Design

TEXTILE LIGHTING

Mentor Lighting Solutions

The diversity of our customers’ ideas means we are always facing new challenges to create innovative products using light. There is an ever greater fusion of functional and emotional aspects, with new functions emerging and sought-after lighting solutions becoming more and more dynamic. This is bringing about whole new customer experiences. By using alternative textile designs and lighting scenarios, the technology of textile lighting systems offers major advantages for realizing these innovative lighting solutions, while adding a plethora of exciting and useful features to the range of design possibilities. We would like to show you a few highlights here. Be inspired.

LARGE AREAS, FREE-FORM SHAPES AND DYNAMIC LIGHT

Textile lighting solutions are absolutely perfect for illuminating large areas, for free-form shapes and for achieving dynamic light. Even though the term “textile lighting systems” comes from the fact that a textile base material is used as the light guide, rather than from the systems’ use in textile applications, their incredible flexibility makes them particularly well suited for integrating light into textiles. But that’s not all: as they allow for easy assembly and draping, i.e. they can be folded into (almost) any shape, textile lighting systems provide designers with new design options in non-textile products too, and give developers greater flexibility when faced with complicated installation situations where other technologies reach their limits.

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The possibilities for using product-integrated textile lighting systems are incredibly varied. Examples include door panels, seats, cockpits, footwells or boots of cars, lorries or buses, trains and boats; however, they can also be used in wall and machine coverings, device panels, upholstered furniture and clothing. This allows textile spaces to be backlit for decorative purposes or for branding using logos, for example. Guide or safety functions are also possible, for example if clothing is to be actively illuminated rather than just reflective. Other exciting applications are lighting in piping and edging, light tracers in textiles and perforated leather backlighting.

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Individualisation AND SITUATIONAL LIGHTING

Products can be customised easily thanks to RGB-LEDs. The same piece of hardware can have a whole range of different product versions with an RGB coloured light solution – controlled purely by software. This can neatly resolve the conflict between standardising products to drive down costs and allowing for individual product versions. In addition to customisation, another possibility is that coloured light can be adjusted according to the ambience or controlled automatically.

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DEAD FRONT EFFECTS

When light-permeable textiles are used as a cover material in textile lighting solutions, dead front effects are possible. This means patterns, symbols or text are only visible when the lighting is on; otherwise, only the unilluminated textile can be seen. This allows product design and communication to be adjusted according to the situation.

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DAY AND NIGHT

When a light-impermeable cover material is used, such as leather, the light can be emitted through perforations. This opens up a huge range of design options – and necessities too. As the perforations and their background are visible even when the light is off, two surface statuses need to be created: day and night, or light on and light off.