For her graduate project at Shenkar, an art and design school in Israel, Danit Peleg developed a five-piece fashion collection that can be produced entirely with an at-home 3-D printer.

After experimenting unsuccessfully with the hard plastic filaments typically used in consumer 3-D printers, Peleg found a strong, flexible variety called FilaFlex.

Paired with new cellular structures being devised by 3-D printing researchers, the material allowed Peleg to create “lace-like textiles” that she could work with “just like cloth.” She printed them using a Witbox---a $1,800 machine.

But Peleg’s collection shows the variety of looks that are possible with the technique. Some of the dresses are unmistakably cutting-edge, their complex triangles clinging to the models like scaffolding on futuristic skyscrapers. But some of Peleg’s other garments are very nearly normal.

Two more conventional looks include a black dress with subtle, tasteful topography and a long black-and-white striped skirt paired with a teal cropped top. These look different than they would if made with more traditional textiles, but the difference isn’t arresting.

Peleg found that it took around 20 hours to print a piece of plastic textile as big as a single sheet of office paper, and in the end, she had to scale up production to a “3-D printing farm” of several units to finish the garments in time for their debut (she 3-D printed a pair of striking red heels for the models to wear on the runway).

Each outfit took around 400 hours to print in all.