Excessories

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.

Food waste is added to textile dye wastewater where the resulting in clean water and pigmented polymer that is transformed into luxurious bio-embellishments. This design was inspired by footage capturing vibrant life underneath the Antarctic ice sheet.