This illustrates how to use malleable conductive materials and office supplies to make your own potentiometer any size you like.

Most sensing applications of e-textiles use switching, piezoresistivity or optics for direct touch sensing. This instructable shows you how to start exploring another approach - capacitive sensing to measure touch and proximity. It is based on the easy-to-use, cheap capacitance sensing chip evaluation board from Atmel/Qtouch and takes only minutes to create.

The basic design pattern for shunt-mode pressure sensing with piezo resistive materials is illustrated with fabric.

A second sensor improves on this design by interdigitating the conductors.

A fabric pressure/touch sensor you can build yourself in seconds.