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Plastic Fabric Demo at Make Shop

Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 13th, 2010

Want to learn how plastic grocery bags, laundromat bags, and other LDPE or HDPE plastic bags can be recycled into sewable fabric using common household tools like an iron, craft paper, and scissors? Steve Rainwater will be demonstrating the process at Make Shop & Studio, 313 N. Bishop Ave, Dallas, TX 75208 in the Bishop [...]

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EPA Earthfest Recycled Fashion Show

Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2010

As one of our projects for Earth Day, we experimented with fusing HDPE and LDPE plastic grocery bags into sewable fabric. The only logical thing to do once we’d succeeded at making fabric was to create actual garments from the material and enter them in a fashion show. We were able to submit an entry [...]

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