Refashioning Techniques for a Sustainable Wardrobe
Felting techniques
A course by Gaia Segattini , Fashion designer
About the video: Felting techniques
Overview
“Felting is a very fun and very simple technique to create nice decorations for our sweater, but not only. The felted sweater is also great for making small items and accessories. In this lesson, I'll show you how to felted the leftover sweater or sweaters you no longer want in your wardrobe. I will show you what the ideal composition of wool is for this technique to be effective and how each type of yarn reacts differently to this technique. Finally, we will see together how to felting wool in the washing machine ... Who knows how many times you have done it by mistake by washing the sweaters at the wrong temperature!”
In this video lesson Gaia Segattini addresses the topic: Felting techniques, which is part of the Domestika online course: Refashioning Techniques for a Sustainable Wardrobe. Learn to give old and forgotten garments a second chance through basic refashioning techniques and minimize your environmental impact.
Partial transcription of the video
“Felting techniques How many times has this happened to us? To ruin a shirt in the washing machine... Actually, the felting technique is a very fun thing to do to make appliqués on our sweaters but also to create small accessories. In this lesson I will show you how to felt remnants or sweaters you don't want anymore. I always try to use sweaters with a percentage of wool equal or greater than 70%, because only with this composition I can felt them and make a series of decorations or sharp-cut accessories. The wool fibers, in fact, with water and air heat, but also with rubbing and movement,...”
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Course summary for: Refashioning Techniques for a Sustainable Wardrobe
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Category
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Areas
DIY, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Textile Design, Upcycling
Gaia Segattini
A course by Gaia Segattini
Gaia Segattini is an Italian fashion designer who grew up between the hills and the sea in the region of Marche. She fell in love with fashion as a little girl and, thanks to her mother, learned to sew and knit from an early age. As a young woman, she decided to take that passion to a professional level and enrolled in the University of Urbino to study fashion design. After graduating, she worked as a consultant for different sportswear and streetwear brands and wrote for magazines like Glamour Italia until she finally started her own blog: Vendetta Uncinetta.
She moved from her blog to Instagram where she built up a significant network of contacts that eventually led her to organizing festivals centered around independent artisan crafts such as Weekendoit in Ancona and the knitting section ""Cucito su di te"" at the Abilmente fair. Her blog, coupled with these events, opened the doors to working with major companies including Enel, Ikea, BMW, and Stefanel. In 2018, she founded Gaia Segattini Knotwear, her own brand devoted to sustainable handcrafted knitwear made in Italy.
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