DESIGN WITH RECLÉM
RECLÉM RESCUES TEXTILE WASTE
Rescuing textile waste with RECLÉM’s patented method not only revolutionizes the way that designers can design products, but it also restructures the textile goods production process.
BREAKING FROM THE STATUS QUO
For over 100 years, the traditional method below has been a standard for industrial design and production of textile goods. The RECLÉM rescue textile waste method is shaking up that arrangement. It keeps part of the traditional process and replaces two key phases – exchanging purchasing new fabric for processing textile waste, and instead of cutting the pattern placed on top of the fabric, the RECLÉM rescue textile waste method allows the designer to create a new textile by “painting” with textile waste inside of the pattern shape.
What takes RECLEM’s rescue textile waste process from craft to industrial applications?
Reinvents the textile supply chain
- Traditional manufacturing; new material = over 50% of apparel cost
- RECLÉM manufacturing; NO new material = Save cost & energy, lower carbon footprint
Reinvents the textile supply chain
- Average standard waste for apparel production markers ranges from 10% to 25% of material.
- Material is only placed inside the shape of the pattern pieces creating zero waste.
Maintains scalable product production.
- Cutting in quantity
- Automated stitching
- Marker 12’ wide and over 20 yards long
- Standardized for mass production
- Reproducible colorways & sizes
How would one accomplish all of these great things, you might ask?
Contact us to discuss:
- We collaborate with designers and manufacturers
- We license our patented method
- We consult with companies to improve the sustainability of their current manufacturing process.
Collect - textiles from cutting waste, unwanted clothing and textiles and dead stock fabric.
Cutting waste; the parts of the pattern left over when a new garment is cut out: the black part in image A (cutting by home sewers and sample making), the circled part in image B (cutting by industry).
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Unwanted clothing and textiles
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Deadstock textiles - Every season fashion companies have left over rolls of material that are no longer desirable. Those are called dead stock because they are typically unusable for the next season, as fashion is currently driven by change and novelty, and most affordably-priced clothing doesn’t change a lot in silhouette, but fabrics change from season to season.
Image Credit: Mary Ruppert-Stroescu
Process textiles *Unwanted clothing and textiles should be laundered before handling.
Sorting the unwanted clothing and textiles by fiber type, fabrication type, and color is important to create a bank of textiles ready to be rescued by transforming them into new products.
Stacking garments or fabric for cutting requires precision and accuracy.
Cutting layers of material or clothing must be done with industrial cutting tools by a trained specialist.
Stitching can be done freehand for 1 of 1 pieces, or automated on a sewing machine where the operator chooses the pattern, scales it to a desired density, and digitizes the shape of the pattern piece.
Finishing includes sewing, finishing edges, clipping threads, pressing, and overall quality control of the product.
Washing the stitched layers results in the biodegradable substrate disappearing and leaving a new and unique fabric.
