These designers have developed an approachable, at-home method of recycling tees.
. “That adds up to 15 million T-shirts a month, and 40 percent of that ends up being burned, or put into the ocean, or dumped in a landfill.” It’s not just Ghana, either. In November, photos of landfills entirely filled up with textile waste in Chile’s Atacama Desert went viral.
Capone is based in Portland, Oregon, but she had a trip planned to visit Hudson. While there, she and McMahon entered a “self-imposed residency,” as Capone describes it, to figure out what they could make with the T-shirt bale. Capone had just spent the holidays with her family, where they made potholders on a small loom. There was the answer: Because T-shirts are knitted on the round, they make circular strips of fabric that are easily woven on the loom.
“Weaving is such an amazing way of doing it because it acknowledges T-shirts as a raw material,” Capone says. “Textile has this unique property that it’s pliable and can have many lives. It can continue to be washed, dyed, torn apart and reconstructed into something new. I don’t believe in textile waste. There’s no need for it to be discarded. This is a familiar thing of a potholder loom, but jumbo.”McMahon assembling the circular strips of fabric into the warp on the loom.
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