From Scraps to Sustainability
Reimagining Fiber Waste
This project, completed during an exchange semester at Hochschule Pforzheim, Germany, delves into sustainable materials, highlighting European flax and hemp for their eco-friendly and versatile potential. The aim is to approach design in a networked, creative, and future-relevant way with expert industry guidance. Responding to climate challenges, the project uses local raw materials to inspire interdisciplinary, research-based design and knowledge sharing under the theme "Material Innovations and Future Technologies," fostering sustainable applications of bast fibers.
“Material Innovation and Future Technologies”
Sachsenleinen is a German nonprofit connecting natural fibres from agriculture to sustainable applications in textiles, composites, and eco-friendly materials. They focus on high-quality, custom fibres and help companies adopt eco-friendly practices across the production chain.
Bast fibers such as flax and industrial hemp are among the oldest cultivated plants in Europe and hold great future potential in terms of sustainable & innovative production
15-20%
of global textile production ends up as waste before it reaches consumers.
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Pre-consumer waste
Post consumer waste
Textile waste
Pre-consumer waste
Defective Fabric & Production Errors -
Unsold Inventory -
Offcuts & Scraps -
Experimenting with the scrapes of the fiber & fabric to give new life to the waste material
Bioplastics + Bast Fibers (Flax and Hemp)
Manufactured material
Scrapes
Starch based
Gelatin based
Manufactured material
Product Development from Material Combinations
Contact Lens Accessories
Scrap Bioplastics & Bast Fibers
Hard Case
