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3D clothing designer creates NFT collections
June 1st, 2025
A piece from Danit Peleg’s first 3D-printed clothing collection, Liberty Leading the People. The collection won the BIG SEE Fashion Design Award 2021 and featured the first item Peleg listed for purchase in her non-fungible token fashion store. Image: Danit Peleg/Daria Ratiner Danit Peleg, an Israeli 3D clothing designer, believes that 3D printing is the […]
Innovations in 3D-printed shoes, materials to combat waste
February 1st, 2025
The ecological impact of footwear is on the minds of researchers and designers working in 3D printing. Here are three projects in progress. Modular kids’ shoes that ‘grow’ Children can outgrow shoes a couple of times per year, so the adaptable design, especially of the sole, could prevent a lot of discarded product. Image: Michele […]
Lignin used for 3D-printed glove grip coating
February 1st, 2025
Printed textiles with a lignin coating for use in gloves, developed by researchers at the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF). Image: DITF Researchers at the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF) have developed a durable, flexible lignin-based biopolymer grip coating that can be applied via 3D printing to […]
3D-printing textile filament from Asahi Kasei and Aquafil
February 1st, 2025
A vase made of cellulose nanofiber. Image: Asahi Kasei Japanese technology company Asahi Kasei and Italian manufacturer Aquafil S.p.A. are combining efforts and products to develop a novel material for 3D printing. The material will combine Aquafil’s ECONYL® polymer made from chemically recycled polyamide 6, also known as nylon 6, and Asahi Kasei’s cellulose nanofiber, […]
3D printing in textiles: The future is (almost) now
February 1st, 2025
The 3D printed “pixels” from Stratasys’ machines can be created to have iridescence and lenticular effects. While companies in arenas ranging from jewelry to aerospace are now familiar with using 3D printing to fabricate parts and other objects, “3D printing textiles is a newer concept,” says Jack Forman, doctoral student at the Center for Bits […]
Sustainable 3D-printed fashion created with biomaterial
June 1st, 2024
In collaboration with Brigitte Kock, a 3D fashion designer, Balena created a collection of 3D-printed garments, including trousers with cutouts on the side and a cropped shirt with open back panels. The pants become more transparent at the bottom and more opaque at the top to allow someone to easily wear them out on the […]
3D-printed seaweed polymer cleans up wastewater pollutants
January 1st, 2024
UC San Diego researchers have developed a “living material,” made of a seaweed-based polymer combined with genetically engineered bacteria, that could offer a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to clean pollutants, such as textile dye, from water. Image: UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering/David Baillot Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created […]
3D printing may be the future of footwear manufacturing
August 31st, 2023
Elastium, a startup based in the United Arab Emirates, and the Munich, Germany-based startup Sneakprint, have harnessed 3D printing technology to manufacture shoes. Elastium-1 sneaker. Photo: Elastium Elastium has developed sneakers using fused granulate fabrication 3D printing technology, a method of 3D printing that uses raw materials in granule, or pellet, form rather than filament […]
Composites manufactured efficiently
January 1st, 2023
At the Advanced Textiles Conference in October in Charlotte, N.C., Anil Kircalianli, head of automation for Orbital Composites (OC), discussed the important role of textiles as a driver for sustainability, particularly in footwear design. Kircalianli argued that the company’s use of 3D printing and robotic manufacturing has created a more sustainable and efficient means of […]
Textiles and 3D technology
December 1st, 2020
Produced through the 3D printing process known as solid deposit modeling (SDM), Nike’s Flyprint shoes were designed to help distance runners achieve peak performance. The company has been 3D printing textile uppers for its Flyprint shoes since 2018. Photo: Nike. 3D printed textiles can be viable in the industry. by Kony Chatterjee and Tushar K. […]