At Basto, we transform industrial excess into one of a kind, hand crafted clothing. Every design is crafted as one off/limited edition. It is luxury with intention: individual, artisan made, planet-conscious. We believe true luxury is knowing your piece is uniquely yours and kinder to the world we share.
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...
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
Jaunice is the creator, fiber artist, and designer behind ThreadsReclaimed, Specializing in wearable art, transforming rescued denim and secondhand garments by fusing them with storied textiles—including heirloom lace, damaged 2nd hand and Vintage quilts, embroidered linens, thrifted garments and deadstock remnants. Her one-of-a-kind patchwork creations breathe new life into forgotten materials.
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
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.