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December 28, 2009 by Brenda
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ReVampt to launch new patchwork collection to coincide with Victoria & Albert museum special exhibition

With patchwork high on next season’s fashion agenda, specialist handmade accessories and furnishings company ReVampt – which creates items only made from reclaimed and vintage textiles – launches their new collection of beautiful patchwork items in February 2010.

This coincides with the Victoria & Albert museum’s “Quilts 1700-2010” exhibition in London which opens on 20 March, and at which ReVampt owner and designer Sarah Baulch will be running a two day patchwork quilt workshop and re-working textile workshop.

The ReVampt Patchwork Collection launches in February 2010 with a selection of items made from contemporary and vintage reclaimed fabrics – mainly denim – which are eco-friendly and sustainable off-cuts previously destined for landfill and sourced personally by Sarah from the fashion and textile industry, from high street brands to retired dress makers.

Each item in the collection is unique and made with sometimes personal vintage fabrics, such as an antique tablecloth hand embroidered by the seamstress’s own grandmother and an antique christening gown.

The collection contains a range of patchwork items such as throws, cushions, cot quilts, doorstops, bags, recovered chairs and stools, footstools, table runners and matching mats and even a peg bag.

Says Sarah, “Denim is such a great fabric to recycle, it is so hard-wearing with jeans and jackets normally only going at knees and elbows, leaving the rest of the item in great condition to turn into anything from a throw to a bag. People get so attached to their denim wear and often hate throwing it away; this is a great way of keeping hold of that beloved pair of jeans. Some of the items in this collection are actually made from denim stretching back thirty years, and with denim coming in such a wide range of colours, shades and weaves, every item in the collection is truly unique.”

Sarah will be working at the “Patchwork Social” quilt making Workshop at the V & A museum from on 1st and 2nd May 2010 as well as running the Re-Working Textile Worksop there on 3rd May.

Started in 2007, everything created by ReVampt is handmade in the UK, combining a 21st century eco approach with traditional skills and crafts.

Bespoke items are a speciality of the business, creating new items to order from fabrics reclaimed by Sarah herself, or clients can provide their own vintage textiles such as denim.

ReVampt can be visited at the Tearooms Market off Brick Lane, every Saturday and Sunday 10-6. The V&A Quilts exhibition can be seen here: http://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/future_exhibs/Quilts/index.html

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