Upcycled Fashion 101
An intro to upcycling clothes. This is based on some of the most searched for questions around the topic in the hopes it helps folks looking for answers.
What are upcycled clothes?
The definition of “upcycled clothes” is highly subjective, but it ultimately means remaking or revamping textiles into something wearable. It’s used for everything from folks remaking old prom dresses into something…
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some visible mending I did on an old flannel recently! this was fun but took me so long to convince myself to do, Im very happy with how its come out though. The lichens are oak moss, bloodstain lichen, a third thats very common in texas but i forgot the name of, and then some lovely little algae (i love algae in theory but hate it in eutrophication ;v;)
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Idea: sew some cute little moths with scrap fabrics and sew them on holes you have on your clothes so you can keep wearing them :)
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more medieval manuscript repairs
all from a miscellany containg thomas de chabham's "summa poenitentialis", southern germany (?), first half of the 13th c.
source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., B X 1, fol. 56r, 67r, and 71r
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Mending a rather obvious rip in the butt of my dad's jeans, so I'm embroidering a dad joke on the pocket to make ironic
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Did some fancy repairing, my pal said this would probably "do numbers on tumblr"...so ta da!
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Visible mending by Katrina Sánchez
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