What do you do when your old garments or clothes are not wearable? We normally throw them away, don’t we? Have you ever thought of reusing your old clothes to make a quilt out of them? In earlier times, people had enough money to buy new fabric from the stores but nowadays people are more environmentally friendly. Instead of
throwing out old torn clothes, people reuse them to make new clothes, quilts or other products. Recently Mary Emma Allen has reused the fabric from her daughter’s clothing to make a quilt out of it. Nowadays, people have rediscovered this art of making quilts and clothes from old garments.
Its not that Marry Emma Allen has made a quilt from old garments but Brooke an amateur sewer has reused her husband’s old dress shirts to make a quilt. In addition to this, one can make a quilt from old worn-out denim jeans. Just take a look below. You will be surprised to see the products made from recycled clothes.
• Recycled denim pencil: The recycled denim pencil does not contain any wood but is made from 20-33% recycled blue denim jeans and rest is the recycled post-consumer paper.
• Recycled denim ballpoint stick pens: The denim pens are made from recycled post consumer recycled denim jeans. The denim pens during its manufacturing process are made from other recyclable material.
• Chair from recycled polyester clothes: Tom Price has made a Meltdown Fleece chair from recycled polyester clothes. The garments are piled together and are placed on a hot steel seat. As the temperature of the seat rises, the polyester stars melting which is present in the dresses and transforms the worn out polyester garments laden chair into a designer piece.
• Leather bag: Designer Ashley Watson of Vancouver, British Columbia has designed a leather bag from her father’s old leather jacket.
I hope from today you will not throw your old clothes but utilize them in a better way.