I'm Ute, founder of jotdot - jeans upcycling pattern. I studied fashion design and am a trained pattern maker with a passion for sustainable sewing. Give your old jeans a new life! Discover sewing patterns that turn denim seams, pockets, and hems into unique design features. Every pattern design is based on my many years of experience in fashion industrie, pattern making, and product development.
bolsos berlin is a small Upcycling-brand in Berlin. As a solo entrepreneur I create accessories with advertising banners, used sails, event-materials and other "industrial" waste like offset-printing mats. In our (I share the space with an other upcycling-artist) Work-Shop in Berlin-Kreuzberg I create, develop, manufacture and sell one-of-a-kind bags, backpacks, wallets, hip bags, bike-panners...
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.
