It is the antithesis of the numbingly correct Calvin-Giorgio approach to textile design.
Lack of basic information on the structure and properties of fibres limited understanding, delaying a scientific approach to textile processing.
Nanotechnology-based textile coating is a combined approach to textile engineering which mainly relies on using nanoscale materials and novel methods to produce smart finishing.
Suzanne Lee has been experimenting with a new approach to textile manufacturing growing it.
Inspired by permaculture, Duerr believes in a slower approach to textile dying -- she founded the Permacouture Institute to help advance Slow Textiles -- both as a way to respect the environment, but also because she believes that plant-based color is more beautiful, and truly alive.
Much of the prior research examining DfE approaches to textile and apparel design has involved model building and prototyping.
Further, this statement demonstrates the need to possess knowledge beyond the realm of design, such as, how organic fibers are produced as well as industry standards related to DfE approaches to textile design.
DfE approaches to textile and apparel design include: cradle to cradle (Gam et al. 2009), design for disassembly (Gam et al. 2011), slow design (Clark, 2008), and green fashion design (Kim, 2010).
Asked about approaches to e-textile recycling, John Volakis, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State University who is designing a wearable antenna, said, "I have no idea, not my expertise at all".
Findings provide a basis for future examinations of DfE-oriented approaches to interior textile product design, particularly among designers who are employed in professional settings (rather than classroom settings).
The implication is that the processes undertaken by DfE designers do not necessarily differ from conventional approaches to interior textile product design, but rather that these processes are expanded to include consideration of multiple human health and environmental factors or impacts.
