Gold tooled e-textile circuits on bookcloth
Gold tooled e-textile circuits on bookcloth
Gold tooling is the process of applying gold leaf to the bookcloth or leather of a book’s cover and is a long established technique within the book arts, an artistic field that encompasses a vast array of works, both practical and expressive, each centred around the book. Experimentation found that applied gold leaf has sufficiently low resistance ( 0.24 Ω/□), to be construction. While soldering proved difficult, conductive epoxy combined with an adhesive underfill was electrically and mechanically sufficient for mounting components. This introduces the possibility of adding interactive elements to a discipline in which novel forms and functionality are common themes.
Book arts, e-textile circuits, gold tooling
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Greig, Tom
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Beeby, Stephen
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Tudor, John
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Torah, Russel
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Yang, Kai
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14 March 2025
Greig, Tom
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Beeby, Stephen
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Yang, Kai
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Abstract
Gold tooling is the process of applying gold leaf to the bookcloth or leather of a book’s cover and is a long established technique within the book arts, an artistic field that encompasses a vast array of works, both practical and expressive, each centred around the book. Experimentation found that applied gold leaf has sufficiently low resistance ( 0.24 Ω/□), to be construction. While soldering proved difficult, conductive epoxy combined with an adhesive underfill was electrically and mechanically sufficient for mounting components. This introduces the possibility of adding interactive elements to a discipline in which novel forms and functionality are common themes.
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Accepted/In Press date: 2024
Published date: 14 March 2025
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E-textiles 2024: 6th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles, Fraunhofer Forum, Berlin, Germany, 2024-11-19 - 2024-11-21
Keywords:
Book arts, e-textile circuits, gold tooling
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Local EPrints ID: 499385
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/499385
PURE UUID: 2bca209d-438f-4220-a170-0e73bb82d480
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Date deposited: 18 Mar 2025 17:51
Last modified: 23 Apr 2025 02:10
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Tom Greig
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Stephen Beeby
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John Tudor
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Russel Torah
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