Old skills, new product
As a child Dr Franz Freudenthal visited indigenous communities in the mountains of Bolivia with his doctor grandmother. On these trips she would quote a snippet of Rudyard Kipling “Something hidden. Go and find it.
additive manufacture
we think this includes much more than 3D printing. Being textile nerds, we think flat knitting counts too.
A means of producing an item where material is always added and no material is removed to create the final shape and form.
Plastic built by food poisoning (sort of)
Apparently bacteria can be engineered to produce thermoplastics….
Taking the hard edges off 3D printing
3D printing can seem a magical way to produce an object as if from nowhere.
Pickled fabric? Not quite, but it is grown in a jar.
Designer Suzanne Lee has produced (and continues to develop) a fabric that comes from a zoogleal mat formed during the fermentation of a sweetened tea. The fabric that is produced is still made up of cellulose (like cotton, linen, viscose and rayon) but it comes… Read More »Pickled fabric? Not quite, but it is grown in a jar.
Knitting as the first additive manufacturing
Interesting to chat to Hal Watts from Unmade at a reception for The 1851 Commission (an amazing organisation who funded both Hal and me to study at the RCA) about knitting as the earliest form of Additive Manufacture. In knitting you take a continuous material… Read More »Knitting as the first additive manufacturing
Did I shrink my jumper?
Here at Thread, we relish visits to manufacturers (we’ve even been known to visit factories when we’re on holiday).
3D knitted spikes by Nike
The upper of the Nike Flyknit is like no other trainer or spike.
The end of the seam? 3D printed garments on the catwalk at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2013
A series of garments were shown in Iris Van Herpen’s collection at Paris Fashion Week S/S 2013 that were 3D printed in a single piece using Materialse’s Mammoth Sterolithography machines.