Yarn Design & Recycling in Industry: Designing a Yarn Product for the Construction Knitting Projects - This project in 2010 entailed working with a local New Zealand woollen mill to use up their remnant fibres from previous production runs. When I researched yarn production I found that the manufacturing and processing of wool is either dominated by mass production on one end of the scale or hobbycraft on the other. Mass production quantities out-scale a niche design product for cost viability, and hobby craft out-costs an end product for a competitive wholesale and retail resale. The discovery of waste fibre at this local spinning mill solved this problem of fibre supply resource meeting production viability for a niche product. Instead of concealing the base material of the rainbow of coloured fibres pre-spinning, I chose to exploit the recycled characteristics of the yarn blend. When spun the yarn has a mashed mix of yarn colour with indiscriminate random dots of pure colour that remain throughout the yarn. This is an aesthetic proclamation of industrial innovation faithful to its process and purpose, a solution relevant to a growing post-mass-industrial awareness. Recipient of 2011 Melbourne Design Awards: https://betterfutureawards.com/mda2011/project.asp?ID=10072
