eTextiles & Wearables

Merge technology and fashion to make creations you can really wear. Learn to tell a your personal story using circuits, cloth and lights with MakeFashions adventure.

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Storytelling with Fashion

Tell Your Story through Fashion Tech 10-30 min

Everyone has a story to tell and everyone wears clothing that tells part of that story.

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What You Wear Tells a Story 10-30 min

Start campers thinking about the stories they can tell with fashion.

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What's Your Story Right Now? 10-30 min

Look at what you are wearing. What does it tell about you?

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Elements of Fashion Design 30-45 min

When thinking about fashion design, there are four elements that are important to consider in order to tell the story; color, line, shape and texture.

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Using Circuits for Fashion

The Simplest Circuit 10-30 min

Lights can help tell the story or they can overtake the story, it is all in the design.

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Paper Circuit Introduction 10-30 min

Use a template to make your first paper circuits.

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Paper Circuit Ring 10-30 min

Use copper tape and an LED to make a ring that lights up!

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Paper Circuits as Design Tool 10-30 min

Use a template of a hoodie to use to design with lights.

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Wearable Copper Circuits 15-30 min

How can you create a copper circuit on your arm?

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Touch Circuit Fairy Lights 45-90 min

Hack Fairy Wire into a touch activated circuit.

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Light Diffusion 10-30 min

When we think about Color, Line, Shape and Texture in relation to lights we need to consider diffusion.

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Using Elements of Fashion Design

Client Stories 30-45 min

By becoming acquainted with other peoples' stories it aids in formulating their own story.

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Croquis 30-45 min

Use the Design Notes and templates to ideate, clarify, explain and show your ideas.

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Tell My Story with the Elements of Fashion 30-45 min

Now that campers have practiced designing for someone else, it is time for them to create their own story.

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MakeFashion Edu Design Process 30-90 min.

You can use a design process to help come up with designs based on personal stories.

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Design Challenges

Crazy Headwear Challenge 90-180 min.

Now it is time to get 3 dimensional and make a fashion tech piece to wear!

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Trashion Fashion 120+ min

For this project we are going to the reduce, reuse, recycle fashion extreme.

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Super Belt 60-90 min

This superbelt is a way to use the touch-activated Fairy Light Circuit! If you don’t have one of those, find the instructions here. We apply the Fairy Lights to a belt, and set it to turn on when the wearer performs a superhero stance!

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Light Up Underskirt 60-90 min

This underskirt allows you to build a basic lit undergarment that you can simply wear under any outfit you create, and customize with colors and patterns. You can build it at any point in your project schedule, even before your project officially starts!

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Light Diffusion Box 45-6 0min

A diffusion box helps designers see what lights will do in combination with various fabrics.

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VAL Hatband 60-90 min

Make any hat tell a story with this adjustable, light up hatband! Want to warn people? How about flashing red and blue lights? Want to invoke calmness? Try fading blues and greens. Code your LED strip to spread your message. You could also put fairy lights in this hatband and it would look great!

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Beacon Bucket Hat 60-90 min

This is a hat with a story and a purpose! It also uses recycled materials that have a no-stitch option in case you don’t have any needles. Come read the short story behind the hat and see how fashion tech is not just for story telling, but also for solving problems!

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Exhibiting Student Work

Runway Shows 120+ min

The joy and excitement of seeing your creation, your story, what you advocate walk down the runway as the audience applauds is very affirming for students.

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Virtual Maker Exhibition 120+ min.

We have found Virtual Reality is of the most interactive and successful methods of presenting the work remotely.

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