with different geometries obtained by double lock stitch—standard embroidery.

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