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A Taste Of Natural Dye and Leather Craft Workshop

The Backward Vendor x seventyfive
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12-20 September 2020

Mon-Thu 11am-5pm, Fri 6pm-9pm, Sat-Sun 11am-5pm
The Backward Vendor
Unit 23, Gossamer City Project
The Oval, London
E2 9FN
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seventyfive

seventyfive is a fashion brand based in North London focusing on handmade garments, accessories and hand crafts. seventyfive integrates aesthetics prominent in (North Eastern) Chinese, Cantonese and transnational Chinese craft, design and culture.

Our garments are a relationship between body, object and memory. In this way, these garments represent my memory and experience. seventyfive as a brand is an expression of the places my family and I have called and still call home. seventyfive is also where I live, where I learnt the techniques being used in this brand's handmade garments. This makes seventyfive a reflection on personal experience and memory.

Through this brand, my memories and the memories shared to me by my family intersect with my experiences in London, including my time at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art. seventyfive is also a change of pace; it is the exploration and practice of slow-fashion. I am attempting to create garments that will live as long as the people and memories that inspired them.

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Fashion brand seventyfive and leathercraft brand The Backward Vendor have prepared a workshop where you will create one of the items from our recent collaborative collection, Summer Heat; the soup dumpling pouch. Join us in our installation to explore our sustainable and creative form of craftsmanship.

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Join us to make the soup dumpling craft pack, made from organic cotton that is naturally dyed with kitchen waste and then waxed as well as vegetable tanned leather. You will be able to choose the colour from our available colour range and you will also be able to emboss your initials on the leather to make it yours.

Our workspace and installation presents our recent collaborative collection, “Summer Heat”. Here we will show the process of recycling kitchen waste and using it in natural dye baths as well as how the products in the collection are made. 

About the Collection:

“Summer Heat” includes goods that are designed for picnics. In the collection we have a naturally dyed and waxed bento bag, a ‘soup dumpling’ pouch as well as a teacup and leather coaster set. The collection is crafted using raw materials: naturally dyed fabrics, and undyed leather. Vintage fabrics are coloured with food waste, such as onion, avocado skin and tea, whilst the naturally tanned leather used by us is also a food by-product. These materials are combined together by hand, with love and care, the end result being three eco-conscious products made almost entirely from waste products.

A core part of this collection is sustainability and waste reduction, so we’re upcycling kitchen waste. We’ve used onion skins, avocado skins, avocado seeds and tea for the dyes. These are by products of our kitchens and the kitchens of friends.