Sweet home Alabama ... It was in 2009 when diving on the web I found this treasure ... Beyond the obvious in the mastery of work, say a treasure because it is creativity applied to sustainability. Alabama Chanin
, back to the land of cotton meadows after traveling the world doing textiles, rediscovered its roots.
cotton manufacturing industry in Alabama was in decline for some time, but their fields were producing the largest volume of cotton in the world, its production was exported almost in its entirety and returned from China in the form of t ... (Familiar story?)
Alabama began to recycle old cotton jersey T-shirts ... and transformed them into couture clothing, comfortable and flattering, feminine, giving all that hand work specialized work in quilting (thrilled to tears their stories by interviewing the people of Alabama about the sacks of flour were transformed into quilts, and bags provided the thread unwoven snuff for assembling the parts, because they had nothing, and did nothing all) ...
... and then went a step further (step giant) promoted the planting cotton without pesticides or chemical fertilizers, organic cotton in Alabama.
With techniques of his own invention (a comprehensive step includes stencil, lace, sewing and embroidery) modifies the appearance of simple cotton jersey, and not only that, share it with whoever wants to try , in his books
Alabama Stitch Book and Alabama
Style studio ... both wonderful!
much as I hope you enjoy this discovery ...!
