Garment Reconstruction: From Old to New

$134.00

Saturday February 28, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Faseeh Saleem

Materials Fee: $20 (paid directly to the Instructor)
Students: 12

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to take apart old garments and accessories and transform them into creative, wearable pieces. Explore embroidery, patchwork, visible mending, and other sustainable techniques to make unique upcycled garments that tell your story.

A basic sewing kit will be provided. Please bring fabric scissors, old garments, textile scraps, and any additional notions you’d like to use.

Saturday February 28, 2026
10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Instructor: Faseeh Saleem

Materials Fee: $20 (paid directly to the Instructor)
Students: 12

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to take apart old garments and accessories and transform them into creative, wearable pieces. Explore embroidery, patchwork, visible mending, and other sustainable techniques to make unique upcycled garments that tell your story.

A basic sewing kit will be provided. Please bring fabric scissors, old garments, textile scraps, and any additional notions you’d like to use.

Faseeh Saleem (he/him) is a Pakistani Canadian multidisciplinary research practitioner based in Oakville. With a deep passion for art and design thinking, his work explores the rigor of artistic design research to offer insightful and alternative conceptions of the body within the fields of art and design. He completed his doctoral studies at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden, in April 2024. His research practice spans material exploration through drawing, installation, sculpture, video, and performance. His works have been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide, including The Textile Museum of Borås (Sweden), Artlab Gallery (Canada), the 1st International Art Triennial Unpredictable Futures UFNA (Lithuania), designtransfer at Berlin University of the Arts (Germany), KHOJ Studios (India), Open Design for E-very-thing at Cumulus 2016 (Hong Kong), Stockholm Furniture Fair (Sweden), Alhamra Art Center (Pakistan), Articulate Studios (Pakistan), and many more.