Learn how to integrate zero waste pattern making & marker making into your current production and design process in order to create less fabric waste. Taught in person by Emma La Rocca.

OPEN TO ALL: Students, Teachers, Large/Small Business, Individuals
SATURDAY 20.APRIL.2024 or SUNDAY 21.APRIL.2024
1pm-4pm at Papamoa Library

Method:

1. Choose a design sketch that you would like to make OR a finished pattern, marker or layplan that you would like to recreate with zero waste. You will save time by minimising your patterns, markers and layplans at home to 10% size either by hand or by printing them off in a smaller scale. We can also minimise your pattern size in class.
2. We'll start with a visual introduction to the design processes of other zero waste designers. This will give examples of some techniques that we can explore in class.
3. Working in pairs or as a designer/patternmaker alone create a zero or minimal waste marker for your chosen design.

Tools to bring:

Pens & pencils, Sketch books / paperPattern making equipment - eg. Awl, pencil, ruler, setsquare, scissors (If working on a computer) Laptop with your pattern making / marker making programmes. You will need Adobe illustrator or Inkscape for this task.