Tags | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

We have 6 objects tagged upcycling.

Sheer silver-gray ground with squares of stiff, slubbed kibiso, contracted to make the gray ground pucker

Textile, Kibiso Window, 2009
100% silk (raw silk and kibiso).
Courtesy of NUNO Corporation, Tsuruoka Fabric Industry Cooperative, and....
89.2015.5

Flexible polyurethane panel embedded with linen selvedges

Textile Panel, Linen Fringes, since 1996
linen selvedges, polyurethane.
Courtesy of Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.
88.2015.15a,b

This object was made by Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.

Narrow width of heavy fabric with a black ground and stripes of kibiso fiber.

Textile, Kibiso Stripe, 2008
100% silk (raw silk and kibiso).
Courtesy of NUNO Corporation, Tsuruoka Fabric Industry Cooperative, and....
89.2015.10

Large rectangular shawl of pieced silk and cotton, appliquéd with tikdi dots of jamdani cut from the smallest scraps.

Tikdis Shawl, 2008
silk, cotton metallic thread.
Courtesy of dosa inc..
87.2015.6

This object was made by dosa, inc..

Tiny charms or amulets in the form of embroidered, stuffed rectangles or triangles of jamdani cotton.

Amulets, 2016
hand-spun, hand-woven brocaded cotton jamdani scraps, pieced and embroidered.
Courtesy of dosa inc..
87.2015.7-1/42

This object was made by dosa, inc..

Panel of flexible polyurethane, embedded with short, multicolored silk fringes cut from fabric selvedges during weaving.

Textile Panel, Spread, since 1996
cut silk selvedges, polyurethane.
Courtesy of Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.
88.2015.6a,b

This object was made by Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.