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Curtains you read with your fingertips

Tech From Here: NL · Dutch Design Week 2026

The work this post covers and every source it draws on, each linked to the original.

The workTactile Notation (Svenja Bremen), on the Dutch Design Week 2026 programme ddw.nl

Other sources

  1. Table 14.1) openstax.org
  2. Braille Authority of North America, Size and Spacing of Braille Characters brailleauthority.org
  3. Soft memories textiles as potential memory (ddw.nl) ddw.nl
  4. Jury selects 3 young talents to display innovative textiles at heimtextil 2024 (hometextilestoday.com) hometextilestoday.com
  5. Heimtextil university contest making young talents globally visible (textileworld.com) textileworld.com
  6. Die preistraeger der wilhelm lorch stiftung 2024 svenja bremen eine stoff kollektion die beim erinnern hilft 244676 (textilwirtschaft.de) textilwirtschaft.de

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
Pale silk curtains hang in folds, printed with rows of small raised marks in orange, blue and purplePhoto: Svenja BremenMuseum or journal record
Slide 2
Close view of a silk curtain with wavy rows of short orange marks and a few blue onesPhoto: Svenja BremenMuseum or journal record
Slide 3
Diagram of fingertip skin in section: a tactile (Meissner) corpuscle just under the epidermis and Merkel cells at its base, each with a nerve fiberImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawn. Checked against OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology 2e, section 14.1, Sensory Perception (light touch is transduced by tactile (Meissner) corpuscles, found in the papillary dermis, especially in the fingertips and lips; Merkel cells in the stratum basale sense low-frequency vibration; Table 14.1), read 28 Oct 2026Museum or journal record
Slide 4
Diagram of one six-dot braille cell, with the spacing between two dots marked as 2.3 to 2.5 mm, dot base 1.5 to 1.6 mm, and 6.1 to 7.6 mm between neighboring cellsImage: RN Collins studio, code-drawnMuseum or journal record
Slide 5
A pale curtain in soft folds, covered in rows of tiny purple marksPhoto: Svenja BremenMuseum or journal record
Ring frame
Lacquered wooden bobbin, Rijksmuseum (BK-2009-76)Frame: Rijksmuseum, PD, croppedMuseum or journal record

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