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102 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I APRIL 2022 Conductive Fibers, Conductive Yarns and/or Wires." It is the IPC's first international stan- dard for e-textiles, setting the groundwork for other e-textiles standards activities in progress. Summary is brief overview of wearable electron- ics has hopefully provided an appreciation of this branch of electronics technology that we might all agree is both very old and very new. e work of the IPC, as well as NextFlex and its partners and members—founded to pro- mote flex hybrid electronics through its dem- onstration projects, facilities, and awareness programs—has done much to inspire new and current generations of designers to appreciate has been nurturing, producing, and publish- ing industry standards for electronic intercon- nection technologies for seven decades. e standards include materials and end-product requirements as well as guidelines for design and testing of printed circuits, both rigid and flexible, for decades. As evidence of their ongo- ing dedication to the industry and to keep pace with both ongoing and recent developments such as those described here, the IPC has taken point in the development of standards for the nascent arena of e-textiles just described. In October 2019, the IPC's E-Textiles sub- committee completed its work on IPC-8921, "Requirements for Woven and Knitted Elec- tronic Textiles (E-Textiles) Integrated with Figure 6: LEDs and supporting interconnections are woven into fabric as a demonstration of e-textile technology potential. (Source: Priti Veja's 2015 thesis, Brunel University London 5 )