Textiles and Clothing Group

Textiles and Clothing Group

Textiles and Clothing Group Open Meeting – Tuesday 9th February

The Textiles and Clothing Group will be holding their next meeting on Tuesday 9th February 2010, venue tbc.

Minutes of first meeting:

TTB Textiles and Clothes Group meeting minutes 02.06.09 

Present – Clara , Jamey, Maggie, Bonnie, Hannah, Jen, Fiona, Duncan, Shona, Adam 

1. Event – Workshop on growing crops for cloth making and impacts – Clara, Jen, Bonnie, Adam

2. Reskilling

• Sewing and remaking – Jamey
• Knitting – Shona and Sarah?
• Shoes/cobblers?

  3. Resources

• Sewing machine – Fiona?
• Haberdashery – with reels of cotton and buttons ect – Duncan, Clara?
• Guide on what to do with waste clothes – Hannah
• Swap shop – Duncan?

  4. Venues

• Sewing venue – ‘Oh Sew Brixton’ Fiona

  5. Other organisations to work with

• Stitch and Bitch
• Spinners darning
• Hemp power
• Traid
• Barnardo’s charity shop
• Ragman?
• Papered Parlour
• Bricolage