Spiraling into Design Inspiration

This design, Spiraling into Design Inspiration, is an outcome of a continued investigation of the use of this spiral zero waste pattern. This pattern indirectly resulted from the investigation of Sanah Sharma’s Planar Flux Hybrid Clothing Technique. Patterns that are developed from a spiral reduce the amount of fabric needed to develop a garment, (Shama 2015). Looking for an innovative technique that would provide a sustainable solution to address pre-consumer textile waste, a double spiral pattern was developed that resembles a yin-yang. This pattern was used in several previous designs and the only vision for this design was to use the same basic pattern to create a jacket with voluminous sleeves accompanied with a skirt. There was no other preconceived concept for the design outcome prior to the draping of the separated spirals onto the half-scale form.