“…E-textiles research presents a pathway for combining such electronic functionality with textiles of different materials (natural/synthetic or organic/inorganic fibres) [4][5][6], structures (knitted, wovens and nonwovens, calendered, etc) [7][8][9][10][11], and surface finish [12][13][14] while preserving the inherent physical properties that made textiles desirable and versatile materials. So far, the research literature shows that e-textiles are produced by fusing a variety of functional materials such as electrically conductive films [15,16], piezoelectric films [17,18], and thermo/photochromic films [19] with the textiles using any or a combination of (a) rapid prototyping and additive manufacturing processes such as 3D printing [20], ink-jet printing [21], spray-coating [22] and dispenser printing [23] for low-throughput manufacturing, (b) microfabrication processes based on thin-film materials [24], and flexible 1D filaments/yarns [25] and, (c) traditional manufacturing processes within the textile industry (e.g.…”