WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT AS OF 10.11-YOU CAN STILL COME AND SEE DEMONSTRATIONS!!!

Few forms of human behavior are more pervasive than the production and use of textiles. As shelter and clothing textile products play a vital role in meeting basic human needs. The Environmental Protection Agency estimated that 12.4 million tons of clothing was generated in 2013. An estimated 85% of these textile based materials wind-up in landfills, accounting for 5% of the total waste stream.

Negative environmental impacts related to textile and apparel products are significant throughout the lifecycle of a garment.

WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT AS OF 10.11-YOU CAN STILL COME AND SEE DEMONSTRATIONS!!!

This workshop is aimed at educating our community of consumers on ways to get greater use from their wardrobe, for example, through re-design involving weave, knit and dye techniques, also, by alteration and repair.

The goal of the portable platform is to, through collaborative and dynamic means (education, skill-share, demonstration, dialogue, reflection) encourage empowerment and agency to wearers and consumers of clothing, thereby changing destructive patterns of waste generation.

Demonstrations via tuk tuk in weaving, sewing, hand crochet and rope making! All participants will be able to make samples. All participants will also create a one of a kind hand dyed scarf through hapazome method.

Bring a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and a woven button up shirt (to be upcycled into new textiles!)