How many different products can you make from recycled textiles?
If we’re talking fabric.. . . You can make anything you sew out of smaller pieces. There are people out there who have instructions for making children’s clothing out of adult clothing. . . and of course the hole folk art sector of quilt making comes from what to do with small pieces. But even smaller pieces can be recycled as well. I’ve read about building insulation made out of recycled jeans (on a company level) and bought office folders made out of recycled jeans as well. (There is paper made out of cotton, so I suppose lots of paper/cardboard materials could have recycled fabric fibers incorporated into them and either utilize the preexisting colors–textiles would have to be sorted by color before destruction–or be something where color doesn’t matter much–like a plain ole cardboard box.) Insulation and paper products are examples of things that could be made from absolutely worn out, pretty much done fabrics (those jeans with 10 holes). Within the home context, I tend to patch
