Method of making footwear components

A method of forming a plate for an article of footwear, comprising:

• applying a liquid to select portions of a first substrate sheet of material;
• applying a powder to the first substrate sheet of material;
• applying suction to the first substrate sheet of material in order to remove the powder from portions of the first substrate sheet of material that are not coated with the liquid to form a selectively powdered sheet of material;
• applying additional liquid, additional powder, and additional suction to one or more additional substrate sheets of material to form a stack of selectively powdered sheets of material;
• using compression and heat to join the stack of selectively powdered sheets of material into a partially cured structure;
• and
• removing uncured portions of sheet material from the partially cured structure leaving a cured structure.

A method of making an upper for an article of footwear, the method comprising:

• applying a liquid to select portions of a first substrate sheet of material;
• applying a powder to the first substrate sheet of material;
• removing the powder from portions of the first substrate sheet of material that are not coated with the liquid;
• and
• treating the powder to form cured portions of the first substrate sheet of material.

A method of making an upper for an article of footwear, comprising:

• applying a liquid to select portions of a first substrate sheet of material;
• applying a powder to the liquid on the first substrate sheet of material;
• treating the liquid and powder to form cured portions of the first substrate sheet of material;
• and
• separating uncured portions from the first substrate sheet of material, leaving a cured structure.