unspun is a B-Corp and fashion-tech company building the automated infrastructure for the future of apparel. Our OneWeave™ 3D weaving system transforms yarn into ready to sew garment shapes — helping brands and manufacturers produce premium woven products locally, automatically, and on demand. The result: fewer steps, less waste, lower inventory risk. 3D weaving is a faster, cleaner, more efficient way to produce apparel.

Our technology and vision have been recognized by TIME, Vogue, Newsweek, and Fast Company. We've worked with partners including Walmart and Decathlon, and are backed by leading climate-tech investors including DCVC, Lowercarbon, SOSV, and Fifty Years.

What is unspun?

The OneWeave™ system is our proprietary 3D weaving technology platform for apparel.

Instead of making fabric first, cutting it into pieces, and sewing those pieces together, our OneWeave™ system weaves yarn directly into three-dimensional woven garment forms - at speed. The result is a simpler yarn-to-garment process that reduces cutting, sewing, waste, and supply chain complexity. Think of it as an automated device for making woven clothes.

Each OneWeave™ system produces seamless tubes of fabric that form garment components, like pant legs. While weaving, the machine can control the length and diameter of each piece, shaping clothing as it’s made.

The result? A 3D woven garment with the same quality, durability, and functionality as traditional woven clothing — but with fewer seams.

What is the OneWeave™ system?

unspun exists to make the design, manufacturing, and consumption of fashion intentional. Our automated 3D weaving technology reinvents the apparel supply chain — cutting waste and decarbonizing the industry by making clothing only when it's needed. It's all in service of one mission: reducing global carbon emissions by 1%.

What is unspun's mission?

We partner with fashion brands to help them launch products using our OneWeave™ 3D weaving technology. 

For manufacturers, we partner to install our machines directly in their facilities so they can produce 3D woven garments alongside existing lines. 

In both cases, we work behind the scenes as a technology partner — helping the industry shift toward on-demand, waste-free production. [<span className="text-brick">Reach out</span>](https://www.unspun.io/contact) if you are interested in collaborating with us.

How do you collaborate with brands and manufacturers?

3D weaving is a new method for making clothes directly from yarn. It combines the creation of fabric and the assembly of a garment into one process. Woven clothes are typically made from flat panels, cut from a roll of fabric and stitched together. 3D woven clothes are made from hollow shapes of fabric that are stitched to one another. 3D weaving is a technological breakthrough. It requires less yarn, less equipment, less space, less energy, and less time to produce clothing compared to conventional apparel manufacturing.

What is 3D weaving? 

The phrase “3D weaving” sounds similar to the names of other methods for making fabric or making clothes. Occasionally, 3D weaving is mistaken for 3D printing, 3D knitting, or orthogonal weaving (which is sometimes also called “3D weaving”).

However, 3D weaving is fundamentally different than each of these methods.

3D weaving is not 3D printing. 3D weaving describes the creation of fabric from yarn using heddles and shuttles. 3D printing describes the creation of a mesh or a solid object from liquid materials, such as plastics, using a nozzle. 3D weaving is not 3D knitting. 3D weaving refers to the process of interlacing taut yarns at right angles to form woven fabric, which is structurally durable. 3D knitting refers to the process of linking looped yarns through loops of yarns to form knit fabric, which is structurally flexible.

3D weaving is not orthogonal weaving either. 3D weaving produces a hollow shape of fabric that consists of one layer. Orthogonal weaving produces a solid shape of fabric that consists of multiple layers, where each flat layer is connected to another by yarns woven vertically along a Z axis.

To the best of our knowledge, 3D weaving is the fastest method for making any woven garment. Currently, unspun is the only company that makes 3D weaving machines for apparel. 

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