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Most of of our pieces are either one of a kind or limited edition. However some pieces can be replicated. Feel free to get in touch for any made to order commissions.
Luxury Handmade Kimonos
The sun is out and summer is on its way. Our festival preparations are coming along nicely. We have been mainly busy with making our festival staple, the kimono cover up. It's a more modern, casual and airy take on the classic Japanese variety. We use vintage...
Patchwork Tub Chair No 7
I couldn't resist to make another one! Had all these gorgeous bits of velvet left from the wing back armchair project that I wanted to use and a tub chair came into Shabitat this week so perfect timing! Its up there with my favourites this one. I do have some more of...
Cushion Cover Making Classes in Brighton
A great way to utilise smaller bits of fabrics is cushion making. You could either sew a patchwork top with the smaller pieces you have, or if you have big enough pieces (half of a meter should be plenty) create a simple cushion cover with a zip like these below. Not...
Eco Gifts- Hot Water Bottles
That particular time of the year is approaching fast. People are stressing out about what to buy for each other and end up getting something completely random and unwanted. One thing to take in to consideration is how much we buy around Christmas and how much of...
Chair Painting and Upholstery Workshops & Classes
Painting chairs is an easy way to give them a new look, but the real change happens when you replace the fabric on the seating. Even a non-painted battered old chair looks so much better with a newly upholstered seat. Here are a few samples of what we have made in the...
Acid Smiler Jumpers
I embellished three oversized hippy jumpers with acid smilers a couple of years ago to take to festivals. They got snapped up straight away! So now we make them in different colours on sweatshirts and jumpers. Still all made from 100% reclaimed textiles of course. We...
Festival Season 2014
Compare to last years nine, we kept the numbers lower this year. Four festivals in four months and the 2014 season is well and truly over for us! With the time now needed to run Shaboutique, we wanted to focus on a few key festivals instead. [gallery columns="1"...
Shaboutique- A shop dedicated to all thing beautifully upcycled.
These are very exciting news. We are getting a shop! We have teamed up with Shabitat to open up a boutique where Brighton based artists and makers can display and sell their upcycled products and wares. It will be within the newly developed Brighton Open Market...
Eco Kimonos
Summer is here which also means festival season is here! So we have been busy making our best sellers; one off a kind sustainable kimonos ! We reuse vintage saris, cotton sarongs, silk scarfs and all sorts of other high quality that fabrics that come our way. We don't...
Reupholstered Patchwork Tubchair
It's been too long since I reupholstered a tub chair. I love doing them as I can use off-cuts I have left from other projects plus the actual re-upholstery job on these are pretty straight forward. I always go for very bright colours but I have been told that even...
Patchwork Armchair Upholstery
Ysanne and Peter had these old armchairs that were left from Ysanne's grandad. The armchairs were comfortable and structurally fine so they just wanted to give them a second life buy having the patchwork magic done to them. Peter had already...
2013 Festival Season Highlights
Another festival summer marathon has come to an end! What a great adventure that was. Boy am I exhausted though! Meadowlands, Sunrise, Patchfest, Secret Garden Party, Bimble Bandada, Wilderness, Give!, Brunswick and Bestival. Phew! The highlight this year (from a work...