3D printing clothes

I've been searching for "3D-printed clothes" or "3D-printed fabric" on the internet for years, and only ever found retarded stuff that only works for artsy-fartsy fashion projects but has zero usability in any real-life everyday situations, or failures such as Electroloom. Then, one day, I finally stumble upon this: https://www.shimaseiki.com/wholegarment/ This thing can apparently print 1 entire garment in 1 go from mere threads and a computer model, just like you would 3D-print a miniature model, with no sewing involved. Why did nobody told me about this?? Where can i find detailed info about how this machine works, so that one could attempt to replicate it?

Do you mean a knitting machine?

yeah this isnt really 3d printing but knitting machines can be amazing. no idea about this one in particular but there are other knitting machines you can look at. I think replicating this device is going to be non trivial, this isn't 3d printing this is magic

>https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=j19na8LMBnE This should be relevant to your interests. Just search carbon fiber weaving machine, don't click my link. This machine utilizes hardwinding where each individual thread is kept taught to within engineered specifications. Not entirely useful but the scale gives a closer look at some of the more interesting facets of it's operation. Just think of the compiler you would need to do this crap with spools of yarn as opposed to the single arm/single path associated with extrusion printing.

Yeah, that's called knitting. A 3D printed clothing would be quite uncomfortable. Funnily enough, the first "programmable computer" was a loom. Well, automaton rather than computer.

https://hackaday.com/2022/11/28/desktop-sized-fully-automatic-loom-is-an-electromechanical-marvel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBUR466rVQs Even a DIY version (though with a ghetto thread changing mechanism) looks extremely complicated to automate. This of course makes simple fabric, which you would later need to stitch into anything usable.