MAPPING OF TEXTILE WASTE IN BANGALORE CITY
There are multiple sources that produce textile waste in Bangalore city. The project aimed to create high value garments and extend life-cycles of garments and cloth. There is textile waste being generates from the household to the factory level. The map below aims to trace the journey of a rejected piece of fabric. Reject pieces of fabric include the cut pieces after patter cutting, faulty prints, weaves, unsold cloth ,secondhand garments. It can broadly be classified as pre-consumer and post consumer waste. The mapping below mainly focuses on pre-consumer waste.
Pictures to the right show different scenarios of textile waste in the city. It shows how in many cases the waste is just dumped and sent to a landfill without it being re-purposed for any other product. The second picture shows how there is so much waste unused fabric left over after pattern cutting in various garment factories
EXPLORATIONS WITH REJECT FABRIC AFTER PATTERN CUTTING
Waste pieces of cloth after pattern cutting shirt factory
Surface Manipulation exploration
GARMENT USING DENIM POCKET WASTE FROM EMBROIDERY FACTORY
The exploration was about using embroidery factory waste- denim pockets in the same form that they have been discarded. I aimed to use the shape to create the fabric.The pockets are discarded when there is a fault in the embroidery and when there is an excess.
GARMENT USING WASTE FABRIC FROM SHIRT FACTORY
This exploration was about creating a jacket out of shirt factory waste. After pattern cutting large pieces of cloth get discarded. I explored how patchwork could be put to use in this scenario to use the waste generated to make high value products
