Rather than the fabric buttons being used to affect a switch, the patent offers that the support structures of the buttons could be made from fabric, which can contain elements to determine button ...

Tariffs will have an outsized impact on the apparel industry. It won’t be easy to move clothing assembly — or the manufacturing of fabric, buttons and zippers — to the U.S.

Apple Smart Fabric is in the Works. Apple has presented the patents in the past, including ones for making fabric buttons that are meant to be stitched to HomePods.

Citing one example that surfaced just last month, an Apple patent detailed how fabric buttons with an array of smart sensors could be applied to everyday clothing items.

Adjustable smart fabric with built-in buttons could make Apple Watch accessories smarter Malcolm Owen | Feb 18, 2020 Some iPhone-compatible gloves use conductive threads, which Apple wants to use ...

It is literally full of every type of button you could, I even found some of the cloth covered fabric buttons from the 70s." People come from far and wide to shop this button warehouse.