Detox Bio Embellishment

Excessories: Creating plastic-free textile accessories from excess waste.

This piece of work began by looking at wet textile processes and the potential harm they could cause to our waterways and in turn, biodiversity and the role food-waste can play to help resolve these issues, whilst creating textile trims.

Polymers found in fungi are clean pigment contaminants from wastewater which are transformed into luxurious bio-embellishments.

This method enhances efficiency by reusing 33% of material waste of cut-out excess, which can be dissolved and re-cured into sheets, this reduces production energy consumption. Our approach mitigates greenhouse gas emissions by upcycling waste and supporting renewable and circular systems.