Lush! When I got started in wearables I had difficulty finding conductive fabrics to play with and use. It was difficult to get anything but ripstop style. Now I've found lovely gems like this Pure Silver Coated Nylon Tulle Mesh.
This is a variety of 10 x 10 cm or 20 x 20cm square
- Silver mesh fiber stretchy
- Sheer, tulle fabric
- Soft, very easily sewn, folded, pleated etc
This knit woven conductive fabric is plated with real Silver. Use small pieces on the tips of gloves or in any soft circuit situation where you need a bit of stretch. This highly conductive fabric has a resistance of less than 1 ohm per foot in any direction across the textile. It can be used to make soft keypads and capacitive touch sensors, as well as soft "squeeze" switches.
The 100% pure silver fiber fabric contains pure silver and nylon. It is the pure silver ion plating on the nylon.
- Surface resistance : below 0.03 ohm
- Material: 100% silver fiber
- Type: mesh knitting
- Shielding: RF & LF Electromagnetic fields
- Frequency range: 3MHz to 38GHz
- Damping (dB): 55-65 dB
- Color: silver
- Air peramble
- Soft & Stretch
Shown in images as part of our bundle (on top of fabrics, so you can see the sheer nature of it).
Please note that these are all approximate sizes. These are all cut by hand and there will be some discrepancies.
If you experiment with this, we'd love to see your project photos!
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** Poor water quality will damage Silver. In particular, Sulphur, high Fluoride, and low pH will react strongly with Silver and destroy conductivity and shielding performance.
This is washable, cold water recommended, no bleach.
Test your tap water on a small fabric swatch before washing your fabric or garment:
1- soak a small fabric swatch in tap water for 1 hour.
2- look for color change in the water or swatch, especially blackening.
3- air dry the swatch and check for conductivity (by touching an Ohm meter to 2 points on the fabric)
If color change or loss of conductivity occurs, DO NOT use tap water to wash/rinse your fabric, use distilled or deionized, reverse osmosis water. Washing will eventually degrade Silver coating and shielding performance. Discoloration over time is normal.
