The textiles group is having a Clothing Swap at the Star & Sailor Pub, Western Road near Waitrose (map) this coming Wednesday, July 9 at 8 p.m. Bring at least five unwanted clean items to swap. It's in the upstairs bar.
If you can't make it, why not have your own clothing swap party? Invite at least five friends to bring clothes they don't want, get nibbles and wine and swap away! I don't buy new clothes any more because I always get at least two or three excellent items every time I go to a swap. Take the leftovers to your nearest charity shop who will be overjoyed!
Best wishes, Kat (Swapo-rama-rama)
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Clothing Swap – Wed 9 July
Textiles group meeting – Fri 27 June
The Textiles group will be meeting to discuss Swap-o-rama-rama at the Green Wave festival on Fri 27 June. Time and venue to be confirmed - call Kat on 07958 964810 for info if you would like to be involved (free entry to the festival, free clothes!) Or e-mail textiles*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk.
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Swapo-Rama-Rama clothes swap and revamp – Sat 26 April
Clothes swapping and customising day. Sat 26 April, 11am–4pm at the Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton (map) (£donation)
Bring unwanted clothes and learn to alter, mend, embroider, sequin, etc... customise your new finds! Also recycled cloth bags and other workshops.There will be talks and films on the sustainable clothing production and use. More info: textiles*at*transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk
Notes from Textiles and Clothing group meeting – 6 December
Notes by Kat Neeser
Actions
Action (Person)
Give Sarah ‘Magpie girl’s number (Kat)
Find out how to recycle swatches (Sarah)
Contact Chris and get set up as a moderator (Beth)
Get names of funding books (Beth)
PAN UK talk at Brighton Uni – possibility of doing a talk (Sarah)
Speak to BPEC about Green Pages (Jess)
Send Kat information about Fringe Festival – possibility of organising swap for then (Sarah)
Present: Kat Neeser, Sarah Bigley, Jess Clynewood, Beth Tilston
Contact Details (@ = at to avoid spammers on website:
Beth – wine_and_corduroy at hotmail.com
Kat – katneeser at hotmail.com
Sarah – sarah.bigley at btinternet.com
Jess – jessclynewood at email.com
Agenda
1) Review notes of previous meeting.
2) Set aims and objectives for the future.
3) Organise date of next meeting.
1) Review notes of previous meeting
The previous meeting was held on 25th July 2007. Please see the notes of this meeting on www.transitionbrightonandhove.org.uk.
2) Set aims and objectives for the future
‘How are the textiles group going to respond to the challenges of peak oil and climate change?’
• Reduce, reuse, recycle, reskill, remake, re-educate ... treasure your clothes!
• Appeal to people's aesthetic nature and need to retain element of style.
• Increase individuality
• encourage and increased creativity
• increase self-esteem by developing skills and creativity. We wear new and fashionable clothes to feel good about ourselves, but guess what ... learning new skills and using your creativity makes you feel even better ... and you get new clothes into the bargain!
• decrease reliance on hugely polluting imported cotton and other commercially produced/imported clothes
• awareness raising of environmental impact of cheap clothing production through films and talks - probably have these on at our fun and creative events.
• Link up with ethnic groups and older people (especially older women): wealth of dressmaking/mending/other related skills.
• Link older people and younger people together in creative projects
• twice-weekly selling workshops (separate project, see notes in Textiles and Clothing on forum)
• Swaporamarama event: April 26, 2008 at the Cowley club (we will be providing space, tools and knowledge to enable people to customise clothes. Essentially everyone has to bring along a bag of clothes and they are then free to pick up clothes that other people have brought. That's the swap part. The customisation part comes in when we provide tables with sewing machines and other 'customising' equipment and experts to help people adapt the clothes they have picked up into something new and exciting. The idea is called Swaporamarama and started in America.)
• Encouraging and promoting home clothes swapping parties. Swapping is the new shopping!
• Work with schools e.g. link up with school jumble sales, knitting and patterns on jumpers classes (??), finger knitting, booklets (??), after-school clubs. Possible contact for advice is Sibel from Shäbitat (sibel@leftover.co.uk )
• other notes: Ragroof Theatre and the Boston Museum
3) date for next meeting to be confirmed shortly. Contact Kat Neeser for details.
Learn to make your own clothes and gifts
Buy Nothing Day: Make Your Own Gift Workshop – 24 November 2007 (check this space again soon for updates)
If shopping, especially at Christmas, is just a chore that seems to contribute nothing more to the world than piles of unwanted goods, come join us for an alternative. There's nothing as original and thoughtful as making presents yourself...Drop in to the Cowley Club from 11am–5pm on Buy Nothing Day, Saturday November 24th for a day of practical playfulness, creative craftiness and skill-sharing, with workshops including:
Learn to knit or make your own clothes
Make your own cards/candles/tetra-pack wallets
Children's workshops making sock monkeys/monsters
Renewable energy toys
Paper making
Also swap something old for something new at our Freecycle stall, take away recipes and instructions for home-made presents... make some friends and come away with something truly unique.
Buy Nothing Day is an annual event started in 1992 as a means to highlight excessive unnecessary consumption in today's Western culture. This event is part of an initiative to reduce consumption by Transition Brighton and Hove.
Links to past actions and what it's all about here.
Notes of meeting on July 25th for Textiles and Clothing
Notes by Kat Neeser
1. If we are to address climate change and peak oil, we cannot keep importing cheap clothing and throwing almost new clothing away.
2. We need to aim to increase clothing production in the UK, and make locally produced clothing and textiles affordable to all.
3. We must encourage people to recycle clothing, for example swapping nearly new clothing with friends, family and neighbours. See ryanishungry.com for example of how cooperatives could be set up to put systems in place.
4. If we don’t swap clothing, what can be done with our old clothes? They can be altered/improved/screen printed/re-styled. Clothes could be produced from old sheets/curtains/remnants. Classes would be needed to help people learn how to sew and style clothing.
5. New fabrics could be produced from recycled knitted and woven garments. We would need to explore how to make better use of sustainable materials such as hemp/nettles/other locally produced natural products..
6. We would need to seek sponsorship to obtain sewing machines/printing presses, and other equipment. The Cowley Club could perhaps offer space?
7. There is enormous scope for the sharing and exchanging of skills, eg. LETS schemes. http://www.letslinkuk.net/
8. The web can be used to exchange skills/experience/willingness to help, but we need to remember that there are still many who do not have access..
9. No scheme can be successful unless we maintain a balance, considering the needs of all sections of the population, eg. The poor, elderly and disabled, those with young children, low paid – may not be able to participate in schemes which involve time spent sewing and knitting/travelling to production centres, etc.
10. We also need to consider the impact of our actions on developing countries – many Asian countries depend upon income from cheap clothing production. Whatever we do will impact on every other economy.
11. Participants in this group were:
PLEASE NOTE THAT EMAIL ADDRESSES HAVE "AT" INSTEAD OF @ DUE TO WEB SPIDERS..OR SOMETHING!
Georgia Corrie – singsister2003 "at" yahoo.com
Kat Neeser – katneeser "at" hotmail.com
Amelia Mills – ameliamills "at" onetel.com
Beth Tilston – wine_and_corduroy "at" hotmail.com
Maureen Winder – M.E.Winder "at" sussex.ac.uk
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