Issey Miyake called his 1998 garment-making system using a single piece of cloth A-POC.
A-POC means “A Piece of Cloth.” Miyake and his collaborators developed the concept as a method in which computer-controlled knitting or weaving could produce a continuous tube or panel containing garment shapes. Wearers could then cut along indicated lines to create clothing with minimal waste.
The system expressed Miyake’s long-standing interest in combining technology, textiles, and user participation. Instead of treating a garment as many separately cut pieces assembled by conventional sewing, A-POC approached clothing as an integrated textile structure.
A-POC is sometimes confused with Pleats Please, Miyake’s earlier pleated clothing line launched in 1993, or Bao Bao, a later accessories line. Those are related parts of his design world, but A-POC specifically names the one-piece-cloth production concept.