In addition to social distancing and working from home, public health experts have also advised everyone to start wearing masks, mobilizing legions of folks to sew and manufacture protective face coverings, so that medical staff and others on the frontlines fighting against coronavirus are not competing with the public for medical-grade Personal Protection Equipment (PPE).

This very sudden and dire need for masks provided a sort of acid test for the team at industrial design firm Bilio and their high-tech, zero-waste knitting process.