Melissa Lockwood

Pattern waste area fabrics used to make clothing instead of being sent to the landfills

These items are made with mass production pattern layout waste.

I applied radial projection to the stacks of same shape pieces.  The pieces are the discard areas of the pattern layout.  

30% of the fabric layed out for pattern placement and cutout is thrown away.

I desised a system the utilises these pattern areas as design areas.  I create a cylindar with the waste shape.  This is done without altering the shapes.  

The design of garments made with mass production waste is shockingly simple.

You just measure the width and lenght of the pieces and see how many will be needed to create a cylindar the is equal to the garment size you want to create.

Surprisingly any size can be created as you just determine size by math, adding or subtracting the number of pieces you need.

All of these garments were made with fabric I actually pulled from fashion industry waste fabric containers.  The fabrics were going to the landfill.

Factory waste fabrics are the stacks of same shape pieces thrown away in massive quantities during manufacturing.

More garments can be made when fashion designers look to the spaces between their usual design area to the same shape pieces that are created and thrown away during manufacturing.

With a compartmentalised industry designers dont usually see the cuting out in mass production. 

The cutting out  of garments takes place in factories by other people.  

It seems designers didn’t think to design into these same shape multiple piece stacks of fabric because they didnt notice it?

Designers can look at the shapes between their originally intended garment pieces and design additional garments from the waste areas.

Radial Geometry