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.

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]

MILCH Upcycles Trousers, Shirts into Menswear-Inspired Eco-Fashion

Milch has always liked to borrow clothes from boys. There is one way to always get the menswear-inspired to womens'. The designer named MILCH, is dutch designer who steals, borrow, and pick an idea and design from the lads. They used refashioning secondhand men's garment such as men's trousers and shirts to create, adapt, design into gender-bending womenswear. Foe instant, Milch picked a boy white t-shirt to created a long dress (Tencel men's shirts into dresses, skirts, blouses, and hats with a play-around a new design).

" We pay attention to ecological and socio-cultural aspects in the production chain as a whole," says Cloed Priscilla Baumgartner, MILCH's designer and founder. "The raw material [men's suits and shirts which have been laid aside] comes fromVienna and is processed in responsible factories."

This is an amazing garment!!!! I am very appreciate in avant guard design. In the present, fashion and textiles industries in the 65percent of clothes they throw away go strange to a land fill. Which is a waste way and destroy environment as well. As a designer we can do for save and reused a product for global. We should rethinking again in design or product when we need to remade it again. This company has very great idea for use a second hand or old shit for redesign to use in other gender. That is means they can provide the product cross over use only one gender. Moreover, They uses leftover old cloths to make a new garment that is not only visually appealing but environmentally friendly as well.

Reference

Chua, Jasmin Malik,. (2010) MILCH Upcycles Trousers, Shirts into Menswear-Inspired Eco-Fashion. Available from: <http://www.ecouterre.com/milch-upcycles-trousers-shirts-into-menswear-inspired-eco-fashion/> [Accessed: 22 December 2014]

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]

1 - Design to Minimize Waste

Now a day, Environment has attack by human. Human have created and used maximize waste than before. In this reason, environment has many pollution affect by human activity. Everyone is responsible for damaging the environment. Not only personal but also included natural, environmental, social, and economy (macro-, micro). They are all impact to our responsible. We can do at small area is the amount of waste product by man-made to changed by recycle.

In textile and fashion industry concern about design to minimize waste. As a designer,  it is not only recycle garment but also include zero waste cutting, and introduces an idea to used avoid producing stuff that doesn't work, or don't need. For example, a piece of fabric pattern can re-made to new garment, design product with multifunction use, etc.

“Of the total textile fibre produced, up to 65% is lost, post-consumer, to landfill, incineration or composting, which represents between 400,000 and 700,000 tonnes per annum in the UK. Of this, at least 50% is said to be recyclable” (Allwood, 2006)

Holly Mcquilian - Twinset: Embedded Zero Waste 

 A percent of the fabric is wasted in the manufacturing of a garment is not much. When a pattern of fabric is cut out, the leftover scrap fabrics are usually useless. Holly Mcquilian is one of designer who used zero waste cutting for garment. She created a pattern that fit in another part of garment perfectly.

 

                                              Figure1 Embedded Zero-Waste dress, vest and pant 

                                             Figure2 Embedded Zero-Waste Hoody and Tshirt

                                                Figure3 Embedded Zero-Waste Pant and Jacket. 

Embedded Zero-Waste Hoody and TshirtEmbedded Zero-Waste Hoody and Tshirt

Embedded Zero-Waste Hoody and Tshirt

Twinset: Embedded Zero Waste Project are three pattern which explore the possibility of embedded multiply garment in one pattern. In a piece of pattern, they have a different component of garment such as collar, sleeve, etc. 

This is a good idea that has possibility to success.  That is decrease fabric scarps in each garment. It is an extremly successful techniques as it not only minimize watse but also allow the customer to participate in the design process. For me as a textile designer, they are important part to consider about composition, scale, layout, proportion, and distribution of design to explore on garment pattern. Moreover, I create a garment that present a pattern on part of body. There are very useful to use a scarp of pattern to fill it. Furthermore, in my color project, they have some scarps from a part of my prototype collar as well. So in the second prototype, I tried to organize a collar pattern to fit well on to the fabric for leave less fabric scars as more as I can.

References

McQuilian, H. (2011) Twinset: Embedded Zero Waste. [Internet]. Available from: <http://hollymcquillan.com/design-practice/twinset-embedded-zero-waste/> [Accessed: 30 October 2014]


Tedresearch,. (n.d.) Ted's Ten 1 - Design to Minimize Waste. [Internet]. Available from: <http://www.tedresearch.net/1-minimise-waste/> [Accessed: 30 October 2014]