Waste-Lace explores the creation of contemporary lace textiles using fabric waste and their application to garment. The process begins by affixing screen-printed, naturally dyed fabric remnants to a base cloth with stitched thread. Following the development of a unanimous textile, small fragments are cut away from the cloth and stitched into large panels of interweaving threads. The panels are developed on a dissolvable fabric substate, which are later connected with seams and then dissolved, to become lace-like zero-waste tube dress. Through printing, dyeing, cutting, stitching, pattern-making, pressing and dissolving, the creative potential of fabric waste and a new material language of lace is developed. 

Molly Ryan, Waste-Lace, machine-embroidered textile made from naturally dyed and screen-printed post-consumer waste, cotton thread. 2025, Digital image. Photography: Sunny. 

Molly Ryan, Waste-Lace, machine-embroidered textile made from naturally dyed and screen-printed post-consumer waste, cotton thread. 2025, Digital image. Photography: Molly Ryan.