Resources
Upcycling Resources
With a simple internet search for “upcycle clothing” or “up-cycle fabric” you can find a variety of books, websites, blogs, and YouTube videos with tutorials, tips, and inspiration for up cycling and repurposing clothing.
Some of our favorite websites are:
A website dedicated to helping reduce fashion waste with helpful tutorials on fixing and repurposing clothing.
A sewing website that contains basic sewing tips as well as ideas and how-tos for transforming old clothes.
Focuses on visible mending as “codesign” using verve and nerve and glaringly obvious thread, to value and preserve what you already have.
A YouTube channel that teaches and inspires anyone to mend their clothes.
Some of our favorite books:
You can click on the links to go to Amazon, but see if you can check them out at your local library, or buy them at your local independent bookstore.
Why hide a repair when you can celebrate it. This book is a is a step-by-step guide to visible repairs by Hikaru Noguchi, a guru of visible darning in Japan.
This illustrated guide to mending and upcycling gives step-by-step instructions and covers a range of projects – from darning a sock to making a rag rug.
This is a book of inspiring upcycled eye-candy. The book features 46 international designers who work with recycled materials and discarded garments to create fashion clothing and accessories.
Not only are there projects for visible mending, but the author explores how mending leads to a more mindful relationship with our clothing.
Another inspiring book by Katrina Rodabaugh that teaches how to build and maintain a wardrobe that matters.
This book has inspiration and projects for simple-structured garments using vintage table linens and worn garments.
