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]

3 - Design to reduce Chemical Impacts

3rd strategy focuses on using the appropriate process and material selections for any product to minimize environment impact. It attempts to cut down on harmful chemical processes for example devore, chemical dyes etc. It include seek natural dyed, raw material, using organic, and non-chemical decorative procedures materials for create effects to replace material and processes know to be harmful such as laser cutting.

Atelier Rwanda: natural did in Rwanda

Natural dye in Rwanda by atelier Rwanda is a research based project that explore the full cycle of natural dying in contemporary textile production in Rwanda. At this time, Rwanda's local textile market is base on imported fabrics. They are known as 'african fabrics' are mostly designed outside Africa. The propose of this project is explore design possibilities in filed of textile while using local product each as fabrics and natural dyes pigment and the skills to support the identity of there local culture.

In Rwanda, there is no tradition of textile dying although the method does exist in the region's basketry crafts. In this project was followed by implementation, where the craft-man designed a series of shoes and scarves. The scarves made from natural dyed pigment with plant fibers and basketry technique. For created a local textile with a highly textile expression, which can be easily produced with available materials and methods.

Reference

David, Maya Ben,. (2011) Atelier Rwanda: natural did in Rwanda. Available from: <http://www.designboom.com/design/atelier-rwanda-natural-dye-in-rwanda/> [Accessed on: 24 December 2014]