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Kathryn Walters
Kathryn Walters is a Ph.D. researcher at The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås. She learned to weave at the Handweavers and Spinners Guild of Victoria (Australia), before being introduced to power-loom weaving during her studies at SST. She sees industrial weaving as an extension of weaving as craft. Her research seeks to develop non-electronic smart textiles, through exploring emergent behaviour arising from the combination of material properties and textile structures, where textiles are seen as systems with responsive properties. She has developed new methods for producing three-dimensional loom-woven textiles based on exploring contrasting shrinking and stiff materials.
Contact: University of Borås, Högskolan i Borås, S-501 90 Borås, Sweden.