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In recent years, green and environment-friendly textile materials are more and more favored by the public. Making degradable textile materials from natural fibers is one of the means to reduce pollution and make rational use of resources. In this paper, plants such as fireweed, silvergrass and corn, which are easy to grow, have high yield, low raw material cost and broad market prospect, are selected as the research object. Through experiments on their cellulose content and spinnability technology, the influence of plant cellulose content on weavability is explored. It is expected that it can be better used in garment and textile design in the future.
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Sustainable design is a design method which takes economy, environment, ethic and society into fully consideration. It aims to design products that satiate the current needs and guarantee the future development for the later generations. “In recent years, researchers and practitioners are devoted to environment sustainability in fashion and textile industry (Caniato et al., 2012).” Palomo-Lovinski and Hahn (2014) cited that “sustainable practices in clothing have not, thus far, created a significant impact and instead continue to be largely marginalized within the fashion industry.” From this, we can conclude that the top priority should be about how to settle and improve these problems. Reiley and DeLong (2011) concluded that “sustainability in fashion is going to require transformative changes in the practices of all involved: designers, manufacturers, marketers, and consumers. But consumers especially need a vision for sustainable fashion practice.” Under these conditions, it is difficult for companies to make changes in design methods, product qualities and materials. Thus, designers should take responsibility to seek other ways for change.
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“The increasing public awareness and sense of social responsibility related to environmental issues have led the textile industry to manufacture products with improved environmental profile (Chen and Burns, 2006)”. This would require designers to develop new ideas to recycle products and use wasted materials for new designs. It could bring new ideas to products, save materials and also be economically beneficial. Such trends, together with a sustainable design concept, have gained popularity among the public. There is a consensual view that any new design should have minimal impact on the environment whilst achieving high standards.
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In this project, sustainable design refers to design that could make progress in nature, economy and science. It should also be beneficial to human environment and resources. The natural property of my design is to pursue an optimal combination of Eco-system and design concept. The key step is to discover in nature and recycle the waste by obtaining raw materials from wasted plants. Wastes could be design into products and its pollution could also be avoided. By recycling wastes could create maximum benefit, a risk-free return. Without putting any harm to natural resources, it maximally increases the products’ economic benefits. For the technical part, with preference toward clean and effective technology, we aim to achieve real sustainable design by reducing the waste of energy and other natural resources in design process through establishing a craft and technical system which produces little waste and pollution.
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By sifting raw material, extracting fiber, and further study in doctor’s program, we intend to choose an appropriate method to mostly increase the weavability of plants, so raw materials could be more effectively changed into fabrics.
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The Experiment of Cellulose
Location: China Agricultural University
Name: Jichi Wu
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Materials
Musa basjoo leaves, Silvergrass inflorescence, Peace lily(Spathiphyllum) roots, Stalks of Musa basjoo leaves, Corn stigma, Musa basjoo barks, Silvergrass leaves, Kudz vines, Corn bran
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Reagents
Sodium hydroxide solution (2%), Hydrogen peroxide solution (5%), Liquid nitrogen, Distilled water
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Devices
Mortar, Scissors, Precision balance (readability 0.0001 g), Centrifugal tube (50 ml), Centrifugal tube rack, Pipette, Beaker, Funnel, Filter paper, Titration flask, Centrifugal tube (2 ml), Water bath, Incubator
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Steps
Grinding: Scissor appropriate samples into mortar; add liquid nitrogen to freeze the samples and grind them into powder.
Weighing: weigh 0.5–1.5 g of ground samples and put them into centrifugal tubes (50 ml).
Heated bath: (1) add 10 ml of sodium hydroxide solution (2%) into centrifugal tubes mentioned above; shake the tubes well, put them into water bath(100 ℃) for 90 min before taking them out; (2) add 10 ml of hydrogen peroxide solution (5%) into every tube; shake them well; let the tubes stand still at room temperature till large amount of colorless bubbles are produced; put the tubes into water bath (75 ℃) for 30 min and take them out to cool to room temperature.
Filter: shake the samples well and slowly pour them into funnel to filter.
Drying: pack the filtered samples with filter paper and dry them in incubator (65 ℃) for one night.
Weighing: weigh the dried samples and preserve them in centrifugal tubes (2 ml).
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Result:
The experiment result is shown below:
Sample no
Name
Sample weight (g)
Final product weight (g)
Cellulose content (%)
1
Musa basjoo leaves
1.00
0.008
0.80
2
Silvergrass inflorescence
0.50
0.053
10.60
3
Peace lily (Spathiphyllum) roots
1.50
0.040
2.67
4
Stalks of Musa basjoo leaves
1.00
0.016
1.60
5
Fireweed
1.00
0.060
6.00
6
Corn stigma
0.50
0.087
17.40
7
Musa basjoo barks
1.00
0.180
18.00
8
Silvergrass leaves
1.00
0.005
0.50
9
Kudz vines
1.00
0.094
9.40
10
Corn bran
1.00
0.397
39.70
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Wu, J., Zhou, Y. (2022). An Investigation into the Weavability of Plants and Their Application in Fashion and Textile Design. In: Duffy, V.G., Rau, PL.P. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Papers: Ergonomics and Product Design. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13522. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21704-3_37
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