Methods and apparatuses to facilitate strain measurement in textiles

Abstract

A system to produce a textile component of an article includes a processor and memory configured to determine a strain value in a region of a textile component of a reference article of footwear based on images of the reference article of footwear of a camera in selective communication with the processor and memory, and to generate a strain map based on the strain value. The system includes an additive manufacturing device in selective communication with the processor and memory and configured to apply a reinforcement to a substrate that has a shape of an upper for a custom article of footwear to variably reinforce the textile component based on the strain map and to form the textile component of the custom article of footwear.

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