International Textile and Apparel Association 2015: Celebrating the Unique (ITAA) Annual Conference Proceedings Nov 12th, 12:00 AM Precious Circle—Zero-waste Design Elahe Saeidi University of Alabama,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/itaa_proceedings Part of the Fashion Design Commons Saeidi, Elahe and Wimberley, Virginia, "Precious Circle—Zero-waste Design" (2015). International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Annual Conference Proceedings. 64. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/itaa_proceedings/2015/design/64 This Event is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences and Symposia at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) Annual Conference Proceedings by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 2015 Proceedings Santa Fe, New Mexico Precious Circles – Zero Waste Design Elahe Saeidi, Virginia Wimberley, University of Alabama, USA Keywords: Zero-waste, design, tessellation, sustainable With the contemporary methods of fashion construction only effectively using 85 percent of fabric in a garment, 15 percent of the total fabric is left on the cutting room floor (Cooklin, 1979). This waste occurs because pattern pieces have irregular shapes, which make them difficult to interlock perfectly to be able to use 100 percent of fabric length and width. This waste is leaving a significant ecological footprint. Different ways of eliminating the negative space around pattern pieces by manipulating these pattern pieces have been identified by McQuillan (2011). One practice design is tessellation, which consists of one shape or motif that repeats to fill the width and length of the fabric.