Your Favorite Shirt is Contributing to Waste – Learn What You Can Do About It! #fashion #shorts

5 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker explains how conventional cut‑and‑sew garment production generates substantial fabric waste because fabric is cut into irregular shapes for armholes, necklines, and varying sizes, leaving off‑cuts that are discarded. They contrast this with 3D knitting technology, where the entire garment is produced in one seamless piece directly from the machine, eliminating the need for cutting and sewing and thereby dramatically reducing waste. The speaker mentions a demonstration video on their website showing two panels emerging simultaneously from a 3D knitting machine with no seams, illustrating the process.

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Most garments are cut and sewn together. So you're taking a yard of fabric, you're cutting it, sewing it together. There's a lot of waste that comes off of the side of it. 'Cause if you imagine like a t-shirt, like that is not a square shape by any means, you know, you have armholes and— Necklines. Necklines and yeah, exactly. And people have different sizes and fits. So a lot of fabric gets wasted during that process. In 3D knitting, the whole garment is coming out in a finished form. So you don't have to do any sewing afterwards. It's like hard to visualize. We have a video on our website, but like both panels are coming out of the machine at the same time and there are no seams.