High-sweat wearables
Insulation that holds where perspiration would otherwise bridge two conductors.
Coating that keeps conductive yarn working
- Prevents
- Short circuits
- Substrate
- Conductive yarns
- Survives
- Textile production
Why a bare conductor fails in a garment
Two conductive yarns that touch will short. In a garment they touch constantly — at a seam, under compression, and anywhere sweat bridges the gap.
The coating insulates the strand while leaving it flexible enough to knit, weave, and wear like the yarn beside it.
What the coating protects
Prevents short circuits
Advanced coatings provide robust insulation to prevent electrical shorting even in high-sweat and high-motion environments.
Survives production
Designed to withstand the full textile manufacturing process without compromising yarn performance or manufacturability.
Keeps the hand-feel
Preserves the natural hand-feel, flexibility, and durability of the yarn for connected wearable applications.
Versatile and scalable
Compatible with a wide range of yarns and textile structures built for scale and adaptable to your application.
Where insulation matters most
Mission-critical textiles
Conductor protection for garments that cannot fail in the field.
Textile interconnect
The protective layer applied to the yarn constructions that carry the signal.
Which yarns it is applied to
- Applied per program
Conductive-yarn constructions
The coating is developed for selected conductive-yarn constructions — the orderable silver-plated and carbon yarn systems documented on the Conductive Yarns page.
How it works
Availability, performance, and evidence are confirmed for the specified construction and program.
The coating platform is in development
Scoping starts from the yarn construction you are working with and the process it has to survive.
- Status
- In development
- Evidence
- Internally characterized
- Form
- Protective layers applied to conductive yarns
How it is described technically
Our yarn coating platform uses a proprietary process to apply advanced protective layers to conductive yarns preventing short circuiting under demanding conditions while preserving the yarn's processability, flexibility, and performance.
Build with Yarn Coating
When conductive yarns must survive high-sweat, high-motion products without short-circuiting.