S4S Stitched-Up! Action for Sustainable Fashion is a community activism project run by S4S: a coalition of fashion designers, community groups, activists, academics and makers who are ‘Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing’ by promoting creative approaches to re-use, repair, recycling and sustainable design on a local, national and global scale.
S4S Stitched-Up! are running workshops for a research project into sustainable clothing and are currently recruiting for people to take part on the project. Participants will join a series of workshops with S4S Stitched-Up! designers to learn new skills, share ideas, make, mend and generally get creative about sustainable clothing. Workshop places are open to staff and volunteers at the Museum, travel expenses will be paid and there will be a reward of shopping vouchers for taking part in the research.
BCLM is hosting five workshops on Fridays (day time) from 25 May and workshop participants will be working with vintage patterns and recycled fabrics to make clothing for the 1940s Weekend in July. The project group will explore the approach taken to clothes in the wartime years with the ‘Make do and Mend’ campaign. Participants will be able to visit the museum during the 1940s weekend with a free day ticket on either 14 or 15 July to wear their newly created items in context .
The project will ask participants to evaluate how taking part in the workshops has influenced the sustainability of their clothing choices.
Places are limited so if you want to take part in this exciting project please contact Katie at [email protected] to secure your workshop place.
S4S Stitched Up! is part of a research project called S4S – Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing and we are working in partnership with Exeter University and a community group in Penryn, Cornwall, who are also doing workshops. The website is currently under construction, but you can find more information on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Twitter: @S4sSensibility
Instagram: s4s_sensibility
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/S4sSensibilty/
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