{"id":67222,"date":"2024-09-23T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T20:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=67222"},"modified":"2024-09-23T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T21:24:28","slug":"loom3d-wilson-college-of-textiles-ph-d-student-founds-sustainable-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2024\/09\/loom3d-wilson-college-of-textiles-ph-d-student-founds-sustainable-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"LOOM3D: Wilson College of Textiles Ph.D. Student Founds Sustainable Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
When Jeanine Fry first began her college career studying theatre design, she didn\u2019t know she would one day be a business owner and award-winning researcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Originally drawn to costume design, Fry was fascinated by the power of apparel to bring characters to life and express personality. Following graduation, she began working in ready-to-wear tailoring, where the constant product flow exposed her to the volume of overproduction in the industry. Fry knew she wanted a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSeeing the excess production of product led me to the custom apparel industry. Prior to starting graduate school, I ran the tailor shop for a custom suit company,\u201d she says. \u201cWhat was ideal about that is we were only making products that people were asking us to make. That alleviated my guilt in participating in an industry that is so excessive, but there were a couple of things that I still wanted to see change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fry\u2019s experience with suiting, which is primarily made up of woven fabrics, got her thinking about the possibilities for made-to-order 3D woven garment production. This zero-waste process uses custom measurements to create a seamless product that is more comfortable and durable for the wearer. Once Fry began looking into graduate school programs, she decided she wanted to focus on research and sustainability. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI knew that I wanted to develop a technology that could actually be turned into an industrial process and research sustainable production processes,\u201d Fry explains. \u201cWhen I decided that my focus needed to involve research, that was where the Wilson College of Textiles came in. I now consider myself a researcher and a designer on the same level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n