Stitched rows with clip leads on both ends points at the resistive layout, and it carries one confound worth planning around before the enclosure gets pretty.

Stretch changes the resistance of the yarn itself. A pad like that cannot separate a press from the fabric being pulled, and the baseline drifts once the room turns humid.

Scanning one row at a time while the rest stay high-impedance keeps a press out of its neighbours. Without that, one finger reads as a phantom touch on the row beside it.

Capacitive sensing on a yarn electrode drops the strain term, but then the dielectric and the shielding decide the signal quality. On a garment, the part that fails first is rarely the sensor.