Get Creative! Buttons, ribbons, embroidery and beading, cutting up old jeans! 

This innovative, creative and fun upcycling fashion course enables you to bring to life to a pair of your favourite jeans, for example, or, an old t-shirt, a dress, even tailoring a man’s shirt into a woman’s shirt etc. Products can be embellished using buttons, applique, fabric paint, patchwork pieces, embroidery, even old jewellery to bling up and re-vamp an old t-shirt, or a strategic place on part of a garment such as on a pocket, collar or waist or hemline! Get Creative!

Sewing & Textile courses.

Have you always wanted to learn how to create or adjust your clothing? Swarthmore has multiple Pattern Cutting courses for you, taught by our very talented tutor Alison.

Abstract: Fashion sector activities currently approach ecosystem health largely as an operational issue and nature as dead resources. Typically, fashion industry needs are placed at the top of a hierarchy and nature at the bottom - if it is even considered at all. In this talk, a new fashion-nature relationship is enacted which moves beyond more ‘nature-friendly’ decisions slotted into the conventional system.