#upcycled textiles

[saltedsnailstudio]

some recent happenings from the studio

linocut prints on various textiles + some stitchin’

[supramorphous]

Wear your values and evolve

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[indiaartndesign]

Sustainable fabric - the future of fashion!  Quietly working their way up over the last six-seven years, sustainable fabrics are getting increasingly mainstream with several Indian fashion labels going green in novel avatars. Check out a few that we’ve profiled here… bit.ly/SustainableFabrics-IAnD 

[magdadurka]

'Children of Noctua' -

Costumes I designed for Distrikt 5, Noctua characters at Boomtown festival 2018. Distrikt 5 is produced by Third Mind Productions.

Isabella Barter and I constructed the costumes together. We both performed the characters of balcony dancers at the festival.

The costumes were constructed from upcycled bedsheets making them environmentally friendly. This fitted very well with the theme of the 'Last Tree' and dystopian future caused by human made, environmental destruction, where all is forgotten. Only the Children of Noctua, priests and priestesses of Noctua and preachers, a cultish group, worshipping the last tree, remained on earth. Shapes and poses are the symbology and signs of Noctua.

Copper wire is spot welded and bend and manipulated to create the jewellery. Bedsheets are torn into long strips, twisted, tied and hand woven to create the main body of the dresses. The long strips are left raw to form the skirt/tunic parts of dresses. Making of the dresses by hand took us both approx.. 1, full week.

Costume design: Magda Durka

Costume construction: Magda Durka & Isabella Barter

Children of Noctua characters: Magda Durka & Isabella Barter

Photography: Robin Gething; Editing: Isabella Barter.

[aworldofpattern]

Textiles from IKEA's new Överallt furniture collection, a collaboration with top African designers, via creative network Design Indaba.

1. Woven footstool by Bibi Seck of Birsel & Seck.

2. Reform Studio's tote bag, made from fabric produced by recycling crisp packets.

3. Textiles by South African designers Renee Rossouw and Sindiso Khumalo.

4. Rugs by Laduma Ngxokolo of fashion brand Maxhosa.

The collection arrives in stores in May 2019.

[saltedsnailstudio]

a small smattering of recent prints & stitches from the studio

[supramorphous]

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Sahara on rPET/recycled polyester with digital print jacket for Mirage Mutation capsule collaborative collection

[supramorphous]

Wear your values grow & evolve .-

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Sahara for Mirage Mutation collab capsule collection made of recycled poly rPET and digital print