Installation by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui (b.1944) at the Brooklyn Museum (2013) | via Garrett Ziegler

NEON has realized an inhabitable sculpture formed from 1800 pairs of skin-colored tights arranged in a grid to form six identical sides.

Meet Jacqueline Surdell. She is an interdisciplinary artist working with the histories, materials, and processes of fiber and painting. Read more from our Q&A with Jacqueline here:

TOUCH ME WALLPAPER (2003 - ongoing) by Zena Berzina. HINT: Touch sensitive walls! "Touch Me Wallpaper is an interactive sensory-appeal textile membrane that changes color in response to environmental or human heat. People are invited to interact with the wallpaper by touching it and crating their own bodily heat patterns, which are temporarily recorded on the wall until they fade away completely."* *from the book Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour.

Tremulous alternate view

Still reeling (and healing) after unveiling the Woven Wall, a reeaaally huge interactive weaving collaboration with @slabwares. We created…

on exhibition now in new york, the experimental textile turns white in response to being touched by users, and can play back images and animations via a web interface.

Eindhoven-based designer Richard Vijgen has created a tapestry from thermochromic yarn that visualises the Wi-Fi signals emitted by smart devices.