Approximately 30% of the textiles recovered for recycling in ... With as many as 26 rag cutters working at one time in Newark and an additional 13 in the company’s North Carolina plant, Star ...

6 MARKER IS MADE Before cutting begins, the pattern must be organized to keep wasted fabric to a minimum. This puzzle-like arrangement (the sleeve placed next to the collar placed next to the ...

Enter rag rugs, floor covers made from scrap fabrics ... Each notch should be about one-and-a-half inches deep. 1. Start by cutting the fabric into strips about one-and-a-half inches wide.

Learn more. James Lynds slid a green T-shirt through the rag-cutting machine and trimmed off the seams, pockets and logos, slick as a whistle. He placed two, 1-foot-square pieces of cloth ...

Re Rag Rug is an experimental design project that ... the team behind the initiative designed 12 unique rugs using 12 different textile techniques over a 12 month period. The group reused waste ...

While rag collectors have warned that the price they are able to pay is forever reducing, it may take some time for this to be accepted by customers selling material. There is often an impasse in the ...

The three raiders – who swiped goods that would have helped an Annan old folk’s home – have been slammed by the boss of The Rag Bag recycling ... smashed into the textile bank outside ...

TORONTO - The Textile Museum of Canada has launched a mobile ... Stories about the places and the "rag trade" have been contributed by designers Linda Lundstrom and Kingi Carpenter, writer Rick ...