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Suay collects donations of old clothing and other fabric items from the local community. Repairable items are fixed and given away for free, while other pieces are upcycled into new items to be sold [1] at an onsite retail store. Products include pants and shorts, beanies, and sweatshirts among other items. [3]
Due to her father's passing, as well as cultural limitations for women at the time, Ceesay was unable to complete a proper traditional education and was forced to drop out of school- for it was unaffordable at the time- and instead was forced to do work making and selling toys by using small scraps of clothing and wood, which made her popular ...
MILAN — After two years into the pandemic, cliché statements about the emergency representing an opportunity to retool one’s business values and find renewed energy seem to be actually true.
Venice Biennale installation by Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (2022) - artistic upcycling of old textile materials. While recycling usually means the materials are remade into their original form, e.g., recycling plastic bottles into plastic polymers, which then produce plastic bottles through the manufacturing process, upcycling adds more value to the materials, as the name suggested.
The 217-year-old sweater and note found in an unopened package. Photo from The National Archives ... The packages were opened as part of an ongoing project to digitize the contents of the National ...
Textile recycling is the process of recovering fiber, yarn, or fabric and reprocessing the material into new, useful products. [1] Textile waste is split into pre-consumer and post-consumer waste and is sorted into five different categories derived from a pyramid model.
With a team made up of Black women, this ten-year-old company offers pumps, mules and booties, to name a few options. Plus, it partners solely with family-owned vendors that use ethically-sourced ...
Since 2008, Clements Ribeiro has undertaken a series of projects focused around upcycling alongside its main collection. Projects have included dresses, skirts and shirts made of vintage scarves; 'collage' dresses that combine found fabrics and a collaboration with textile artist Karen Nicol to transform vintage cashmere knitwear with ...