7 - Design for Ethical product

This is about that utilizes and invests in traditional craft skills in the UK and abroad. It is about ethical production which supports and values workers rights, and the sourcing of fair trade material. What is ethical production means, and how it differs for each scale of production and manufacture.

some product are made under increasingly competitive and unethical conditions where companies charm out product without thinking of labour or worker. This strategy aims to support fair trade; promoting international standards of ethical productions, labour, and environmental policies in the trading of products. This includes payment at a fair price, gender equality and sanitary working conditions, the materials used also need to sourced ethically. Fair trade products include many products from local area.

The practice of traditional indigo dying, used by farmers and villagers in the past, had disappeared from Thailand in the past 50 years.Upon graduating, she invited her mother to reform the traditional natural indigo dyed techniques with her. Her journey took her from the depth of forests, searching for the elusive indigo seed, to the local markets to find the experts of indigo dying from times gone by.As a result, Mae Teeta is proud to be among the few artisans that help preserve this natural and local heritage of Thailand. The indigo dyed textiles form art and craft the label’s produced with personal passion from quality raw materials. Materials are 100% local harvested cotton and 100% natural indigo dyed, no synthetic chemicals added. The processes used have remained unchanged for centuries, and the label provides innovative designs while consciously continuing the charm of this heritage.

The practice of traditional indigo dying, used by farmers and villagers in the past, had disappeared from Thailand in the past 50 years.Upon graduating, she invited her mother to reform the traditional natural indigo dyed techniques with her. Her journey took her from the depth of forests, searching for the elusive indigo seed, to the local markets to find the experts of indigo dying from times gone by.As a result, Mae Teeta is proud to be among the few artisans that help preserve this natural and local heritage of Thailand. The indigo dyed textiles form art and craft the label’s produced with personal passion from quality raw materials. Materials are 100% local harvested cotton and 100% natural indigo dyed, no synthetic chemicals added. The processes used have remained unchanged for centuries, and the label provides innovative designs while consciously continuing the charm of this heritage.

6 - Design that looks at Models from Nature & History

In this strategy is about how are we use inspiration from natural and history in the past to adapt in sustainable textile. As the textile designer, I consider how much textile designers can find inspiration and information for future sustainable design from studying and reflecting nature as well as textiles, habits and social of the past. Now, social has interested by using textile materials from local than before for example, flex and hemp from Europe, bark close from Asia. As industrial machine use material from the natural world but in the possible ways now we can learn from nature and how we can captivated to naturally provided solution for us. For instant, We used fibre from pants get attach to animal fur, and used spider cell or spiderweb can be inspired development new textile technology to the world. In my opinion, this strategy used and award a natural intelligent and the human intelligent from past, culture and tradition then apply acknowledge to develop the most sustainable systems

"...the accumulated past is lift's best resource for innovation ...reinventing beats inventing nearly every time." Stewart Brand

Examples:

• Shape-memory polymers to mimic natural movement
• 'Lotus effect' nano-coatings
• Velcro
• Austerity repair
• Make-do-and-mend
• D.I.Y/punk customization
• Modern nomads
• Historic dying/ printing techniques

Mortortex

Morphotex butterfly which used the scales on their wings to reflect the light in different ways in order to maintain a vivid, bright blue with shimmer in their wings.

"Teijin Fibers Ltd. started the commercial production of Morphotex, which is an unstained, structurally colored fibre. This technology is based on the biomimetic conception for the microscopic structure of Morpho butterfly's wing, Thin films of 70 nm thickness consisting either of polyester or nylon are laminated in 61 layers alternatively, and four types of basic colors such as red, green, blur and violet are allowed to be developed by precisely controlling the layer thickness according to visible wavelength. Morphotex has wide applications, e.g. filament, short-cut fiber and powdery materials." kenkichi (2005)

This dress is purely a trick of the light, Sydney designer Donna Sgro used Morphotex a technology-based, structurally colored fibre that mimics the microscopic structure of the Morpho butterfly's wings. Manufactured in Teijin, Japan, morphotex requires no inks, dyes or pigments, nor excessive water consumption or industrial waste as no energy is being used.

This project is really inspired me, because basically I'm interesting in textile technology. I knew an traditional dye technique is still useful for now. Moreover in Thailand Thai Silk is very poplar product in Thailand and very famous in the world. Thai Silk has unique quality and shine, they have reflect with the light. For this project, I realize that we can use new technology create a new fibre for same quality as made from nature material with out any dyes.



Reference


Chua, J Malik. (2010) "Morphotex" Dress Mimics Butterfly Wing Shimmer--Without Any dyes. [Online] Available from: <http://www.ecouterre.com/morphotex-dress-mimics-butterfly-wing-shimmer-without-any-dyes/> [Accessed 4 January 2015]

5 - Design that explores clean/better technologies

This strategy explored how replacing systems of production with less energy consuming and smarter technologies to reduce environmental impacts. That are not only better for environment but are also maintainable. If we want to produce garments which are more ecologically friendly then we should make sure that all the procedures used in the design process are cleaner and better than before.

Example: 

• Bio-based materials and processes
• 3-D printing
• Laser
• Water-jet
• Sonic cutting
• Sonic welding
• Digital printing
• 'Re-surfacing' of polyester
• Novel dying technologies
• Digital finishing
• Tagging

All of this are smarter technologies to reduce environment impacts and help us to save time for produces there product in short timing. I though I would try to uncover new and brilliant ways to produce objects/garments and identify innovative technology.

Ever & Again (2007)

This project experimented with sonic cutting and slitting to reshape the shirts, and fusing digital sublimation printing with heat photogram printing. For This she had to translate her heat photogram print design, which used real objects like wire and leaves, into digital repeat using photoshop. 

After I read her project, I explored some research of photogram print as well. I came to realize it was an economic and ecological way of printing as a little waste was generated from the process but they made a short time to process it as well. For this a reason that made me interested and like in digital printing and some technology that can related to created textile. For instant, laser cutting, 3-D printing, digital textile, heat pressing, and heat pleating as well. 

In order to, make mark-making, sometime I would like to choose heat transfer color papers and polyester as a medium for made fabric in design. Moreover, I like this technique, because sometime you will get the different outcome which you are not realize than before. And you never know what kind of result you can get.

My inspired most is consider rethinking the up cycling fabrics, developing them in order to make people close to nature than before. That is a good way which people could get inspirations from nature/environment. In my opinion, now a day textile is not only create some beautiful fabric but also thinking about how are they combination between technologies and science together. Further more some of new technology can created new and amazing garments that consumer unexpected before.

Reference

Upcycling Textiles. (n.d.) Ever & Again(2007).[Online]. Available at:<http://www.upcyclingtextiles.net/#/fashion/> [Accessed on 3 January 2015]

2 - Design for Cyclability

This strategy concern about a process of converting waste material or useless products into new product or as same as never was product of better quality or a higher, friendly environment value. To a product through the process of recycling  by itself or human-made ( reuse, repair, recycle, reading,).  By taking some of items that is old or non-use and giving a new design or remade in a better way to creating a new product. From old product. they will cut, change, and edit some part for renew. From all of these scrap fabrics are still functional, beautiful, and useable again. This is a incredibly beneficial to the environment. For example, a old jacket jeans they can remade from jacket to a bag or cut long jacket sleeve to short sleeve as a new design. 

Incredible Upcycled Gown Made From 1,000 Newspaper Cranes.

This origami dress was created by Yuliya Kypro. She turned 1000 paper cranes into a dress. She assembled her headlining bustier dress (complete with a flowing peacock train. This dress piece is not only stunning to audience but also help Eco friendly, she painstakingly folded each and every one of the origami bird from old Metro newspaper. 

Reference

Ecouterre,. (2010) Incredible Upcycled Gown Made From 1,000 Newspaper Cranes. [Internet]. Available from: <http://www.ecouterre.com/extreme-origami-an-upcycled-gown-made-from-1000-newspaper-cranes/> [Accessed: 22 December 2014]

TOP

Sustainable Textile.

Now a day, human have create new technology for convenience their life. Textile is part of garment. They are very important part of human life. Some technology had affect to nature and environment. People become more concern about an environment issues in textile industries.

Sustainable Textile has become important than before as well as people give important in healthy life. Eco part has become important in Textile. They have many researches for improvement the environment and health of worker in textile world. Which this reason I am choose Sustainable Textile for TOP.