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Kantha: Reinventing Old Saris
Kantha is the practice of reinventing worn cotton fabric into household textiles in India and Bangladesh.
Textile Waste Comes in Many Forms
What defines pre-consumer textile waste?
Infographic: Environmental Impacts of the Textile Industry
The fashion and textile industry is an intricate business. Do you know how it works?
Courtesy of Sri Threads
Boro and Other Japanese Recycled Wonders
Textile expert Stephen Szczepanek, owner of the textile gallery Sri, shares his knowledge about the remarkable recycling practices that were deeply embedded in Japanese folk culture.
Design Solutions for Curbing Textile Waste
Panel discussion presenting three Scraps designers’ approaches to the shockingly high human and environmental costs of textile and apparel production.
A poetic transformation of industrial waste
From the archives, a past collaboration of design firm Nendo and designer Issey Miyake.
I Can Weave with Anything
Designer Suzanne Tick turns trash into textile treasures.
No-waste Cotton Cape
Japanese resourcefulness embodied in a nineteenth-century cloak.
Reclaiming Paper and Textiles
A wall paper made of recycled newspaper and nylon.