3D Printed Fashion Line

An Israeli grad student has created what she claims is the very first fashion line fabricated on consumer-grade 3D printers. And while I’m certainly not ready for lattice-structured sheer pants, this could point the way to the future of homemade clothing.

Danit Peleg created her the fashion line as her graduate project entirely on 3D printers in her home. She printed the clothes using FilaFlex filament and Witbox home printers over the course of 2,000 hours. The clothes were created as her final project at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel.

According to an interview on ChannelWeb:

“I really enjoyed the fact that I could create without intermediaries; I could design my own textiles and manufacture my own clothes, all from my own home,” Peleg said. “I didn’t have to go buy cloth that someone else chose to sell – I could make my own … I think this is just the beginning. As technologies evolve, we will soon all be printing our own clothes at home.”

She spent months researching materials before settling on FilaFlex. She also got help from the TechFactory Plus 3D printing laboratory in Tel Aviv. She created patterns using Optitex software, and then created digital models in Blender to produce 3D print files.

Using Andreas Bastian’s Mesostructured Cellular Materials as inspiration, she designed the patterns to create her own flexible textiles. Each of the five pieces took nearly 17 days to complete.

You can learn more about the process in the video below.

Source: Mashable