Zero-waste design strives to create clothing patterns that leave not so much as a scrap of fabric on the cutting room floor. This is not some wacky avant-garde exercise; it’s a way to eliminate ...

In 2015, Professor Rissanen, 47, wrote, with Holly McQuillan, a book called “Zero Waste Fashion Design,” a term it defined as “fashion design that wastes no fabric, by integrating pattern ...

Bonsai, Cone Denim’s first 100 percent post-industrial recycled cotton denim fabric, is used throughout ... Jeanologia and Decode founder and zero-waste designer Danielle Elsener to create ...

One designer’s surplus fabric is Daniel Silverstein’s treasure. The creator of ecofriendly genderless clothing and accessories brand Zero ... make a pattern where there was no waste, they ...

an early attempt at zero-waste fashion. The process involved feeding a single piece of thread into an industrial weaving machine, programmed to spin an enormous, continuous tube of fabric.

CD: Zero-waste pattern cutting requires a different mindset ... and the end product usually reflects my design aesthetic. I love the look of fabric rectangles strategically cut and assembled ...

the sewers attempt a zero-waste pattern for a pair of trousers, which involves complex mathematical skills to work out how to create the pattern pieces without leaving a scrap of waste fabric.

Zero Waste Daniel never saw a fabric scrap he didn’t like. He’s seen a lot of pieces of woven fabric that ended on the cutting room floor of many a designer’s studio. He’s been collecting ...