NAO x Materialliance
An end-to-end solution for your knitted developmentsWelcome to the future of textiles!
In a groundbreaking strategic partnership, NAO and Materialliance are developing a revolutionary end-to-end solution to streamline and enhance the supply chain. This innovative collaboration is set to transform the efficiency of your development process from ideation all the way to market, offering invaluable knowledge, inspiration, and technical solutions to boost your production efficiency.
Our end-to-end solution is designed to accelerate the efficiency of product and textile development. By integrating knowledge, trends, inspiration, and cutting-edge technology, we offer a streamlined process that enhances every stage of your production, from initial concept to market-ready product. Discover how our revolutionary approach can transform your development process and significantly boost your production efficiency.
The Process
Step1: Research and Inspiration
Our comprehensive approach starts with knowledge and inspiration. By providing trend reports and an extensive material library that includes fabrics and products: we equip companies and designers with the necessary specifications to kickstart their developments. Materialliance's exclusive Creator Tool simplifies the process, allowing you to gather and organize data with ease.
Step2: AI-generated Constructions
Once your specifications are ready, NAO’s advanced software takes over, creating unique AI-generated textile constructions. This one-of-a-kind development tool produces diverse knitting construction designs and efficiently displays real-time virtual outcomes of new fabrics for both single and double-sided circular and jacquard knitting.
Step 3: Choose your yarn
Select the perfect yarn for your development in our extensive yarn library: either for sportswear, interior, outerwear, loungewear or intimates, we have tested and approved a wide variety of yarns that will work perfectly for your garments. Our library contains more than one thousand items, ready to be used on circular and seamless technology.
Step 4: Feasibility Verification
NAO’s software stands out by providing instant verification of development feasibility and automatically generating technical sheets for fabric constructions. This ensures compatibility with major industry circular knitting machines, making the development process not only innovative but also highly practical.
Developments created by NAO and Materialliance
Come explore our developments created with our end-to-end process for Regal yarns.
Accelerate your development process with us.
About NAO
Since 2019 NAO adds new dimensions to textile innovation with its industry-first software, focusing on circular knitting fabric construction development. NAO supports the creation of new fabric constructions in no time, with the assurance that they can be produced in real life.
NAO originates diverse knitting construction designs, as well as efficiently and accurately displaying real time virtual outcomes of new fabrics for both single/double sided circular and jacquard knitting. NAO’s software also provides instant verification of development feasibility and automatic delivery of fabric constructions technical sheets making NAO compatible with major industry circular knitting machines.
An AI-generated system to accelerate your textile and product developments.