How to dye fabric: simple techniques and step-by-step guide
Recycling old jeans: creative and sustainable ideas for giving them a new life
It’s no joke: jeans are definitely the most versatile garment that exists. Suitable for every occasion, they can be worn with any other garment and every other style: from the most fashionable, to the most casual and informal.
Jeans accompany us throughout our whole lives, timeless and faithful companions on our adventures. The truth is that all of us have a little bit of “we are our jeans” mentality in us, and this is why we wish that they’d never wear out, never go out of style.… Unfortunately, however time passes for them, too, so the idea of recycling our beloved old jeans can be a winner. Especially if it means that we won’t have to part with them permanently.
So instead of throwing them away, this means that we could try to give them a new life, by using our creativity to transform them into a whole new garment. This, besides being a choice that reduces textile waste, is also environmentally friendly and saves us money.
Textile Ennobling: creativity that adds more value to fabrics
How to shrink a garment in the washing machine
Sometimes it happens that we buy a garment, a sweater, for example, or a sweatshirt, but realize, once we get it home, that it’s way too big, we just swim in it. However, we just love everything else about it – fabric, color, design. At that point we may be tempted to shrink it: but how can we do that without ruining the garment? Without matting it or miniaturizing it? Actually, all things considered, this is an operation that’s within everyone’s reach. If you want to try it yourself, read this post where we explain how to shrink a garment in the washing machine safely and easily.
Washing label: deciphering it and learning how to best treat your garments
For some, the world of “do-it-yourselfers” is a crazy place that always seems to be inventing ways to complicate their lives and never settling for anything “ready-made.” This may be true, but in some cases these people do manage to find personal ways to make really, really beautiful “things” like, for example, homemade natural dyes. If you want to try your hand and succeed in dyeing fabrics with natural ingredients, follow this short guide.