ZERO WASTE PATTERN DRAFTING
WITH THE DECODE PATTERN MASTER SYSTEM
For years people have been asking where the book is.
Workshop after workshop in New York, London, Lagos, and Tokyo, I'd watch someone have an ah-ha moment with the pattern master and ask why it doesn't exist as a book.
Now it does!
Zero Waste Pattern Drafting is the book I've been building toward for over a decade. It contains the methodology I've spent years developing behind closed doors, refining with industry partners, testing in studios, teaching in rooms full of designers who couldn't believe how simple it actually is.
The book is practical, visual, and built to draft from zero. Within it are ten complete garment systems to draft your own zero waste garments from scratch, and a method that makes zero waste feel like the obvious way to do things… because it is!
It's finally here and I can't wait to put it in your hands.
The book is now fully funded through Kickstarter, having raised 145% of ask.
The book will be completed and ready to distribute March of 2027.
Draft from zero.
the book
the book
The first edition of
Zero Waste Pattern Drafting
with the DECODE Pattern Master System.
250 pages of History, methodology, step-by-step drafting, sewing instructions, and digital pattern files
the tools
the tools
The physical version of the
DECODE Zero Waste Pattern Master Tools
Nine physical drafting tools that correspond to the ten garment blocks featured in the book
as seen on
kickstarter
Fully funded on Kickstarter with $52,141 raised, 145% of goal with 327 backers in 30 countries!!
Zero Waste Pattern Drafting: With the DECODE Pattern Master System was named a Kickstarter Project We Love and selected for the Kickstarter Culture Fund.
Shipping to backers beginning March 2027.
Danielle Elsener is a Zero Waste System Designer, educator, industry consultant, and creative strategist specializing in research and development surrounding the future of sustainability in the fashion industry. For over a decade, Danielle has worked with industry, educational institutions, and entrepreneurial ventures as a consultant and educator to shift the reality of sustainability in fashion.
Elsener is currently consulting with global fashion brands, co-running Zero Waste Design Collective, and teaching at Fashion Institute of Technology on the MFA programs Pattern Recognition course, educating the next generation of designers on innovative patterning methodology and 3D design.
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