Our Social Fabric

I have just joined an amazing non profit organization called OUR SOCIAL FABRIC. As a fashion designer, I have first hand experience with the amount of fabric that goes to waste. So, I was more than ecstatic to jump on board with this group.

Well, it is,
We are a group of individuals working to establish a viable, socially responsible non-profit organization in Vancouver’s downtown east side community. Our focus is to specialize in textile collection, recycling and re-manufacturing, while providing employment and social reintegration opportunities for residents of our community.
Why Textiles?
Textiles are one the most common household items and represent a staggering proportion of the solid waste stream: approximately 16kg per person, or a total of 33,600 tonnes in Metro Vancouver in 2006, to give you an idea.
Despite the volume of this waste, few options exist to reuse or recycle salvageable textile items – and next to none for those items that can not be resold. As a result, these textiles end their still-functional lives in the landfill or waste-to-energy incinerator.
Our Social Fabric believes that this unnecessary waste can be not only be avoided, but channeled to create positive change in Vancouver’s most impoverished neighbourhood. Aside from the obvious benefits of reducing the waste we are diverting to landfills and waste-to-energy facilities, textile recycling can have a direct impact on the soci-economic viability of the downtown east side. Jobs are needed now, and our goal is to recycle donated and salvaged textiles into new products, from clothing to utility products.
We invite Metro Vancouver residents to get involved by donating their textiles, time, or resources to this innovative initiative. Witness and take part in the birth and growth of this unique venture, which not only benefits the environment but the economy and all citizens of our community.

We are also having an Epic Sale at my shared studio Haiku Studio. If you are looking for fabric, know of anyone who is looking for fabric, this sale is not to be missed.

   Our Social Fabric is Spring Cleaning!!

                         3 DAY SALE

 Our Social Fabric is hosting a ‘Fill-A-Bag’ sale!! 

If you have never experienced one of these extravaganzas you are in for a real treat! The rules are simple -

              1) You purchase one of 3 sizes of bag from us (ranging from $25 -$100 sizes)

              2) You go digging, searching and swimming through piles and piles of amazing fabric

              3) You squish as much stuff into the bag as humanly possible

              4) Everyone wins!

                                                 

We invite you to join us

                at

Haiku Studios

Dominion Building in Gastown

#207 – West Hastings St (corner of Cambie and West Hastings)

Studio 410

4-8 Friday April 21 

11-5 Saturday April 22
  and
 11-5 Sunday April 23

 We also have Bolts of fabric, and some of our donations have come from

  STARGATE SERIES

  SUCKERPUNCH

  SMALLVILLE

 HUMAN TARGET

 and we also Accept Visa/MC/Amex/Debit and cash

 any Questions please email oursocialfabric@gmail.com

  www.oursocialfabric.org