Upcycling Archive • Talk Slow

Make Thrift Mend

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:49:43 +0000

Slow fashion expert Katrina Rodabaugh, bestselling author of Mending Matters, teaches readers how to mend, patch, dye, and alter clothing for an environmentally conscious, reimagined wardrobe

Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh follows her bestselling book,
Mending Matters, with a comprehensive guide to building (and keeping) a wardrobe that matters. Whether you want to repair your go-to jeans, refresh a favorite garment, thrift-shop like a pro, alter or dye clothing you already have—this book has all the know-how you’ll need. Woven throughout are stories, essays, and a slow fashion call-to-action, encouraging readers to get involved or deepen their commitment to changing the destructive habit of overconsumption. Rodabaugh has an engaged fan group (her kits are in high demand and her classes sell out quickly) and a proven ability to tempt sewists and nonsewists alike to take up needle and thread.

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Mending Matters

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:47:05 +0000

Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving. In addition, the book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany each how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally flawed selves, and she examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.

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Mending Life

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:42:50 +0000

Mending Life

A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts g, and Patching to Practice Sustainable Fashion and Repair the Clothes You Love)

by Nina Montenegro and Sonya Montenegro

Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the clothes and belongings you love!

Mending Life, a beautiful modern sewing and mending guide with vibrant, full-color illustrations woven throughout, encourages us to break free from the fast fashion industry by repairing our clothes rather than discarding them. Along with DIY and how-to illustrations and tutorials, you’ll find heartfelt stories by authors Nina and Sonya Montenegro (creators of the popular @TheFarWoods) that encourage you to change your consumption habits, celebrate a sustainable, intentional lifestyle, demonstrate mending as a powerful act that not only strengthens the object we are repairing, but ourselves as well.

Beginners and Seasoned Sewers will find:

Basic Mending Skills – how to thread a needle, how to tie knots, and basic stitches
Sashiko – a striking Japanese hand-sewing technique for reinforcement and decoration
Darning – plain weave, swiss weave, crocheted patch, knitted patch, and needle-felted patch
Patching – the best three ways to patch holes how-to guide
Mending Tutorials by Item – down jackets, shirt cuffs, and linen
Other Common Repairs – snags, buttons, belt loops, leggings, pant pockets, and more
Sewing Beyond Mending – hemming pants, taking garments in, and adding pockets

Extend the life of your favorite clothes and beloved household items with mending with this timeless and practical guide to cherishing and caring for our belongings.

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Make Fashion Better – Mit Stil die Welt verbessern

Lotte — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 14:52:45 +0000

Deine Mode, deine Zukunft! Ein Kinder- und Jugendsachbuch über Mode und Nachhaltigkeit ab 10 Jahre

Dein Lieblings-T-Shirt passt nicht mehr? Vielleicht freut sich ja eine Freundin darüber! Die Jeans hat ein Loch? Kein Problem, das kann man flicken – und das Ergebnis sieht auch noch richtig cool aus!
Wirf mit diesem Buch einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der Modeindustrie. Weißt du zum Beispiel, wie viel Wasser bei der Produktion eines einzigen weißen T-Shirts verbraucht wird und welche Auswirkungen das auf unsere Umwelt hat? Werde mit vielen kreativen Tipps und Tricks zum Profi in Sachen nachhaltiger Mode – damit du weiterhin Spaß an toller Kleidung haben und gleichzeitig die (Mode-)Welt zum Positiven verändern kannst.

Ein Sachbuch zum Thema nachhaltige Mode in tollem, modernen Design mit vielen kreativen Tipps und wichtigen Informationen für Kinder ab 10 Jahren. Hier werden Themen wie Fast Fashion, bewusstes Einkaufsverhalten oder ein nachhaltiger Umgang mit Kleidung angesprochen. Mit vielen farbigen Illustrationen, kreativen DIY-Anleitungen und Interviews mit ExpertInnen – informativ, unterhaltsam und zeitgemäß. Der Mode-Leitfaden für Kinder der Fridays for Future-Generation.

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ReFashioned: Cutting-Edge Clothing from Upcycled Material

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:33:37 +0000

Für die Mode werden Upcycling und Recyling zum Ausdruck der Slow-Fashion-Bewegung.
Bei ReFashioned arbeiten 46 internationale Designer mit recycelten Materialien und ausrangierten Kleidungsstücken, um ihnen ein neues Leben zu geben. Das Ergebnis sind wertige Kleidung und Accessoires, die auch in der Modewelt ein Statement zu den oft verschwenderischen und ausbeuterischen Praktiken abgeben.

Sass Brown is the Assistant Dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and the former Resident Director of its study abroad program in Florence, Italy. As a designer, researcher, writer, journalist and blogger, her area of expertise is eco fashion in all of its various expressions. She is the New York editor for Coco Eco Magazine and writes for a range of other magazines and websites. Her first book, Eco Fashion, was published by Laurence King in 2010.

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Zero Waste Fashion Design

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:30:34 +0000

Written by two of the leading protagonists in the field … [This] is a well-illustrated, comprehensive and practical volume.

Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach.

Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs.

Sample flat patterns and more than 20 exercises will reinforce your understanding of the zero waste fashion design process. Beautifully illustrated interviews with high-profile, innovative designers, including Winifred Aldrich, Rickard Lindqvist and Yeohlee Teng, show the stunning garments produced by zero waste fashion design.

Featured topics include:
The criteria for zero waste fashion design
Manufacturing zero waste garments
Adapting existing designs for zero waste
Zero waste designing with digital technologies

Timo Rissanen is the Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York. Research on sustainability in fashion is inseparable from his design practice. Timo’s PhD focused on zero waste fashion design.
Holly McQuillan is Senior Lecturer in Design at the College of Creative Arts at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research centres in the field of zero waste fashion design practice-led research. Her research articulates zero waste fashion design through exhibition and writing, and focuses on broad issues of sustainability and their links with risky design practice.

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Mach neu aus alt – Kleidung und Accessoires

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:26:34 +0000

Gähnende Langeweile im Kleiderschrank? Die Geschäfte haben schon zu und kein passendes Accessoire für die Party? Kein Problem für den, der dieses Buch zu Hause hat. Der neue Titel aus der Erfolgsserie Mach Neu aus Alt zeigt, wie man Dinge, die vielleicht schon auf dem Weg in den Mülleimer waren,in stylische Mode und originelle Accessoires verwandelt. So wird aus einem aussortierten Männerhemd mit nur wenigen Handgriffen ein Kleid, ein Rock oder gar ein Top und aus der alten Yogamatte ein Paar hippe Flip-Flops. Auch renommierte Modeschöpfer wie Christian Louboutin haben das Thema Recycle-Design für sich entdeckt.Ihre Kreationen werden zusammen mit tollen Do-it-yourself-Ideen vorgestellt.

Henrietta Thompson schreibt als Mode- und Designjournalistin für verschiedene renommierte Magazine. Mit dem hochgelobten ersten Band der Reihe Mach Neu aus Alt zeigte sie bereits, dass Design und Stil auch ohne verschwenderische Mittel möglich sind.

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How To Break Up With Fast Fashion – A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:05:47 +0000

Global clothing production has roughly doubled in just 15 years, and every year an estimated 300,000 tonnes of used clothing ends up in UK landfill. Fast fashion is the ultimate toxic relationship. It’s bad news for the planet, our brains and our bank balances. We can’t go on like this; our shopping habits need an overhaul.

How to Break Up with Fast Fashion will help you to change your mindset, fall back in love with your wardrobe and embrace more sustainable ways of shopping – from the clothes swap to the charity shop. Full of refreshing honesty and realistic advice, Lauren will inspire you to repair, recycle and give your unloved items a new leaseof life without sacrificing your style.

Because fashion belongs to everyone, but no outfit should cost us the earth.

‚A funny, achievable guide‘ Observer

‚Offers honest and realistic advice . . . Bravo will inspire you to repair, recycle and give old items a new lease of life, all without sacrificing your style, and the planet‘ Stylist

Lauren Bravo is a freelance journalist who writes about fashion, popular culture, food, travel and feminism.

She wasThe Pool’s ‚Wardrobe Stories‘ columnist. Her first book, What Would The Spice Girls Do? was published by Transworld in 2018. In 2019, Lauren went on a year-long fast fashion ban. She volunteers in a charity shop once a week (to get first dibs on all the best clothes). Lauren has written about fashion since 2009, and about changing the way that we shop since 2016. She is on Twitter and Instagram as @laurenbravo.

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Sustainable Fashion: Responsible Consumption, Design, Fabrics, and Materials

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:01:25 +0000

This practical book is a valuable resource for promoting sustainable fashion. It shows to general audience, as well as professionals in the fashion business (designers, store owners, among others), the available alternatives in the fashion world in terms of sustainability. It includes case studies.

Wearme Fashion, founded by Vera Artemyeva, is an advocate for conscious manufacturers, creators, designers, brands, and consumers, who are creating fashion with a sustainable approach. Its mission is to create a supportive, global, sustainable community built on authenticity, creativity and the ambition to develop a sustainable market from niche to a norm. They create the right connections to unite this growing sustainable industry.

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Sustainable Fashion – Past, Present and Future

Lotte — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 23:57:14 +0000

Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today’s eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context and explore the historical relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century. Employing an expanded definition of sustainability that also considers ethical issues, Farley and Hill explore each stage of the fashion production cycle, from the cultivation of raw fibers to the shipment of the finished garment. Structured thematically, each of the six chapters is dedicated to the discussion of one major issue, from recycling and repurposing to labour practices and the treatment of animals. Including interviews with eco-fashion designers, Sustainable Fashion will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, as well as students of design, history and cultural studies.

Jennifer Farley Gordon is a PhD student in the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design program at Iowa State University, and serves as a graduate research assistant in the Textiles and Clothing Museum. From 2008 until 2013, she was an assistant curator at The Museum at FIT, New York City, USA.
Colleen Hill is Associate Curator of Accessories at The Museum at FIT, New York City, USA.

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