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3-D Printing for Clothes? The Electroloom.

June 23, 2015

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I know. It sounds like we made it up, but we promise that we didn’t.

It’s called the Electroloom and is heralded as the world’s “first desktop 3D-printer for clothes.” According to the team behind the machine, the Electroloom could bring a whole new level of sustainability and accessibility to the textile industry. All a person would need in order to create seamless fabrics with next-to-no textile waste, the team says, is “the Electroloom and a bit of [computer aided design] know how”.

In an interview for Ecouterre:

“Electroloom began with a question: What if we could design and print our own clothes?

From there, it grew into something that was constantly on our minds, about how we actually might be able to do it, until we eventually came up with a way we thought would work and started building it.”

Because the new-age loom takes raw material and translates that directly into the finished product, the carbon footprint of each produced piece could be significantly less. Think of the amount of fuel used transporting different components of the entire textile process from place to place. Now imagine if all of those steps were to take place in one single building and to, in fact, happen in only one step.

Not to mention, the team behind Electroloom have eyes on the environment, as well. As they explain in the article, “The main ingredient in [their] current prototyping material is biodegradable, and [their] materials engineer is hard at work to create blends that rely on water as a main constituent, rather than any harsher chemicals.”

Intrigued? We know we are! Want to know a bit more? Electroloom’s Joseph White speaks in the video below with Ecouterre regarding this exciting new endeavour:

What are your thoughts? Let us know what you think about this new textile technology by tweeting us @ParkersCleaners or by leaving a comment in the section below! We love to hear from you!

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