join me in showing this old forgotten wool-blend machine knitted sweater some TLC by upcycling it into a new sweater! This isn’t a tutorial as much as a walk-through of a particular project: I show the process of undoing the seams, unravelling the yarn, and knitting the different parts. If you want to knit something less costly than buying yarn from new, and you enjoy experimental and unpredictable creative processes, this might be for you! And as always with slow fashion, it’s a great way to renew your wardrobe, and reduce your textile waste - an otherwise large climate struggle. Here are some resources about textile waste:
www.sciencedirect.com/science... - “[…] average global annual consumption of textiles has doubled from 7 to 13 kg per person and reached to the threshold of 100 million tonnes of textiles consumption. More than two thirds of the textile goes to landfill at the end of their use and just around 15% is recycled.”
www.supplychaindive.com/news/... - “The utilization of clothing - the average number of times a piece of clothing is worn before being discarded - has decreased 36% in the last 15 years”
www.intechopen.com/books/wast... - “In 2015, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from textile production were responsible for 1.2 billion tons of CO2 equivalent of greenhouse gas (GHG). This figure exceeds the emissions that result from all international flights and maritime shipping combined […]”
“Of this recycled 13%, a minuscule part is used to produce new clothing-less than 1%. The rest is recycled into other, lower-value items such as insulation material, wiping cloths or mattress stuffing”
These are from a quick search, there are books, documentaries, and articles etc. about this to seek out if you want to know more! Or let me know if I should comprise some numbers on this - I probably will, anyway.
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