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  • Grandmother's battalion: how elderly Zhytomyr residents help the front

    April 26, 2023 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Zhytomyr

    The Grandmother's Battalion is an initiative organized by the organization Care for the Elderly in Ukraine. Retired volunteers sew and distribute items such as pillows, work gloves, underwear, socks, and other needed clothing to Ukrainian soldiers fighting on the front lines.

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  • New Fire Mountain Fabrics store offers Indigenous fabric and motifs

    March 01, 2023 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

    Fire Mountain Fabrics and Supply is a Native-owned fabric shop in Minnesota that sells materials used to make the regalia worn in different ceremonies that can often be difficult to find.

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  • Embracing their place on ‘the fringes,' queer artists reimagine Jewish ritual garments for all bodies

    January 03, 2023 |

    The Forward |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Tzitzit Project makes Jewish ritual garments typically produced for and worn by Orthodox men in shapes and colors for a variety of bodies and genders to appeal to a more diverse set of people.

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  • From socks and sit pads to rebuilding Ukraine: how knitters help soldiers survive cold

    October 25, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    Knitted Things For Soldiers is a volunteer group run through Facebook that sends knit, woven, and sewn items to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Those who want to participate but need to learn how to knit can learn from experienced knitters' posts online.

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  • A Brooklyn nonprofit comes to Philly to recycle clothing waste across the Mid-Atlantic

    November 15, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Textile and fashion companies can now recycle their excess fabric with Fabscrap. The group opened its second location and has worked with hundreds of brands, saving about 1 million pounds of textiles from ending up in landfills.

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  • Nonprofit Esperanza Threads helping refugees and immigrants stitch together their American dream

    August 05, 2021 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Esperanza Threads provides sewing training to refugees and immigrants so that they can find sustainable jobs and provide for their families. The students learn to make t-shirts, bags, and baby products, which are sold on the organization’s website. To emulate an actual job experience, the two-month long program pays the trainees a stipend for their time and their work. The group partners with resettlement agencies, shelters, rehabilitation facilities, and churches to reach new clients. The training has also had the effect of increasing hope and building self-esteem among the participants.

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  • The plus-size knitters who are solving an inclusivity problem

    March 10, 2021 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: United States

    Knitters are using social media, crowdsourcing, and spreadsheets to make the knitwear industry more inclusive of different body types. Designer Sarah Krentz offers patterns using an interactive spreadsheet where knitters fill in key measurements like bust, waist, and bicep circumference and the pattern automatically populates with the correct number of stitches and rows based on a pre-set formula created by Krentz. Fat Test Knits connects designers to plus size knitters who will test the patters. The site also serves as a bulletin board where moderators have vetted and shared over 500 patterns since 2019.

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  • How Banana Waste Is Turned Into Rugs, Fabric, And Hair Extensions

    February 19, 2021 |

    Business Insider |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    A Ugandan company called TEXFAD is taking the stems from banana trees that would normally go to waste and is turning them into new textiles like rugs, place mats, and hair extensions. Over its eight year existence, TEXFAD has grown to also employ 23 people, many of whom started in their internship program for students. While the cost to make these products can be expensive, the textiles are biodegradable and use less water and land to produce.

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  • Iranian women's group empowers amid pandemic by making masks

    December 29, 2020 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: Iran, Tehran

    An organization in Tehran, Iran is helping women "looking for work to make handicrafts" by allowing them to use donated sewing machines as a means of becoming self-sufficient despite high rates of unemployment. When the coronavirus pandemic impacted the market, however, they shifted to making masks. Specific sales figures for the masks aren't available, but participants say they are grateful to be able to learn a new skill for free.

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  • How A 24-Year-Old CEO Makes Sustainable Tees from Milk

    December 15, 2020 |

    Planet Forward |

    Broadcast TV Talk Show |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    After witnessing milk going to waste on his uncle dairy’s farm in China, Robert Lou came up with the idea to turn the leftover milk into clothing. It takes five glasses of milk to produce one t-shirt and he’s sold over 3,000 of them since launching his company Mi Terro. He hopes to use 15 percent of the world’s food waste in 20 years to lower greenhouse gas emissions and supply income to farmers. He’s also piloting a new flexible packaging material out of grain products.

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