Welcome to Modern Material Matters, Inc.
More Than Your Materials Matters
SO, IF YOU'VE BEEN:
🚫Circling ideas with no path to production
🚫Burned by factories who didn’t “get it”
🚫Wasting time Googling materials
🚫 Doing pitch decks without knowing what’s feasible
Then you’re the exact person we created this for.
Clarity isn’t optional—it’s step one.
🧭 Purpose
We operate at the intersection of design, science, and strategy,
offering a powerful mix of technical mastery and creative insight.
Our clients include founders, brands, engineers, and institutional R&D teams who need help turning high-stakes ideas into real-world products.
At Modern Material Matters (MMM), we create the building blocks of the next generation of sustainable design — one stitch at a time. Based in California, we specialize in advanced flat-knit innovation, developing exclusive stitches, textures, and engineered fabrics that
merge artistry, sustainability, and technical precision.
We specialize in working one on one with clients who want their knitted fabrics made with care, efficiency, and attention to detail — whether in apparel, footwear, wellness, medical, or lifestyle markets.
What we offer:
Many people ask how MMM works. Were doing things a bit differently- more creatively, more hands on to get styles to market faster.
Most factories don’t have the time to spend with designers in showing knitwear capabilities on the machines, building the fabrics in the development process we do.
Blending real life fabric, yarn, and machinery capabilities, with AI eliminates inmates the “ I know what I want when I see it” issue. Using our digital technology save time, money and creative resources
Creativity isn’t optional—it’s step two.
We integrate decades of expertise from Fabdesigns with modern tools, including AI-driven platforms, to create manufacturable designs and breakthrough textiles. Through Knittivity®, we extend this vision into knit design and fashion trends, offering downloadable knitting programs, curated resources, and collaborations
for designers and brands.
We are the skunk works.
Our proprietary stitch library (Knittivity Knit Collections) is the foundation of everything we do. Each design is machine-tested and cataloged across multiple yarns, gauges, and finishing processes, ensuring every fabric performs beautifully and aligns with real manufacturing capability. These are not generic samples — they are trend-forward, original structures that define what’s next in knitwear and performance textiles.
We use state-of-the-art AI-assisted design tools blended with reality to visualize, iterate, and refine our stitch concepts — blending real yarn data, knit logic,machine capabilities, and creative storytelling to produce on-point trend / mood boards and digital imageryfor different markets. These trend outlines help designers and brands envision full collections faster and more accurately. What people see is not only possible to produce, it's framed in cost, materials and potential styling.
Trend outlines are ideal to collaborate and create. because we grade the stitches in different criteria- yarn, knit efficiency, gauge, machine type, and much more.
Sustainability isn’t optional—it’s step three.
A curated selection of our machine-tested programs is available for instant download in Stoll M1+ format through Gumroad, giving professional knitters and development teams access to exclusive, production-ready designs. The remainder of our library is reserved for our private collaborations, ensuring our clients’ projects stay distinctive, elevated and confidential.
At MMM, we combine decades of technical expertise from Fabdesigns with a modern approach to digital creation, AI, and sustainable materials — helping the world’s most discerning creators design better, smarter, and more responsibly.
Real machine and yarn testing on their schedule and in their materials gives them peace of mind that they are pushing the creative limits of styling and driving revenue with pieces no one else has on the planet.
Speed To Market is critical—it’s step four.
🧭 Mission
At Modern Material Matters (MMM), we help brands and innovators fast track the design and development process to deliver sustainable, high-performance products built on transparency, quality, and natural materials. We specialize in working one on one with clients who want to create goods made with care, efficiency, and attention to detail — whether in apparel, footwear, wellness, medical, or lifestyle markets.
Other Expertise We Offer:
• Fractional expertise in sustainability, supply chain, and advanced materials engineering
• Design and product development from concept through production
• In House Knitting program design and fashion-trend driven exclusives (Knittivity®)
• Natural fiber sourcing and development with farmers and processors
• Supply chain strategy and global production alignment (U.S., Mexico, Turkey, Uruguay, China, Vietnam, Spain, Italy)
• AI-powered iteration, curation, and design collaboration to build unique colors, textures, cuts, and products
We translate deep expertise in fibers, polymers, yarns, knitted structures, and fabrication into breakthrough products that function beautifully, perform reliably, and are built to last.
Our mission is simple:
👉 To solve the hardest problems in materials and product development — before they happen.
👉 To provide reliable, transparent, and sustainable solutions that meet the growing demand for better goods and stronger supply chains.
About Modern Material Matters
Who is MMM for:
- Founders, designers, and creative entrepreneurs with a product idea—but no roadmap
- Executives, startups and venture backed innovators who need someone like us - but don't know how to find us (yet).
- Tech, fashion, wellness, home, and wearables brands who want to launch products that actually work
- Industry professionals tired of fluff consultants who can’t execute.
- Compnaies seeking sustianable solutions and circular solutions that divert textile waste from landfills
- DEngineers seeking sustainable and automated manufacturing solutions
At Modern Material Matters, we engineer sustainable, scalable, and high-performance material solutions for design-led industries — from advanced textiles and technical apparel
to medical devices, wellness, and transportation. We offer in house production for technical textile knit products, components, and ready for assembly structures.
Our consulting provides tailored solutions that help designers brands, manufacturers, and industries experiment with creative textiles, while integrating circularity, regenerative design, and advanced material strategies into their products and operations.
We overflow with value: (actual comments from our clients)
- "They spot what we’ve been doing wrong in five minutes.”
- “They ask questions we don’t know how to answer.”
- “They know more than our VP — and that helps our management team tremendously.”
But it’s exactly that deep insight, pattern recognition, and refusal to compromise that makes us priceless to people who do want to fix things.
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Private Consulting Services
We operate at the intersection of design, science, and strategy, offering a powerful mix of technical mastery and creative insight.
Our clients include founders, Fortune 500 brands,start ups, engineers, and institutional R&D teams who need help turning high-stakes ideas into real-world products.
We are a skunk works and test prototype scenarios and material options in house.
Materials Expertise
1. Sustainable Materials & Advanced Fabric Engineering
- Fiber-to-product consulting: From polymers to yarns to finished goods
- Bio-based, recycled, and smart materials sourcing & specs
- Knitted, woven, and nonwoven solutions for technical and aesthetic applications
- Performance zone mapping and 3D textile engineering
- Expertise in EMI/RF shielding, moisture management, and mechanical compression
3D Knitting Expertise
2. Product Design, Development & Sourcing Strategy
- Concept-to-launch strategy for consumer and medical soft goods
- Vendor & supply chain alignment: U.S., EU, and Asia
- Prototyping, manufacturing optimization, and costing for scalability in house.
- Design-for-assembly, material substitution, and obsolescence mitigation
Technical Textile Expertise
3. Innovation Advisory & Technical Brand Positioning
- IP strategy support (patents, use cases, competitive mapping)
- Product pipeline creation and roadmaps for investor or internal buy-in
- Fractional Chief Product Officer leadership for high-growth teams
- Go-to-market planning, pitch support, and founder-side brand development
Interdisciplinary Expertise
4. Our Expertise and Our clients span Multiple Industries and Continents
- Mid-stage and growth-stage product companies building physical goods
- Sustainability-driven consumer brands
- R&D departments at design-led or performance-focused companies
- Medical device, footwear, automotive, and smart textile innovators
- Founders looking to de-risk production and fast-track development
Our partners include everything from pre-revenue startups to Fortune 100 enterprises — all looking to solve complex material and product development problems with intelligence, integrity, and efficiency.
How We Work
It is not enough to just make stuff.
We help close the loop.
MMM bridges the gap between sustainability, innovation, and real-world implementation.
We offer multiple levels of engagement to fit your needs:
- One-Time Consultations (Book via [calendar link])
- Project-Based Engineering & Sourcing
- Fractional Leadership & Strategic Advisory (Interim CPO / Materials Lead)
- Private R&D Commissions under NDA
Let’s discuss how we can help