Benefit from Multi-Axial Textiles in Leather Products and Wastes Upcycling to Raise the Aesthetic Values of Women’s Clothes

Abstract

Towards green environment the trend to reuse wastes instead of their disposal that harm our planet is growing recently. Upcycling leather wastes is important aspect to achieve sustainability. Handmade weaving by multiaxial weave's structures is somewhat new to be used in women's fashion clothes. This paper discusses the upcycling of old items and leather wastes created at the cutting stage during leather goods production. Converting leather wastes into stripes with different widths and weaving in weaves (tri-axial, quart, hexagonal structures) with different patterns, using handloom. The innovated produced muti-axial weaves are applied in sustainable women's clothes, designs are created by using both 3D virtual CLO and Adobe Photoshop software. 95% of questionnaire respondents agree that the multi-axis leather weaves achieve the concept of sustainability. After gathering expert 's opinions, design No. 3, 16, 1, 10, 8, 13, and 4 by sequence, are achieved the best results in achieving aesthetic added value.