I upcycle retired outdoor fabrics into useful products and textile art. I also teach sewing workshops and provide a specialist outdoor gear repair service
Katherine Soucie, PhD, is a British-Canadian artist, designer whose work centres on creative reuse, remanufacturing, and mending. With over 25+ years of experience upcycling, her award winning studio/brand, Sans Soucie, works across textiles, fashion, and visual art, developing multidisciplinary approaches that transform textile industry waste into new materials and applications.
I transform what the world discards into vibrant, modern landscapes. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, my work explores the intersection of nature, geography, and sustainability. Using hand-tufted, reclaimed T-shirt fibers, I build bold topographical compositions that map the delicate interplay of shadows, textures and push the possibilities that the materials hold. My process begins by individually sel
Lately, my biggest cycle passion is thrift material from the thrift stores on the island, turning jeans and things of that nature into useful items like wallets and purses, and sling backpacks
POST—MATTER is a multidisciplinary design studio by Adele Zavagno. She is a designer based between Italy and the Netherlands who works with local and discarded materials merging the worlds of textiles and biodesign.
Left-over fabrics, papers, found objects! I consider myself as a bricoleur! I do collages both with paper and fabric, and I do improvise! Aaaaaand I cannot live otherwise! :)
Since 2007, Berlin-based designer Katja Werner has been working on the upcycling of seemingly disused materials, which she turns into new uses in useful and often surprising contexts.
i am an artist based in vienna, predominantly working in the fields of textiles, photography, and illustration. i love experimenting with different materials and trying out new things - whilst my ideals of feminism, anti-capitalism and environmentalism are always leading principles in my artwork. i'd love to hear from you via e-mail or instagram dm!
Accessories and clothes made from second-hand treasures, deadstock materials and old clothes.
Guiding people to sew, mend their clothes and to avoid filling landfills with their old textiles.
