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Sustainability Project: Mending

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Mending Project             Date: March 25, 2022                  Clothing item: Jeans         Damage : Ripped seam on the outside right leg         How it happened: Pulled loose thread         Repair: Restitched the leg         Materials used: Green sewing thread         Difficulty:  ★ ☆☆☆☆                       Date: April 1, 2022          Clothing item:  Orca shirt          Damage : Small holes beside neckline          How it happened:  The shirt is just old          Repair:  Darning the holes          Materials used:  Navy embroidery thread and white sewing thread          Difficulty:  ★ ★ ★ ☆☆             Date: April 4, 2022          Clothing item:  OBX shirt          Damage : Small holes at the bottom          How it happened:  Fishing          Repair:  Stitching the hole          Materials used:  White sewing thread          Difficulty:  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆             Date: April 5, 2022          Clothing item:  Corduroy pants          Damage : Large tear on left knee and small star
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Sustainability Project: Ideation

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 Making Bags from Waste aNYbag weaving plastic waste into fabric with a loom to make tote bags video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2c_Luihic website: https://anybag.com/        insta: https://www.instagram.com/anybagproject/?hl=en needs theory bags and goods made from recycled rice bags bags and goods made from mail pouches website: https://www.needstheory.com/   insta: https://www.instagram.com/needstheory/?hl=en  Making Textiles from Waste bubble wrap & plastic grocery bags how to fuse plastic: http://www.wecanmakeanything.net/2014/09/how-to-fuse-plastic-bag.html Mending Clothes
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Red, White, & Black Make Blue

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HIRING JOHNSON Laurens & Johnson Willing to hire Johnson because he had witnessed that Native Americans would succeed where white counterparts could not He personally had experience with Native Americans in cultivating and in “cross cultural undertakings” Was impressed with their abilities in every aspect and told this to Grant as reason for him to work with Johnson Assumed Johnson would be able to handle the social and political challenges of a plantation manager because of his interactions with Cherokee diplomats during the Anglo-Cherokee War Laurens’ Work Remain involved in trade with Native Americans Began to decrease the amount of deerskins he was trading and increased the amount of goods being imported for Native Americans Most of these were textiles and after 1750 a lot of the blue woolens that native americans favored were dyed with indigo that had been sent to england from Laurens’ plantation in South Carolina Laurens’ Proximity to Native Americans  His work was surrounded
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Surface Design

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Final Solution Pattern #1                                                            Pattern #2 Pattern #3  
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