Refashion Day

15 / 12 / 14

TRAID Education were invited along to the Makerversity in Somerset House to join Hubbub for their Refashion Day. photo credit: Hubbub Refashion Day was designed to inspire people to give their clothes a second chance with creative activities from leading clothes menders and upcyclers, including a talk from the upcycling designer Orsola de Castro. TRAID are always looking for ways…

Queen’s Park Student Talks Upcycling

15 / 12 / 14

Following another successful upcycled hat making project at Queen's Park Community School, Year 10 student Grace McKinlay offers an insight into the project: In Miss Fitzwilliam's textiles class, everyone is very busy. Sewing machines are humming; students are expertly weaving tassels and pom-poms, and everybody's hats are beginning to look as professional as the sort of accessories you'd expect to…

Get Your Knit On

21 / 10 / 14

Last Thursday TRAID Dalston kept their doors open a little later to help everyone with their Winter wardrobe. On hand were our in-store stylists helping shoppers find their #secondhandfirst Winter staples whilst TRAID Education were busy helping give longer life to knitwear in our Repair Your Knitwear workshop. We were joined by the fabulous Sweaterspotter (AKA Anna Maltz) - a…