Background: from traditional crafts to smart textile services
Crafts & smart textiles for sustainability
The environmental and societal concerns risen from textile and garment production areas, are well known and covered by now (Allwood, Laursen, de Rodriguez, & Bocken, 2006; Aus, 2011; Fletcher, 2008). The development of smart textile products, which lie in the intersection of fashion and technology, raises additional sustainability challenges for the traditional garment and electronics industries. The ecological concerns have been covered in the PhD thesis of Köhler (Köhler, 2013). Textiles and technology, both innovation and fashion driven industries, have their share in the global consumption pace and the concerns involved. However,
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Sewing needles are believed to be around already thirty thousand years. The insights regarding sustainability from the long tradition have been noticed and translated for the developing entirely new area of smart textiles. The aim is to regain some of the long-lived principles such as quality, individualised approach (tailoring) and value for handwork that got neglected when moving towards efficiency and standardisation. Smart textiles allow new values and ways of use to emerge into the textile industry. With their dynamic properties and collaborative approach (Bhömer, Tomico, Kleinsmann, Kuusk, & Wensveen, 2012) they call for a radical change in the garment industry. For radical change, paradigms need to change rather than the materials we use, the way garments have been made, or how many times we use one cradle-to-grave item. “There’s nothing physical or expensive or even slow about paradigm change. In a single individual it can happen in a millisecond. All it takes is a click in the mind, a new way of seeing” (Meadows, 1997, p. 11). Therefore, it is important to consider the new dimensions the properties of the smart materials open …show more content…
It has gone through a lot of changes in the recent past, including going from single color to stripes, from reddish brown color to reddish and orange, the usual stripes got accompanied by patterned stripes, lower edge got decorated with a crochet lace. Since the 1930s a lemon yellow skirt with a flower-embroidered border has been iconic to the island. (Puppart, 2011) QR-coded Embroidery (Figure 1) concept is realised in a project showing fairy-tales. A pillows embedded with embroidered folkloric Quick Response (QR) codes that when scanned start showing a video of a fairy-tale. The fairy-tale originates from the same region as the patterns and colors used as an inspiration in the embroidery design. The QR code embroidered on top of a textile can be scanned with any freely available QR scaning software. The application needs the Internet connection to open the resulting website with the video in the smartphone browser. The website can be updated constantly, therefore it can show different fairytales in different times of the day, months of the year
A movie poster is used to pull people in and to make them interested in going to see the movie. The poster for the movie Steel Magnolias, directed by Herbert Ross, simply uses images of the six main female characters. Steel Magnolias is a movie about six women living in the small southern town of Chinquapin Parrish, Louisiana, who share a strong bond of friendship and who must deal with the death of one of one of their friends. The movie reveals the strength and softness of these six women as they deal with the joys and heartaches of life, thus the title Steel Magnolias.
The novel makes a naturalism argument about ambition in that humans are ever reaching for that which they do not have, but are thwarted by factors out of their control. Starting at the top of the social hierarchy, the story illustrates that the wealthy will stay comfortable within their class, take advantage of others’ desire to ascend all the while barring them entrance to the upper echelons of society. The Buchanans, that exemplify the upper class, are unsatisfied with both their marriage and station in life and seek happiness outside of their social class. In this, the reader is constantly bombarded with color symbolism when it comes to these two.
Story Flag Quilt African-American artist, Faith Ringgold, is known primarily for her quilt-based works, a medium that has been historically regarded as a craft and not art form. In Story Flag Quilt (1985), however, the artist successfully fuses narrative, politics and crafts in a manner that transcends the medium itself. Ringgold’s vivid story painting quilts shows reflections of different stories of her life as a child. Ringgold composed a rectangular quilt with American flag-type organization piece of art entitled “The Story Flag” by using acrylic on a dyeing 57 by 78 inch canvas painted and pieced in fabric. In addition, she uses line, shape, value and texture to depict the points she was trying to make.
QUOTE (PG. #) SYMBOL COMMENTARIES “In color the shell was deep cream, touched here and there with a fading pink. Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen Inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with the delicate embossed pattern” (16). conch The conch represents civilization.
In what ways is “The Rabbits” an allegorical text? The Rabbits is an allegorical text as it’s a representation for the British colonisation of Australia along with the segregation and devastation which took place, from the perspective of Indigenous people. Marsupial like creatures are dispossessed of their community, country and families by invading rabbits who took drastic actions to civilise them. The rabbits arrived associated with all the accessories of European culture, including their clothes, agriculture, industry and economy and proceeded to abuse the land to the extent of devastation, which references the negative impact European settlers had on Australia’s environment, and steal the marsupial’s children, which refers to the stolen
The evolution of fashion industry should be in trend with the technology developments. Technology is the driver of transformation supported by government incentives. The options could be as below • Fabrics used should be new high-tech. Some examples could be nano-tech fabrics and programmable clothing, use of biodegradable non toxic spray-on clothing • Clothes for each could be designed using 3D body scanners which will allow people to “try on” clothes in virtual mirrors and interactive screens • Switching to a “low-carbon” economy based on renewable
Second Assignment – Annotated Bibliography and Thesis Statement by Cheryl Chi Yue Leung (214185045) York University NATS 1840 15th January 2016 Thesis: How material elements of the modern fast fashion practice reinforce the meanings of unethical production, and thus explain low prices come with low product quality and negative environmental and social impacts Annotated Bibliography 1) Anguelov, N. CRC Press. (September 2015) The dirty side of the garment Industry: fast fashion and its negative impact on environment and society.
In Duong Thu Huong’s Paradise of the Blind, Hang has been placed on a path of self-sacrifice and duty by her family. Her life unfolds in stages- childhood, young adulthood, and her eventual role as an exported worker in Russia. With each of these shifts in her life comes a shift in setting and a shift in her emotional state. Hang’s changing emotional state depicts her “coming of age” and her growth as a character. Setting is important to creation of shift in the novel, and is often described in detail.
Artificial intelligence is widely applied in different fields, such as medicine, engineering and design. Fashion industry is one of the industries that artificial intelligence applications are used in production processes. There are four operation processes of the fashion industry: fashion design, manufacturing, retailing, and supply chain management. The fashion industry, or called apparel industry, is the industry engaged in manufacturing garments and accessories and it is one of the most significant economic sectors in the world. Design, manufacturing and retailing are the three compulsory processes for a fashion item from designers and sold to customers.
In order to explicitly analysis the clothing industry, emphasis must be laid on Textile
Design Technology’s Impact on the Graphic Design Industry Graphic design is a visual communication methodology and problem solving using type, space and image. It is a subset of communication design and visual communication. Graphic designers use typography, page layout and visual art techniques to produce their final results. Technological innovation has affected the graphic design industry in America among other countries. In today’s world, technology has been applied in people’s lives either as socialization or as a working tool.