#fibre print

[barksbog]

i would buy so many more shirts from artist if they were transparent on the printing process. please i need to know if it's a digital on demand print that will flake off in a few washes or a good screenprinted shirt where the print lasts longer than the shirt itself. please tell me in your product description i am begging.

[bpod-bpod]

Gut Move

Introducing helpful drugs into the body is often challenged by our own defences. Probiotics, beneficial microbes that can help to adjust the balance of our gut microbiome, may not stay around long enough to do their job as they’re quickly corroded by stomach acids and bile. Here, scientists develop structures capable of delivering probiotics orally – but with a new trick. These tiny scaffolds, about the half the size of a polo mint, are 3D-printed from a ‘bio-ink’ of cellulose, a form of dietary fibre. Fibre has many health benefits on its own, but it’s also resistant to damage from stomach acid. Instead, these tiny containers stick to the walls of the gut while they’re slowly digested. As they can be printed in a variety of shapes suited to different applications, they may be just the thing to tackle conditions like obesity or inflammatory bowel disease.

Written by John Ankers

Image from work by Yue Zhang and colleagues

Laboratory for Biomaterial and Immunoengineering, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, August 2024

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[solarpunkbusiness]

Podoactiva's shoe soles are made using hemp and flax

Over the past two years, scientists at the company Podoactiva have been creating customised shoe soles using hemp and flax.

“The idea was to print prototypes through 3D printing with sustainable materials,” said Marina Azpíroz, research and innovation manager at Podoactiva, which focuses on developing customised insoles for patients with foot health issues.

 “Natural fibres are from renewable resources, are relatively low-cost, and have specific strength and stiffness,” said Ulla Forsström, principal scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, and coordinator of the INN-PRESSME project.

Podoactiva’s insoles can be integrated in the sole itself, which adds a therapeutic function as well, according to the company, which spent two years developing its flagship product. Further, the sole has antimicrobial properties, which could help to prevent shoes from smelling, the company says.

Spanish group aitiip 3D prints the soles, while Germany’s Fraunhofer ISC supplies a specialised coating. The remainder of the shoe used in the testing process was designed using 100% recycled materials.

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[hookednbusy]

Prints of my knit vest “An act of love” - 10x12”

Soooooo happy with these :)

Vest + prints available here.

[timebe1ng]

Eco printing samples!!!!!! So obsessed with them, they’re on a bunch of different materials, from cotton to silk to linen to hemp, some were in an iron bath some weren’t, the saddening made a huge difference in a lot of them, particularly with the oak leaves. Anyways thnx for looking ily all

[disgruntled-lifeform]

Question for anyone with a 3D printer:

Do you think it possible to print the skeleton of a Drum Carder?

If so then we could just buy some carding cloth to wrap around the cylinders and have more affordable fibre prep tools.

Selling diy drum carders like they are ikea furniture

[bordelz]

Non exhaustive list of IS I had and are periodically reactivated :

Secret services and spy history (real shit only, I dislike most spy movies, fiction is not as interesting as reality in this case)

Early human history and ancient ecology

Phylogenetic

Edible plants + local plants and trees

Printing techniques

Alphabets and languages, neo languages, vocabulary

Terrariophily and aquariophily (try not to engage much 'cause I tend to spend time and money on this and after a few month I can't maintain the effort it needs)

Autogestion, collective democratie and group governance tools

Self help, risk reduction and collective care

Punk scenes, art, values and history

Body and sensations : related art, bodmod, body play, bdsm, self portrait

Theology, mythologies, biblical and catholic lore + animisms, paganims, pantheons...

Oral traditions, tales, expressions

Mecanic, industrial and heavy machinery

Fibre art

Feel free to share on these subjects ! And even on adjacent ones, I am easily enthousiastic about things other are enthousiast with !

Also you can follow me here or on my main, @ortie-pnk

[dammit-theclown]

On my knees praying for no more kitschy tarot card merch ever

[awkward-teabag]

Remember when games used to include an optional download for HD textures because 1080p was new but the developer still wanted people to have an option to used higher res textures if they had a 1080p display? We should go back to that but with 4K textures being the separate and optional download.

If you don't have a 4K display, there's not really a reason to have gigabytes worth of 4K textures on your HDD/SSD and it needlessly slows down your ability to play the game.

if your game needs 150 gigabytes of my hard drive it better come out the computer and suck me off. i hate you

[ninetwelves]

my friend’s oc’s ponysona :) and a cowprint mug rug i made

[iamtheblackbananna-blog]

Mixed media gelli print scraps on water color sheets. Definitely planning to do something else to these, but what! The possibilities are endless!

[fchsadfa]

I promise to take more and better photos of it tomorrow but! Very excited to share my Hat Full Of Sky!

We learned wet felting this afternoon and when we were told to cut a shape from the foam I didn't know what I wanted to make. I had never done wet felting before and didn't have any ideas for what you can make from it and didn't feel any inspiration.

What you can see in the first photo is the first side I laid down, picking coloured roving just because I liked the colours together. The flip side I fucked up because I didn't remember which side you end up seeing in the finished piece. So my purple and blue pattern is mostly obscured by black (but that's appropriate for a witchy hat).

Next we did a layer (both sides) of grey wool that would give it some structure and support.

I wish I had taken more process pictures, tho it's difficult when your hands are wet and soapy half the time. The third and final layer I did one side as a sunset and the other as layers of blue. (The blue side was going to have white stars but SOMEONE grabbed fibre from the natural fibres bin that wasn't wool. It didn't stick and ended up looking like spitballs so I picked off most of it).

We rolled it in bubble wrap and a towel with a pool noodle and rolled it on the table 50 times, move the pool noodle to the other side of the piece, roll 50 more times, then repeat all that again. THEN took it out, cut a bit to pull out the foam, bundled the felt in a plastic bag and thwacked that on the table 50 times (or more). It was hard to keep count when people's plastic bags were breaking and soapy water was flying around.

My piece felted together inside a little bit. But I turned it inside out and was playing with the shape and thought of A Hat Full of Sky and that decided it.

The hat is a little small, and if I did this again I would change some things, but overall I'm happy with it. Can't wait to see how it is in the morning, if it's dry. It's stuffed with bubble wrap to hold its shape and I wonder about how that affects the drying time...

Will I use wet felting in the final project this week? Very unlikely. It's time consuming and messy and uses so so much raw fiber. But I will wear my Hat Full Of Sky with pride and love.

My classmates made a Christmas tree, a vase/ vessel, a turtle, a tea cosy, a rabbit head, a basic black rectangle with white stars (that somehow stuck better on his piece) and a bowl (but that student has worked with felting for years and teaches classes on wet felting and was challenging herself with the method of shaping on a sphere). One classmate's project was still in progress because he's making a huge piece to play around with a secondary process and that's going to be (part?) of his end of week piece. I'm also excited to see how everyone else's pieces look tomorrow!

[hookednbusy]

more prints of my work😁

Available here

[thehaberdasheress]

In a perfect world, I would design clothing that had custom embroidery perfectly suited to the piece, and it would be on beautiful natural fibres, and all the skirts and dresses would have pockets, and people would buy them even if they cost $500.

A girl can dream, right?

Until then, I've worked on designing things using the materials I and my customers can afford. $100 and $75 dresses are as high as I can dream on my income.

The patterns might just be printed on with sublimation ink, but I work to make them feel like echoes of deliberately hand-decorated art.

They weren't designed to look their best on a hanger or in a mockup. The patterns are optimized for movement, to peek out and hide again as the skirt swings, and for the pure twirl factor.

Want to try one out?

Here's my Etsy

International ground shipping on these items is f r e e e e e e

[reshamandi03]

ReshaMandi’s print forecast will provide market intelligence to weavers, guiding them to craft products that will strike the right chord with customers and thus will sell more.