featured label
fabrikade is a woven fabric, a big family with members from different places, put together to form a big piece of art. We are always acquiring new labels so that we can give you a better range of apparel and merchandise for that wonderful shopping experience. Every 3 months, we will feature one family member (label) so that you can get to know better what you are wearing on yourself, and perhaps how you can add some oomph to your personality.
rags2bags (Singapore)
Beauty of the imperfections, I behold.
The exact reason for the bubble thought of rags2bags. So the story goes some 10 years back, when I sought out the employment of a certain leading brand of jeaneries. The provision of simple length alteration was available in every outlet. With alteration come remnants.
The irregular bits and chunks of mostly denim that were trashed on a daily basis, held a complete different value to me. So did the apparels of last season and the worn, slightly tattered, printed skirt, shirt and the like.
They were good material.
As with what is commonly known as the chipboard/particleboard, that stemmed 'almost entirely from the use of recycled materials'. These unwanted, discarded scraps of denim could be transformed into useful if not beautiful products, upon an injection of patience, passion, recreation, applied with the technique of patchwork.
Patience to carry through process from step 1 till completion.
Passion to breeze me through when the going gets tough.
Recreation where the fun is to break it all up, mix it around abit, we get a 'reaction' from a creation of what was 're-created', plus, minus.
From patchwork to colours. Appreciation for colours and prints alike has triggered the incorporation of denim scraps with printed fabrics, new or used, with a mélange of buttons, buckles, zippers, pockets or just threads in various colours for multiple projects.
The projects utilizing recycled materials, serve to create awareness, as demonstrations of how one can REDUCE wastage, REUSE scraps, RECYCLE good material, which many a times, fall within the misunderstood category of 'trash' and eventually end up in the incinerator or the landfill. All in all just baby steps in contributing to loving mother earth.
A 2nd chance, a new life.
To behold beauty of the imperfections.
My patchwork dream, my pride.
- ♥ Mato, rags2bags (Singapore)