FOC Freedom of Creation

 

Rapid Manufactured (RM) textiles have opened a new frontier of possibilities for the production of textiles in the future. Instead of producing textiles by the meter, then cutting and sewing them together into final products, the concept has the ability to make

needle and thread one day obsolete. After several years of research in software, materials and surface quality, the first commercial products were launched for the

public by Freedom of Creation (FOC) in 2005.

FOC, Amsterdam-based design consultancy are pioneers in 3D printing, and recently showed the collection of 3D printed textiles and pieces woven in 3D-printed fabrics at the MOMA in New York, as part of the exhibition “Action! Design Over Time”.

 

Since there are no machines in the world made specifically to manufacture interlocking textile patterns by layers, they employed Rapid Manufacturing techniques,

such as Laser Sintering (LS) for their manufacture.