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📣 maayank

Can you 3D print clothing?


I'm talking day-to-day garments here - shirts, pants, dresses, etc.

What's the current state of this use-case?


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If you wear traditional clothing from many ethnic groups that is based on wrapping large rectangles of cloth in various ways (togas, saris, etc.), traditional machine looms suffice.

There are already circular looms, which produce tubes, so some kinds of dresses are possible but shirts would be difficult and pants right out.

I'm mostly posting this to discover if I'm wrong, but I'd think 3D printing materials are all currently such that you could print clothing-shaped objects, but nothing you would actually wish to wear outside a photo shoot.