Bioactuated Tapestry is an installation that explores how biomaterials and textile craft unfold multiple temporalities of interaction. Structured in three zones, the installation moves from milk-based bioplastic samples that change shape quickly when misted, to a Sample Book that documents iterations of bioplastic integration into weaving, to a woven tapestry that changes shape slowly in response to humidity in the surrounding space. Together, these zones demonstrate how interaction can emerge from material behavior shaped through biomaterial formulation and, when woven, through structure. The work foregrounds biomaterial agency, weaving, and situated sustainability grounded in sourcing, fabrication, and practices of care. Through this convergence of biodesign and textile craft, Bioactuated Tapestry aligns with the TEI theme of Resurgence and Convergence, highlighting how material-led practices reconnect material experimentation, environmental attunement, and embodied ways of knowing.

The ability to create a wide and varied set of interactive textiles depends on the materials that one has available. Currently, the range of yarns that can be used to bring interactivity to textiles is greatly limited, especially considering the diversity available in non-conductive yarns. This pictorial traces a design journey into hand spinning that seeks to address this limitation and contributes samples of techniques and materials that could be used to create conductive yarns along with reflection on design methods that enabled us to explore a wider range of aesthetic expressions. We advocate for an approach that reconnects with the textiles in e-textiles, embraces divergence, and prioritizes the material rather than function as the driver of a design concept. We offer pathways for readers and researchers to continue this exploration within varied domains and practices.

Woven textiles are increasingly a medium through which HCI is inventing new technologies. Key challenges in integrating woven textiles in HCI include the high level of textile knowledge required to make effective use of the new possibilities they afford and the need for tools that bridge the concerns of textile designers and concerns of HCI researchers. This paper presents AdaCAD, a parametric design tool for designing woven textile structures. Through our design and evaluation of AdaCAD we found that parametric design helps weavers notate and explain the logics behind the complex structures they generate. We discuss these finding in relation to prior work in integrating craft and/or weaving in HCI, histories of woven notation, and boundary object theory to illuminate further possibilities for collaboration between craftspeople and HCI practitioners.

As HCI continues to integrate craft techniques into its repertoire, tensions emerge between what is new and known, knowledge that resides in communities and histories rather than individuals, and how to transfer between the written word and material know-how. We explore these tensions through the process of writing, instructing, and create an introduction to weaving force sensors. The goal of this project is two fold: first, to help HCI understand the potential that a deep understanding of weave structures can hold for advancing our field, and second, to explore how a pictorial might support formats that have long been used for communicating craft knowledge.