Cloth(ing) for the dead: case study of three designers’ green burial practices

Michel, Gwendolyn M.; Lee, Young‐A

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“…When creating goods with a smaller impact on the environment in mind, designers can consider a variety of techniques, strategies materials, creative processes, and methodologies. The slow fashion, longevity design (Connor-Crabb et al, 2016), cradle-to-cradle design (Michel and Lee, 2017), and upgrade recycling and remanufacturing design (Han et al, 2017) are some strategies that have been suggested for designers to use to achieve sustainability. Innovations in products and processes have been created to produce better manufacturing methods that reduce harmful environmental consequences.…”

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A Systematic Review of Green Apparel Manufacturing

Jain,

Kalapurackal

2023

EREM

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The purpose of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of the literature on green manufacturing practices in the apparel industry to map green practices across various apparel manufacturing departments. The review includes academic journal articles that were retrieved between March 2013 and March 2023 from several different databases. As part of a comprehensive literature assessment, content analysis was applied to 138 publications that were published in peer-reviewed journals over ten years. Green practices in garment manufacturing process are covered, including product design, raw material procurement, fabric spreading, cutting, sewing and assembly, washing, printing and embroidery, finishing, and packing. The review of eco-friendly production practices at each phase of the production process shows the variety and complexity of green practices in apparel production companies. However, there is a lack of research on the conditions of developing countries, where the majority of apparel production takes place, as well as on the methods used in the manufacture of garments. The study is distinct in that it focuses solely on the garment manufacturing industry, and will not include textiles because the production processes for textiles and clothing are fundamentally different. This study assists managers in building a company’s sustainability competency by outlining best practices at various phases of production. It also provides scholars with a uniform representation of environmentally sustainable practices to spur additional scholarly investigation.

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A Systematic Review of Green Apparel Manufacturing

Jain,

Kalapurackal

2023

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“…Options include incorporating one's cremated ashes into a nutrient-rich soil for a memorial plant or embedding those ashes into a memorial that will help to regrow coral reefs (https:// livingreefmemorial.com/). Further, you can choose fashionable burial clothing (Michel & Lee, 2017), including a suit that grows mushrooms (Banerji, 2016) or place yourself in a pod that will grow into a tree (https://www.capsulamundi.it/en/). More simply, a body can be buried in an 'ecopod' (https://www.naturalburialcompany.com/ecopod/) or turned into compost (https:// www.recompose.life/) (Barnett, 2018).…”

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Up in smoke or down with worms? older adult environmentalist’s discourse on disposal, dispersal, and (green) burial

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Dennis

2021

Mortality

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Environmentalists target their own behaviour choices as part of their identity, including recycling, transportation, and clothing. Based on interviews with older adult environmentalists, we investigate whether their environmentalism extends beyond their lives. That is, do they want to be disposed of or dispersed upon their death? In terms of environmentalism, then, considering the materials involved, including one's body, how might we explain older adult environmentalists' thoughts on their own death care? Is there a gap between one's identity as an environmentalist and one's anticipated choices about death care? We examine the death care discourse of 20 older adult environmentalists to examine Rumble et al.'s 2014 debate between disposal and dispersal. We conclude that environmental activists maintain their identity as environmental activists through their death care deliberations, but that both the ecological science of burial choices and the knowledge about green burial options is evolving.

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“…Textiles commercially available for green burials include shrouds and wrappings of natural fibers (Michel & Lee, 2017). Michel and Lee (2017) identified three designers of natural burial garments.…”

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Garden Series. Green Burial Robe Halfscale Prototype

Haar

2017

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Garden Series. Burial Pantsuit Half-Scale Prototype Sherry Haar, Kansas State University Green burial, halfscale, natural dyeContext, Purpose and Background. My scholarship with natural dyes is merging with textile and apparel design for green burials. I was introduced to green burial garments while participating in the Halfscale Forum for Creative Patternmaking initiated through Cornell University. Thus, this design addressed the Halfscale Forum parameters while exploring garment and textile design for green burial. The Halfscale Forum theme, Inversion, called for viewing the body and patternmaking from atypical points of departure, seams and style lines. I elected to design from the back, supine position wrapping the fabric around the body and limbs with curved seams, shirring, and lacing securing the shape.'Green, or natural burial is a way of caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact that aids in the conservation of natural resources, reduction of carbon emissions, protection of worker health, and the restoration and/or preservation of habitat' (Green Burial Council). Textiles commercially available for green burials include shrouds and wrappings of natural fibers (Michel & Lee, 2017). Michel and Lee (2017) identified three designers of natural burial garments. Pia Interlandi's, Garments for the Grave, are pieces designed for ease of wrapping and encasing body parts. Jae Rhim Lee developed a body suit inserted with fungal culture to assist with the removal of bodily toxins through decomposition. Mark Mitchell created elaborate burial costumes using by-hand techniques on naturally fibered fabrics and yarns. My overarching aims are to explore functional apparel design for burial, biodegradability of fiber and natural dye, and textile design related to regional biodiversity. This design, explored patternmaking from the supine position and textile design using local flora.Process. Starting the design from the back in a supine position, fabric was wrapped around the body using gathers on slits and shirring to maintain a forward motion. The resulting shrug is a one-piece pattern with the sleeves incorporated into the bodice. The pantsuit only has a center back and partial crotch seam. This allows a body to be laid on the fabric and the fabric to wrap from back to front. Ties, interlacings, and casings are used to secure the garment after wrappings are in place. A hood was attached using a facing. A pocket for mementos was placed at the heart.The shrug fabric was colored from regional garden plants, roses, hollyhock, and beard tongue in premordanted silk organza. The bundle was wetted-out and placed in a dark plastic bag and left outdoors for three days to extract the plant color to the fiber. The pantsuit textile design was created by first bundling purple basil in silk dupioni to create a subtle background. The defined plant imagery is from pounding or hammering Plains coreopsis and sweet potato leaf onto the fabric.

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Cloth(ing) for the dead: case study of three designers’ green burial practices

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

A Systematic Review of Green Apparel Manufacturing

A Systematic Review of Green Apparel Manufacturing

Up in smoke or down with worms? older adult environmentalist’s discourse on disposal, dispersal, and (green) burial

Garden Series. Green Burial Robe Halfscale Prototype

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