What is the progress of developing FLOSS tools, software and hardware for a fair and environment friendly garment and textile production? The presentation introduces the work and projects of our fashiontec community that help us to break down the locks that exists on every level in the industry from design, to software, machines and distribution.

1. Towards Open
Textile and Garment Production
Hong Phuc Dang, LGM’15
fashiontec.org

2. About me
Hong Phuc, FOSSASIA, Textiles
@hpdang
@fashiontecorg
@fossasia
I am from Viet Nam

3. Let’s make a digital Revolution
for the Textile and Garment Industry?

4. The fashion industry has been
slow to adapt to new technologies
● Hardware
● Software
● Production and distribution
● Material
What have we learned?
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The Singer Machine, earliest model 1851

5. TEXTILE and GARMENTS
just aren’t digital
Machinery stuck in the 80s:
manual labour is cheaper
than tech upgrades. Embroidery Dharavi, Mumbai, Ekabhishek CC Share Alike

6. Good digital tools don't exist yet
Tools are expensive not interoperable, proprietary formats
Designers choose manufacturers based on tools (CAD software)

7. Where our clothes are produced?

9. Globalisation race to the bottom in consumer prices and prevailing of the
worst working conditions - Here Nike Sweatshops in China and Vietnam

10. TEXTILE and GARMENTS just
aren’t localanymore
Marginal garment
production in Europe
and the US
Traditional Knowledge
(tk) gone.

11. Clothes don’t fit!
No standard sizes even within the EU but plain CHAOS.
Women have issues to find the right clothes for their bust size.
Men’s shirts never seem to fit the arm length.

12. ● No room in the current large industry
model for made-to-measure clothing in
tools and design.
● No way for customers to interact directly
with individual designers.
● No just-in-time production
● Must order large batch size

13. The Fashion Distribution System
● Need huge distribution
channels to handle huge
production runs
● Small & medium designers get
no access to normal garment
industry channels
● No space for smaller designers
in corporate stores

14. TEXTILE and GARMENTS just aren’t
environmentally friendly.

15. What do we want to do?

16. To Solve the Challenges of the Industry by adapting
new technologies:
● Free Open Source Tools (Software + Hardware)
● Open Data Formats
● Open Garment Marketplaces
● Environmentally Friendly Fabrics

17. To build a community around fashion and technology
● Connect all the existing projects around the world
● Create central network
● Bring developers, designers, clothes makers together
● Look into eco-fashion (academic research)

18. What is happening
in our fashiontec community?

19. Open Source Patternmaking
Tau Meta Tau
Processing
Project Valentina

20. Open Source Patternmaking
Prototypes by Susan
Spencer

21. Patternmaking Project Valentina
A Qt5 free software app
available for Linux, Windows, Mac
Dev: Roman Telezhinsky
bitbucket.org/dismine/valentina

22. 3D Body
Measurements
Prototype Showcase:
freelayers.org
Free Software - Code:
github.com/fashiontec/

23. Body-Apps International Contributors
Prashant Kiran (India) Ayantha Randika (Sri
Lanka)
Vishv Brahmbhatt
(India)
Mario Behling
(Germany)
Joerg Henning (Germany)

24. Open Formats - HDF
● Human Definition Format
● Container format, similar to ODF
● Structured data (XML) + binary
(images)
● MIME: “application/vnd.org.
valentina.hdf”
● github.com/fashiontec/hdf

25. Open Source Knitting
Open Knit: Gerard Rubio
Video: vimeo.com/90035643
Hardware: github.
com/g3rard/OpenKnit
Knitic Software: Mar Canet
github.com/mcanet/knitic

26. Open Source Knitting Video: vimeo.com/90035643

27. AYAB Knitting
Live Demo: Christian and Andz (Munich) | ayab-knitting.com

28. Circular Knitic by Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet

29. Embroidermodder
Create your own embroidery
designs in the CAD program.
Then generate embroidery
files for home or
commercial machines.
github.com/Embroidermodder/
Josh Varga Jonathan Greig

30. Open Source Embroidery
[1] www.openbuilds.com/builds/embroidery-machine-with-xy-
belt-and-pinion-drive.691/
[2] hackaday.com/2014/06/10/diy-embroidery-machine-sews-
your-name-in-your-undies/
[3] youtu.be/u6JFxtSsWpw

31. Gisela Schulz, Knitting Enthusiast for 40 years

32. What are the next steps: We need
more machines to hack and liberate
fashiontec maker spaces
software developers & designers
more cool projects
companies that support us
makers to start their own businesses
and Open Fashion Stores

33. Join our movement towards Open Textile and Garment
Production - How can you help?
● Hacking machines - sewing, stitching,
crocheting, embroidery machines
● 3D printing experts to build our own
machines
● Join our OpenXLab network of makers
● Your idea <here>
Addi Knitting Machine

34. Where to meet #FashionTec in 2015/16
OpenTechSummit, Berlin, May 14 (Open Hardware Track)
MeshCon FashionTec Week, Berlin, Oct. 6-12
FOSDEM, Brussels, Jan/Feb 2016 (Room Internet of Things)
FOSSASIA, 16-18 March 2016 (Open Hardware Track)
Libre Graphics Meeting, London, 2016

35. Thank you
Hong Phuc Dang
Twitter
@fashiontecorg
@hpdang
fashiontec.org