Research

T3XTILES.1LYR

Single-layer 3D printed textile samples where the toolpath itself tunes both mechanical behavior and surface pattern.

The toolpath becomes the design variable here: how the pattern spreads across the surface changes both the mechanical properties of the piece and its look. These samples mainly show that aesthetics and mechanics can be tuned in the same printed pass.

Raking light across overlapping printed meshes, each square running a different lattice pattern.

Four printed mesh squares fanned out on the workbench, no two patterns alike.

A dense black sample shot flat on white, its surface bristling like coarse cloth.

Macro of that black surface, thousands of tiny loops catching points of light.

White mesh square with a denser diamond at its centre, laid on grey boards.

A finer mesh square seen at an angle, a small tight diamond at its middle.

Large mesh of interlocking links, sunlight washing a bright band across its middle.

A printed mesh curled over on itself, throwing its own pattern as a shadow.

The same mesh against black, its rows of flattened links reading as one even weave.

The mesh lifted into the light, its shadow printing a sharper version of the weave.

Form #1 T3XTILES.2LYRS