Love & Robots

Introducing the world’s first entirely 3d printed and customisable cape. Plumage is created using 3d printed chainmail with an upper layer of personalized feather components that together create a fluid, wearable fabric. The cape has over 6000 separate moving component parts that can be 3d printed all in one piece. Plumage was unveiled at Dutch Design Week in October 2015. Plumage is made from 6000 free-moving pieces of fine polyamide nylon and measures approximately 465mm in diameter. The material is hypoallergenic and very lightweight which makes it ideal for large pieces. The cape is composed of a 3d printed chainmail substructure with an upper layers of integrated feathers. All feathers are customisable and can be re-designed personally according to each wearer’s style. Each cape is manufactured on-demand for each customer and finished by hand. Plumage is a collaboration between design studio Love & Robots and costume designer Niamh Lunny created for ID2015, the year of Iris.