Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques

Combine innovative reverse dye techniques with unconventional objects to create unique, sustainable garments in your own personal style

• Introduction
• Materials, Tools, and Research
• Bleaching, Printing, and Embellishing the Garment
• Creating Outfits and Other Applications
• Final project

“I believe in art and fashion as healing practices. They help people express their feelings, develop insights, and make sense of difficult life experiences.”

Designer and artist Giselle Manzano Ramírez aims to empower people through fashion, using clothing as a canvas to convey meaning and emotion. She has worked with organizations like the NYC Department of Sanitation and hosted workshops at Pratt Institute, among others.

In this online course, she teaches you how to explore a garment as a medium for expression through experimental techniques. Learn the skills needed to give your garments a second life and transform a jacket into a work of art. Visual communication, design, art, and fashion are the keys to changing the world. Are you ready to explore their power?

• About Me
• Influences
• Materials and Tools
• Psychology of Color
• Building a Visual Narrative: Defining the Theme and Message
• Fabrics and Outcomes
• Shibori Reverse Dyeing Technique 1
• Shibori Reverse Dyeing Technique 2
• Shibori on a Garment
• Printmaking with Everyday Objects
• Surface Embellishments
• Planning a Whole Outfit
• Other Techniques and Applications
• Resources to Sell Your Pieces
• Textile Design: Upcycling Clothes with Experimental Techniques