Flowers and fabric

By Andrew Gregory. Posted

It’s probably just as accurate to describe this as 3D-printed knitting as it is to call it chain-mail, but mail sounds cooler, so that’s what we’re going with. Thingiverse user Tim Heilmann calls this Fabric of Thyme 2.0. We call it witchcraft: the links are formed as part of the print so, as soon as you peel it off the print bed, you’ve got a small square of plastic chain-mail.

Tim’s design comes in various sizes, and he’s also created connectors so that you can sew patches together. Because the fabric is mostly air, it makes a good insulator and it’s highly flexible; though we’re not sure whether it’ll protect you from cave trolls.

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Vase

Flowers are pretty, everyone knows that. Instead of putting them in a manky old pot that’s been hanging around in the garage, here’s a 3D-printed vase that brings a modern mathematical-inspired look, and which you can customise to whatever colour you can print.

This vase, created by Alexey Grishchenko, is a modified version of an existing design, changed to make the base bigger, and move the centre of gravity further down.

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