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What we do

 Fabdesigns offers rare B2B consulting services, prototypes development, and post development production of 2D and 3D footwear, technical fabrics, and textile components with nearly zero waste. Our clients are big brands, startups, film industry, and others.  


Bring your existing Stoll program, prototype, or develop a new project with us.


We do the hard stuff for designers, engineers, start-ups, and mega-brands.  This is real innovation: 3D & 4D textiles with integrated functions in footwear, automotive, medical, aerospace, architecture, composites, sports equipment and more. 


  • Fabdesigns engineers extreme textile projects, using knitting as additive manufacturing.   

  

  • Fabdesigns builds end-to-end product development road maps that translate and align each client's business/design briefs to coordinate with textile machinery capabilities, raw material availability and quality specifications, the precise nuances in textile and technology market trends, all while managing cost/value requirements, and ensuring client brand continuity.


  • Fab has several industry-proven track records of success rooted in a deep understanding of raw material development, cost engineering, and excellent technical knowledge of yarn knits and performance fabrications. Our strong design empathy and interpersonal skills, including the ability to positively interface with designers, operations, vendors, supply chain, and the C offices at mega international brands and start-ups alike drives innovation.


  • We build products from the polymer up. Feasibility and ROI starts here in a LEAN environment, using our advanced technical R&D methods, know-how, technical sourcing knowledge of materials, and technical processes to create customized attention for each of our clients. We are their secret "sandbox."​ 


Over the last two years we’ve shifted from solely R&D to vertical development and manufacturing, by capturing business that ordinarily went to third party factories. 


By taking production in house, we’ve solved the transfer of technology problems, which caused a lot of time, effort, and pain points for our clients and the sweater factories around the world who are of a very different mindset and business model than technical textile production requires.


These specialized projects build jobs, good reliable and confidential business that is as insulated as possible from knock-offs, as well as skillsets for our clients, while we save tons of post-production trash that would go into landfills around the world. 


Over the past decade we’ve built a robust IP portfolio and licensing program of certain technologies for footwear, medical, aerospace, apparel, composites, and other industries.


Manufacturing in house keeps our IP and our clients IP safely in house.  


What happens at Fab, stays at Fab.  


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Need an On-Line Class?

Designing and creating 3D knit products has never been so popular. But no one teaches the technology, not even the machine builders. Many designers and companies have no idea where to start.   

  • Are you an apparel designer with so many great ideas for sustainability, but you’re not sure if the machines can make any of them? 
  • You want to buy machines to on-shore your products, but you don’t know which one?   
  • Did a salesman tell you knitting machines are just like the 3D printers, you bought a machine, and just figured out they're not?
  • Can’t find any place to learn without taking take months or years off from your job to go back to college? And, it turns out even colleges don’t have the details you need to truly innovate? 

Private / Semi Private Coaching & Strategic Workshops

 If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then join us.  We offer strategic Consulting, professional Coaching, and Online classes.  30-minute initial chat at no cost.


Sign up to Thinkific at no cost and check out our free bonus material in Fabdesigns' Learn With Leaders.


Or . . . Join us for INTERACTIVE ZOOM Q&A - Creative Edge: Adventures in 3D Knitting and Textiles, the last Wednesday of each month until May 26, 2021. Space is limited. Sign up now.

 Questions?  Email us info@fabdesigns

Note:

Our studio has Stoll electronic knitting machinery.  Most ALL materials in our on-line resources translate to ANY brand of knitting machinery, including Shima, Cixing, Steiger, Longxing, and others.  We are not subsidized by any machine builder or yarn supplier.  

All content is our own opinion without endorsement. 

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Technology Track Class 1 : Intro to Flat Knitting

Bonus Class 1: Maintenance: Proper Oiling of a Flat Knitting Machine

Technology Track Class 1 : Intro to Flat Knitting

 Knitting Technology Class 1  This class is #1 in our Technology track.  Chapter 1 covers the history of knititng, forming loops, parts of a needle, parts of the needle bed.  Chapter 2 covers getting yarn into the machine, parts of a feeder, types of feeders and yarn devices. 

Mini-Class: Traditional vs Technical Development

Bonus Class 1: Maintenance: Proper Oiling of a Flat Knitting Machine

Technology Track Class 1 : Intro to Flat Knitting

 Mini-Class: Traditional Textiles vs Technical  Creating products is a process.  Innovation is the buzz word.  Companies need IP in order to get funding but many times don't understand which path they're on.  This class contrasts and compares traditional path with technical product development.   

Bonus Class 1: Maintenance: Proper Oiling of a Flat Knitting Machine

Bonus Class 1: Maintenance: Proper Oiling of a Flat Knitting Machine

Bonus Class 1: Maintenance: Proper Oiling of a Flat Knitting Machine

  Bonus Class: Proper Oiling of a Flat Knitting Machine.  A little oil in the right places can make all the difference in a machine running properly, or breaking yarns, and wearing out.   See how to properly oil a machine.  

No charge

Technology Track Class 2: Threading Up - Yarns vs The Knitting Machine

Technology Track Class 2: Threading Up - Yarns vs The Knitting Machine

Technology Track Class 2: Threading Up - Yarns vs The Knitting Machine

 Knitting Technology Class 2  

There are many types of yarns in the world.  Everything from natural materials to synthetics can take different yarn sizes, configurations, and a world of variations in fibers themselves.

 So how do we get all of these different yarns to knit in the same knitting machine?

Interactive Zoom Q&A

Technology Track Class 2: Threading Up - Yarns vs The Knitting Machine

Technology Track Class 2: Threading Up - Yarns vs The Knitting Machine

 Mini-Class: Creative Edge: Interactive Zoom Q&A: Adventures in Knitting and other Textiles. Tired of the pandemic? Creating products is a process.  Hang out with like-minded people who want to make cool things sustainably.   Here's the place to ask the questions you always wanted to be answered. We're live.  Email us for the next available date.  All meetings on a weekday 10:00 am PT.   


Bonus Class 2: What is the future of materials?

Technology Track Class 2: Threading Up - Yarns vs The Knitting Machine

Bonus Class 2: What is the future of materials?

  Bonus Class: Technical vs Traditional Materials, a conversation with Rajim Jindani Ph.D.   Did you ever want to know how material technology and biomimicry can help us transform our environments sustainably?  Connie Huffa of Fabdesigns Inc., sits down with textile and biomedical engineer, Dr. Rahim Jindani, to discuss traditional methods of making textiles fading and the emerging technologies of nano-materials and nature-based materials. 

No charge 

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