The Conductive Felting Fibre (10g) lets you create touch-sensitive buttons, interactive textiles, and pressure sensors, making it ideal for wearable electronics, felted controllers, and capacitive touch projects.
This conductive fibre is super interesting! It's great for felting and could also be spun into yarn if that's your thing.
We tested many different fibre thicknesses for needle felting and found that this one (20um fibre thickness) is the most pleasurable to work with. Use about 0.2g of the stuff to make a felt touch button suitable for use with the MaKey MaKey or capacitive touch sensing circuit. Make felt controllers or felt buttons onto an existing wool sweater!
You can also make a squeeze/pressure sensor with this fibre, as it becomes less resistive the more you squeeze the fibres together. Make sure to combine this fibre with a natural animal fibre (which have "scales") for best results. We think 10g is the perfect amount and will get you through several projects.
MaKey MaKey and alligator clips not included!
Features
20µm fibre thickness optimised for needle felting
Conductive fibre suitable for felting and spinning into yarn
0.2g creates a felt touch button for capacitive touch sensing circuits
Compatible with MaKey MaKey and similar touch-sensing applications
Create felt controllers or buttons directly onto wool garments
Functions as a pressure/squeeze sensor with variable resistance
Resistance decreases with increased compression
Works best when combined with natural animal fibres
