A scrap of weathered fabric, discovered four decades ago in a peat bog, is the world’s oldest piece of tartan, with new analysis determining it dates to the 16th century. The textile was found in the ...

Use your fabric scraps to create a colorful and lightweight bowl. To start, cover the outside of a bowl with aluminum foil or plastic wrap so that the fabric will release from the bowl when dry. This ...

What do regular boutiques do with all their leftover fabric? In normal times, they would make toilet bags, jewellery pouches or some such thing. In pandemic times like now, they’ve been churning out ...

Sometimes the best DIY projects come from materials you would least expect—namely, the pile of leftover fabric from your other crafts. While the scraps from other sewing or quilting projects may not ...

COLORADO SPRINGS— Who give a scrap? Well, the planet sure does. Who Gives a Scrap is actually a donation-driven art supply store. It aims to divert unused art supplies and household items from going ...

Bertha Shum thought she had struck “waste gold” when she stumbled upon Sewing Paradise, a fabric studio in the Kowloon district of Sham Shui Po. The studio catered to the Hong Kong market, supplying ...

Do you save every little bit of beautiful fabric and yarn but need more ways to use it? This process is an easy way to use any size of textile scrap. Start with a larger scrap for the base cut to ...

A new line of bags at the fashion label Eileen Fisher features an abstract pattern that looks as though it has been painted on with brushstrokes. You’d never know that each design is painstakingly ...