Gemell
Gemell is a software solution for the textile industry where mills, yarn spinners and their customers can visualise their yarns & fabric designs in photorealistic 3D format without the need to make a sample or use a scanner.
Using the yarn recipe or weave pattern file already created, digital twins of fabrics & yarns can be created and shared, speeding up the product development process by days, saving thousands of hours changing looms and manufacturing samples, reducing the amount of sample waste by over 70% and of course saving all those material and manufacturing costs.
Garment and product designers can design with the digital twin in their CAD software, giving a more realistic result resulting in manufactured products resembling their designs.
- Listing ID: 3433
- Contact: Adam Hankin
- What are your aspirations and plans for the future?: We know we can never rid the world of fabric samples as there will always be a need to touch and feel, however we do see a world where mills trust their digital design to make more informed decisions on what samples should be made, reducing sample production by over 70%. We vision a world where fabric sample books have 1 sample of a colour for handiness and 10 QR codes for digital twins of that fabric in 10 different colours. The likes of CLO and Browzwear will stop using stock/fake fabrics and use libraries of digital twins of real, manufacturable fabrics.
- What types of projects are you interested in working on through Future Fashion Factory?: We’re interested in anything to do with digitising yarns or fabrics. I’m currently discussing a project in Ireland that is the equivalent of “farm to fork” for digital apparel creation. Working with a yarn spinner to digitise the yarn —> working with the mill to digitise the fabric ——> seeing the designer use our digital twin in their product design. We’re especially interested in recycled materials and helping those manufacturers digitise their new yarns. We’re working with a company making threads out of recycled cellulose acetate and he’s creating a yarn mix with natural fibres. That is really interesting to us. However, anything to do with circularity, reducing waste and helping spinners and mills digitise their products is very interesting to us.