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Does anyone know of a maker of Conductive Fabric?

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Copying my answer from http://chiphacker.com/questions/184/is-there-a-way-to-print-draw-a-circuit-on-to-clothing

See http://www.plusea.at/ for all kinds of wearable electronics, including conductive fabric, thread, etc.

How To Get What You Want by the same people has more details:

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Sparkfun are now selling conductive fabric

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  1. Less EMF has the largest selection in the States
  2. Eeonyx sells a range of high performance materials that you can order to spec.
  3. Fine Silver Products sells silver-doped fabrics
  4. How To Get What You Want gives a good overview of the known conductive fabric merchants
  5. Fashioning Technology blog should give you some inspiration

A trip to the store with a multi-meter can be enlightening. Various commonly available tapes, fabrics, gels, packages etc. are conductive.

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The Scientific Wire Co. sells knitted copper wire.

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Becky Stern sells conductive thread... perhaps you could sew that in to your fabric?

http://sternlab.org/store/

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