A large part of the company hinged on affixing the fiber to our garments. Over the four years I was working at BioThred, we explored full garment knitting, technical embroidery, and custom fiber tunneling. I gained a large amount of experience working with fabrics and building soft goods during my time at the company; I learned about all parts of the soft goods manufacturing process, from sourcing and dyeing to final garment assembly. Additionally, I gained over 100 hours of experience working on a ZSK technical wire embroidery machine and its included software.

While the soft goods portion of the project ended up falling under the supervision of another engineer on the project, I continued to learn and brainstorm different methods of garment assembly and fiber incorporation. Additionally, I traveled to one of our partners to verify, observe, and test their assembly of our 70 test garments, spending days measuring and documenting the process.