08/10/25 Grow your clothes lothes rely on supply chains & commoditized garments. Designers at Barcelona’s Fabricademy use biomaterials to “grow” & “print” the wardrobe of the future, from grass or mushroom garments to algae or …
23/09/24 Bacterial Nanocellulose This summer I had the opportunity to host a workshop on Bacterial Nanocellulose - Growing Leather during the Fab24 International Fab Lab Conference in IDIT, Puebla, Mexico. Even though I am not an …
12/03/24 Beyond Fashion Open Call Puebla, August 8th, 2024 🚀 We seek visionary projects that go beyond conventional fashion, exploring diverse, more than human, and digital futures at the crossroads of innovation and sustainability. …
12/03/24 Future Fabrics Open Call Yucatan | Mexico, July 26th to August 2nd, 2024 🧶 Makers tackling the topic of cultural preservation: Future Fabrics Mexico - Weaving Technology Into Tradition. 💡 Future Fabrics, the winning Bhutan …
05/03/22 DLab Artistic Residency In January 2019 I had the amazing opportunity to be invited for an artistic residency and workshop at DLab USFQ in Ecuador by my very good friend and amazing researcher Cristina Muñoz to work …
01/09/21 STARTS PRIZE '21 | Remix el Barrio Over the last 30 years, plastic production has increased by 620%. In Catalonia alone, every day, 720,000 kg of food is thrown away. This wasted food, totaling 260,000 tons per year, is equivalent to …
19/05/21 E-stitches Barcelona If you are working with e-textiles, conductive threads, craft and technology, combining hand embroidery with electronics, then you should learn about the e-stitches community of practitioners! …
12/03/21 Materia Bruta/Worth Project Presenting a year-long collaboration with Surzana Radnaeva from Traditional Futures that was supported by Worth Partnership project. This garment was made from Bacterial-dyed linen using Shibori …
29/01/20 Contest Fashion Digital Made / ALTA Roma BE grounded Project of Fabricademy BCN alumni Lara Campos BEgrounded Project [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqqWj_GrfTQ[/embed] Digital Python Project of Fabricademy BCN alumni Juan Felipe …
27/01/20 Leather Molding Technique https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1l996bONiYH1lQwb3qWC1InSZ1QEAp0LpILAAkpUZ6dA/edit?usp=sharing
23/10/19 BIO RIOT Honoring the Earth Day on the 22nd of April 2020 with BIO RIOT! , worn by Jessica Guy at the strike against climate this past September in Barcelona! Made with the same recipe of the Coffee Leather …
03/08/19 Maker Faire BCN 2019 / Fabtextiles FabTextiles and Materials Lab participated in the Makerfaire BCN 2019 at Nau Bostic. The projects we presented were:
19/09/18 5th Digital Fashion & Wearables Exhibition 5th Digital Fashion & Wearables exhibition by FabTextiles and Textile Lab Amsterdam, Villette Makerz, Paris, 2018 (picture by Clara Davis) . This year FabTextiles participated in the FAB14, the …
13/09/18 Bioplastic Cook Book Bioplastics samples by Margaret Dunne, FabTextiles, Fab Lab Barcelona, 2018 . During her two month internship at FabTextiles and Materials lab, Margaret Dunne, a fiber scientist researcher studying …
15/06/18 Fab Textiles : Exhibitions of 2017- 2018 This year Fab Textiles travelled in various spaces and events, continuing to spread, between innovation and sustainability, a new vision for the future industry of textiles and fashion. . …
07/06/18 Thermochromic research Thermochromic inks have the property to change color with temperature. In the mid-sixties, laboratories started to develop thermochromic liquid crystal materials. That research emerged at the same …
24/05/18 BioShades Workshop, Textile Bacteria Dyeing BioShades Workshop, TCBL, Fab Textiles, Mazda Space, Barcelona, March 2018 . Textile dyeing chemical processes contributes significantly to pollution and results in waste products that find their way …
22/05/18 Bio Filter : bioplastic + activated charcoal In 1831, Mr. Touery, a professor at the French Academy of Medicine, drank strychnine, a deadly poison, in front of all his colleagues. He survived. How ? He had combined the lethal dose with …
07/02/18 BioShades Workshop & Talks This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 646133. Join BioShades distributed workshop and let’s push the …
30/01/18 Bioplastic Wunderpants These Wunderpants were inspired by the anonymous Superheroes and Wonderwomen of the world, who are everyday fighting to save the environment one design at a time. They have been made from the …
27/01/18 Textile Academy Bootcamp @ WEMAKE , Milan Our annual Bootcamp will take place in Milan ! After the first edition of the Textile- Academy , from September 2017- March 2018, we come back for our annual Bootcamp, where professionals, future …
20/11/17 Fab13 Fashion Show During Fab13, the international Fab Lab conference held in Santiago de Chile in August 2017, we organized a Fashion Show, demonstratingthe applications of digital technologies in haute couture and …
06/11/17 BioBags collection This BioBags collection, created by Clara Davis as part of her training internship at the lab. It is an environmental project about how to replace plastic bags and daily life packaging with …
25/10/17 Mannequin 2017 The 4th edition of Fab Textiles Showcase featured our new mannequin. Together with Fab Lab Santiago and Protein Lab UTEM we fabricated 8mannequins to showcase new designs of fashion tech. The design …
12/09/17 Fab13: Challenge on Fashion & Assistive Technology- Winners We celebrated Fab13 with a Challenge on Fashion and Assistive Technology to recognize the ways society embraces digital fabrication in the most intimate way. Technology gets closer, it becomes an …
29/06/17 3d printed top! Currently a 3d printer that prints clothes does not exist. In the sense that there is not any popular, low cost, numerically controlled deposition of textile matter (fibers) such as a textile 3d …
26/06/17 Barcelona Maker Faire 2017 This year the team FabTextiles (Fab Lab Barcelona) of Anastasia Pistofidou and Clara Davis participated to the Maker Faire Barcelona 2017. Maybe you are wondering what is a MakerFaire ? A Maker Faire …
24/03/17 "ECOcyborg" YoMo festival 2017 ECOcyborg is a fashion tech show created by Alex-Murray Leslie and the students of the IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) Barcelona. This artistic performance is about the impact of technologies in our …
19/03/17 Textile Academy Bootcamp WrapUp Textiles Academy Bootcamp was an intensive 40h course that took place at IaaC Fab Lab Barcelona with 25 participants from US, Canada, France, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Holland, Chile, Sweden, …
01/03/17 Encapsulated Pollen Encapsulated pollen is a project that brings together technology and creativity. 3D printing, jewelry and perfumes.It is a proposal that we made for a workshop on the future packaging of …
10/02/17 Textile Academy Bootcamp Fashion needs to be updated! We are making a bespoke program for the new hybrid fashion and textile designers, artists and curious technologists combining the essential tools and knowledge of our …
04/12/16 FAB12 @ Shenzhen The 3rd edition for the Digital Fashion and Wearables was exhibited during Fab12 Conference in Shenzhen and counted with the participation of many diverse and versatile projects. Our mission is to …
24/10/16 Mannequin 2016 One of the lab´s research themes is the design and production of digital mannequins as an abstract representation of the human body using different fabrication processes and materials. In order to …
12/10/16 Dye Sublimation Transfer Printer This project is a series of garments made as a collaboration between FabTextiles and Roland DG, using Texart RT-640 Dye Sublimation Plotter. The collaboration is based on the possibility of …
27/07/16 Fab Textiles Bootcamp Bootcamp with Icelandic teachers: Introduction to soft fabrication and the use of digital fabrication applied on textiles and fashion New mediums of production and accessibility to new technologies …
05/07/16 Wooden Textile Bracelet What do you need: veneers textile (denim) woodglue + brush or paint roller vacuum press lasercutter (trotec speedy 100) rhinoceros 4 buttons (for cling sealing) rivet gun for buttons How to do: …
30/05/16 Material catalogue Bioplastics & Biocouture Bioplastics Catalogue: Discover the Bioplastic recipe here Tests on overlapping layers of bioplastic sheets that are mixed with thermochromic ink. Tests on adding carbon fibres for conductivity on …
30/05/16 Skin2 Elective Seminar // Biocouture// Bioplastics Master in Advanced Architecture – Skin2 Seminar Final Presentations SO.18 – Elective Seminar What will the human of the future be like? Focusing on the human skin , as a means for protection but …
28/04/16 Fiber Dress "Cloudio" The pieces are part of the exhibition VESTIR I DESVESTIR COSSOS. Fenomenologies d’aparició Del 13 de febrer al 22 de maig de 2016, at the art center > La Panera The Fiber dress is an ongoing …
27/04/16 Dress up Workshop Tel Aviv We got invited to the international workshops of the College of Management Academic Studies, COMAS in Tel Aviv, Israel and the FabLabIL with a proposal for a workshop on “Soft Space” Soft Space is a …
27/04/16 3D PRINT ON FABRIC @MCE3 conference This is a quick tutorial to make your 3D printing on fabrics. This samples have been realised during the workshop at MCE3 conference in Warsaw. That shows you how 3D printing with rubber filament …
25/04/16 SSIC AND PAUL shop front mannequins SSIC AND PAUL saw our work of making custom digital fabricated mannequins and commissioned us to produce mannequins for the shop front. (Carrer dels Santjoanistes, 14, 08006 Barcelona). The …
02/03/16 FTex workshop Feb 2016 During the workshop we navigated through the Digital Fabrication technologies and had an overview of the techniques and applications the FabTextile project investigates and other references and …
02/03/16 Modular system - FTex workshop Feb 2016 Ece Tankal & Ilkim Er worked on the exercise “Modular Systems” where one geometry can assemble with the other to create a seamless form of textures. There are many Fashion Designers as well as …
02/03/16 3D Print on Fabric - Ftex workshop Feb 2016 Print on Fabric The process of printing on fabric is quite direct, you have to attach the fabric with black clips on the printing platform and readjusting the nozzle according to the fabric height. …
27/02/16 FabTextiles @ Veritas University _ CINNO Costa Rica The seminar is taught to students from the 1st and 3rd year of fashion school at Veritas University in Costa Rica„ in collaboration with Fab Lab Veritas, CINNO. In this 20hour seminar the students …
18/02/16 Ephemeral Arts Connection workshop When Stardust* founders Francesco Ducato and Carla Athayde came up with the idea of publishing a book with 2000 unique covers, I imagined that somebody had told them to reach out to me and that I …
30/11/15 WinterLAB [+] @ Laboral, Asturias Laboral organised a meeting on community and the critical use of technology with a weekend programme of presentations, round tables and workshops in November 2015. Here you can see the streaming of …
06/11/15 TASKA Taska is the Icelandic word for a backpack and also a multifunctional bag made to carry everything from a laptop to all your camping gear. The design of the pattern is simple and the bag can be made …
02/10/15 Parametric Origami Hat- Hatori! The idea behind the hat was to create a 3D matter out of a 2D production, laser cutting, through origami folding. Using a program like Rhinoceros with Grasshopper plug in, one can play with …
06/08/15 Fab 11 Boston Exhibition 15 participants showcased their works during Fab11 Conference in Boston. From performance garments, prosthetics, experimental couture made in fab labs all over the world to brands that have …
28/07/15 ID Sound In 2015 Sonar introduces for the first time the NFC cashless payment system for everything that was sold inside the festival. Each person that atended the festival had one of this tags. IDSound is a …
04/07/15 FAB 11 Digital Fashion and Wearables Exhibition CALL FOR PROJECTS Fab11_Boston invites you to submit your proposal for the Digital Fashion and Wearables Exhibition that will take place during the Fab Festival, from August 8 and 9 in the cities of Boston, Cambridge …
10/06/15 Computational Couture @Beyond Last May 19th to 22nd, in the context of the International Construction faire Construmat and within the Pavilion of Innovation , IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona runned the Computational Couture …
28/04/15 Molding Fabrics En el Fab Lab para experimentar esta conocida técnica de moldear el cuero mojado utilizamos la tecnología digital de apoyo y soporte para agilizar y mejorar los procesos. Como primera experimentación …
17/04/15 Fab Textiles SHOWCASE @ FAB10 This selection of young and skilful creators that combine fashion design, technology and wearables. Different materials, crazy ideas and unique processes are realised. Sensor driven textiles, digital …
17/04/15 Laser cut aprons In the fab textiles we made a laser cut apron for the fab lab members. The aprons are made from raw denim and they contain special pockets for the fab lab tools.
11/03/15 Custom 3D printed glasses These 3D printable glasses are created with the customer in mind. By seperating the front frame and temples, you can create a nice mixture of colors and textures. Also the pattern on the temples can …
02/03/15 Laptop embroidered cases Using the embroidery machine we have started creating these minimal laptop cases. We used raw denim for the base, thin foam for the inner lining and embroidered animal figures in zigzag technique, …
26/02/15 Seamless Seamless: Digital Fabrication jacket uses a variety of digital and analog tools. With the use of digital computing and fabrication methods we are able to rapidly prototype and assemble new designs. …
21/10/14 "3982" A mix of futuristic clothing, robotics and technology “3982” was born from IBCO and Ayoub Qanir with the goal of creating a piece of clothing with an aesthetic feature inspired by the idea of a …
14/10/14 RIG mannequin RIG is a digitally processed and fabricated mannequin designed for ¨Fab-Textiles Showcase¨ during the Fab10 international conference in Barcelona. The design for RIG is an exploration into the …
16/05/14 Fab Textiles V5 Fab Textiles V5: Redefining pattern making and traditional seam joinery Participants to this edition of the Fab textiles workshop were introduced to digital modelling techniques that allowed them to …
06/04/14 The machine to be another- Hardware development Fab Lab Barcelona had the great experience to collaborate with and host a short term residency for BeAnotherLab in order to develop the project “The Machine to be Another”. The project, which …
18/10/13 Fridge Bag Fridge Bag is made out of fabric and silicone based on a 3d mold, which is fabricated in a milling machine. The concept of this project is to use LEDs, embedded in the fabric, that light up when …
09/10/13 Lab Bag This project was conceived as a way to recycle previously used material into newly designed laptop bags. The material was provided from old canvas boards used for the My Very Own City (MVOC) …
06/10/13 Dressellate Dressellate explores folding techniques by transforming a 2D pattern and a piece of fabric, into a 3D volume. The prototype, made from thin plastic sheets is a study of the volumetry of the body. The …
20/09/13 Fashion design exploration with Natural hemp fibers The Barcelona Fab textiles based in the Stigmergic Fibers (A new approach to material behaviour) designed by Jean Akanish, Jin Shihui, Alexander Dolan and Ali Yerdel in the Master for Advanced …
09/07/13 Light sensored constellations Constelaciones es un proyecto en proceso de Lina Lopes que integra el diseño de accesorios con tecnologia interactiva
17/06/13 Summer workshop with Fashion students of BAU, School of Design During the summer workshops, fashion students of BAU, School of Design made a workshop of digital fabrication technologies applied in fashion.Students were introduced to laser cutting patterns, …
30/05/13 Modularidad Rhinoceros ha sido el programa que se ha usado para el diseño y la cortadora láser para la fabricación. Diseño de unas piezas modulares en fieltro, para crear prendas de ropa a partir de la …
25/04/13 3D printed shoes 3D printing shoes from a sketch notebook is a project that could only become true through an incubator of the FabLabBcn. A fashion design student in collaboration with a fablab expert have developed …
16/04/13 Colaboración "Close to the Body I" Close to the body es un taller que están desarrollando Oscar Tomico y Marina Castán con un grupo interdisciplinar de estudiantes del master de interacción del IAAC y estudiantes de diseño de moda de …
16/04/13 Patronaje digital de camiseta Fabricación Digital de Camiseta Los últimos avances en el departamento de Textiles del Fab Lab Barcelona son el uso de las máquinas de corte láser para la composición de una camiseta de principio a …
16/04/13 Taller V1 FabTextiles En este primer Taller inicial, la propuesta era explorar en nuevos medios de producción a través de herramientas de fabricación digital. En el taller se exploraron diferentes métodos de fabricación …
16/12/12 Rasterizado con Cortadora Láser en Textil Una herramienta usada habitualmente en la fabricación digital, es la cortadora láser. Los usos más habituales de esta máquina son cortar madera, acrílico, plásticos… Otra de las funciones de la …
16/03/12 Embroidered Bags La bordadora digital es otra de las herramientas de Fab Textiles. Haciendo un dibujo en Illustrator, puedes prácticamente bordarlo sobre cualquier textil. En este caso Fab Lab Barcelona ha hecho una …
12/03/12 T-shirts embroidery These two knitted patterns,one of the “traveling salesman problem” visualization and the other of “the big wave” , Hokusai are part of a new series of knitted projects to come! Hokusai Traveling …
