Community Empowerment Through Lace’s Waste Development

Abstract

Fashion trends develops and evolves from the said factors can describe pre-historic or social occurances that effects the way people dress and how it changes periodically in accordance to the social conditions and other influencing factors above. All fitting rooms from time to time can tell stories and reflect trend cycle on how people think and live. Therefore, clothes are inseparable from human’s life and it keeps changing accordingly to the era. The blooming of fashion trends in Indonesia, especially in big cities such as Bandung make the public demand for clothing and accessories are very high. So in the production process, the fashion industries produce waste or residual textile materials that can’tt be used anymore in the process of production. However, based on the observations results, the textile waste still can be processed into products as good as those produced by the fashion textile materials that in the intact categories.

Lace was chosen because based on previous observations, lace’s waste are easily obtainable in many places due to the production of clothing lace fabric which is widely used to make most women Indonesian kebaya and have kebaya needed in a variety of interests. And based on the results of studies that have been done before, lace fabrics(lace)has a strong aesthetic characteristics and has a range of advantages that are not owned by the rest of other textile materials.

By doing this processing of lace’s waste as the main material is expected to maximize the potential and also improve the aesthetic value that can become the alternative and enriched types of textile materials for high-quality fashion accessories products. And is expected to provide variation in terms of the increasingly prevalent and enthuses the fashion industry today. The lace’s waste development for textile products is also be expected to become  an alternative solution to waste reduction that caused by the industry's clothing or fashion accessories. As well as it can encourage domestic small industries that are expected to be the main producer in the processing of textile waste.

Keywords: Lace’s waste, eco-fashion, structure textile design