Zero Waste Pattern Making
Zero-Waste Pattern Making.
Zero-waste pattern making takes account of how the whole fabric can be utilized in a garment throughout the development of the pattern.
Ensuring that garment production has no textile waste.
The fashion industry currently has an industry wide tolerance of 15% fabric waste rate.
For example, a t-shirt requires an average of 1.6m of a 147cm width of fabric to make it. A collective of 24cm of that fabric is scraped and thrown away.
Fabric scrap is difficult to reuse and expensive to recycle. The scrap is left up to the manufacturers to deal with.
Zero waste pattern making uses the whole fabric available, eliminating the need to dispose scraps or polluting the environment with unnecessary waste.
My work with Zero waste patternmaking was between Airetage apparel brand from Las Vegas USA and my brand Auster Breeze.
Zero Waste Garments
following are some of the zero waste garments I’ve made
