Brigitte Kock's 3D printed textiles make us rethink design
I came across a really fascinating series from TikToks about designing a 3D printed corset with fully 3D printed connectors and all.
You can see in the TikTok embedded above, how there are cute little bullet-and-hole style connectors that tie it all together, and that's where things get really interesting. Brigitte Kock (Paraprint.io on Instagram and TikTok, and Youtube) has been working on different ways to connect 3D prints to make textiles. The different types of interlocking patterns she came up with resulted in fully 3D-printed garments with some pretty unique looks.
A post shared by Brigitte | 3D printed fashion (@paraprint.io)
The bag in the Instagram video above is completely 3D printed and really illustrates the flexibility of this design concept.
I contacted Brigitte and asked her a few questions about what she was doing.
How did you get into 3D printing?
My bachelor's degree, Industrial Design at TU/e, let us choose which "space" we wanted to work in. At every opportunity, my projects would be in "Wearable Senses", where people would embroider with conductive threads. , create kombucha shirts and other laser cut or electronic craft. One of the PhD students was working on using body data to mass-customize 3D-printed shoes. Troy (Nachtigall) had his printers in the lab and was kind enough to not only teach us how to use them, but also give us the freedom to experiment. Which, at that time, when printers were still expensive and scarce, was incredibly generous. This project sparked a fascination with 3D printing that I still pursue 7 years later - PerFlex is a service that turns measurements into a perfectly fitting bra:
Which came first for you, fashion or 3d printing?
Fashion. Recently, my mom shared this photo with me where I made a dress out of paper when I was maybe 6?
The first thing I remember clearly is a fancy green dress on my first sewing mac...
I came across a really fascinating series from TikToks about designing a 3D printed corset with fully 3D printed connectors and all.
You can see in the TikTok embedded above, how there are cute little bullet-and-hole style connectors that tie it all together, and that's where things get really interesting. Brigitte Kock (Paraprint.io on Instagram and TikTok, and Youtube) has been working on different ways to connect 3D prints to make textiles. The different types of interlocking patterns she came up with resulted in fully 3D-printed garments with some pretty unique looks.
A post shared by Brigitte | 3D printed fashion (@paraprint.io)
The bag in the Instagram video above is completely 3D printed and really illustrates the flexibility of this design concept.
I contacted Brigitte and asked her a few questions about what she was doing.
How did you get into 3D printing?
My bachelor's degree, Industrial Design at TU/e, let us choose which "space" we wanted to work in. At every opportunity, my projects would be in "Wearable Senses", where people would embroider with conductive threads. , create kombucha shirts and other laser cut or electronic craft. One of the PhD students was working on using body data to mass-customize 3D-printed shoes. Troy (Nachtigall) had his printers in the lab and was kind enough to not only teach us how to use them, but also give us the freedom to experiment. Which, at that time, when printers were still expensive and scarce, was incredibly generous. This project sparked a fascination with 3D printing that I still pursue 7 years later - PerFlex is a service that turns measurements into a perfectly fitting bra:
Which came first for you, fashion or 3d printing?
Fashion. Recently, my mom shared this photo with me where I made a dress out of paper when I was maybe 6?
The first thing I remember clearly is a fancy green dress on my first sewing mac...
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