Speaker prototypes from conductive thread.    

  Slinky     Guitar Strings     Magnet Wire    

  The best sounding eTextile speaker design has been a coil of conductive thread glued to a silk disc. So far that is….    

  Using conductive thread I stitched a few speaker coils into a plant in my garden. Now I must listen closely……    

  Using my Nexus 5 and a travel speaker circuitboard to test three different eTextile speaker options.    

  I secured the yellow beaded speaker to a piece of white silk organza with Heat Bond. This is an iron adhesive that you can purchase at your local fabric store.      

  Using a double ended beading needle feed conductive thread thru yellow metallic seed beads to create an eTextile speaker coil which works with an MP3 player.     Coil the beaded thread to create a speaker.     Hack a circuit from a mini travel speaker, remove the speaker, and connect the eTextile speaker with alligator clips.     […]

  I liberated a sound circuit from a mini travel speaker and connected it a conductive thread speaker coil.     Detail of eTextile speaker and magnet.    

  Crochet yarn around 18 gauge aluminum wire, wind it into a coil, and using the same yarn stitch the coil together.      

  Winding conductive thread in a coil to create an eTextile speaker on a black light reactive hand-painted silk disc.