Seaweed Could Help Clean Up Our Dirty Garment Industry
Fashion and clothing is one of the least sustainable industries in the world. Could these biofabrics be the answer? Continue reading Seaweed Could Help Clean Up Our Dirty Garment Industry
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Fashion Mannequin Is Fiberglass Reinforced Paper Craft
[Leah and Ailee] run their own handmade clothing business and needed a mannequin to drape their creations onto for display and photography. Since ready-made busts are quite pricey and also didn’t really suit their style, [Leah] set out to make her own mannequins by cleverly combining paper craft techniques and fiberglass.
[Leah] started by looking for suitable 3D models as a base for her design. The right one was found on opengameart.com, loaded into Blender, and underwent a few serious modifications including heavy use of the decimate tool before it became a stylish low-poly bust.
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A Teen Proposed a Hijab Emoji Because She Just Wanted One that Looked Like Her
Unicode has been moving to make emojis more diverse and inclusive. Continue reading A Teen Proposed a Hijab Emoji Because She Just Wanted One that Looked Like Her
Weather-aware Shoe Rack Helps You Get Ready for the Day
If you’re anything like us, your complete shoe collection consists of a pair of work boots and a pair of ratty sneakers that need to wait until the next household haz-mat day to be retired. But some people have a thing for shoes, and knowing which pair is suitable for the weather on any given day is such a bother. And that’s the rationale behind this Raspberry Pi-driven weather-enabled shoe rack.
The rack itself is [zealen]’s first woodworking project, and for a serious shoeaholic it’s probably too small by an order of magnitude. But for proof of principle it does …read more
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Filling The Automation Gap In Garment Manufacturing
Even in this age of wearable technology, the actual fabric in our t-shirts and clothes may still be the most high-tech product we wear. From the genetically engineered cotton seed, though an autonomous machine world, this product is manufactured in one of the world’s largest automation bubbles. Self-driving cotton pickers harvest and preprocess the cotton. More machines blend the raw material, comb it, twist and spin it into yarn, and finally, a weaving machine outputs sheets of spotless cotton jersey. The degree of automation could not be higher. Except for the laboratories, where seeds, cotton fibers, and yarns are tested …read more
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Dodging Stray Bullets in Lebanon With The World’s First Bulletproof Headscarf
As a way to avoid casualties in celebratory gunfire, Beirut designer Salim Kadi has made a keffiyeh from Kevlar, the same plastic material used for bulletproof vests. Continue reading Dodging Stray Bullets in Lebanon With The World’s First Bulletproof Headscarf
This Fashion Designer Wants to Save the Lives of Refugees
Angela Luna is a New York fashion student who has created a series of waterproof outerwear that morphs into floating jackets, sleeping bags and tents. Continue reading This Fashion Designer Wants to Save the Lives of Refugees