Embracing the discarded explores the unused textile materials in the hotel industry. In collaboration with Gigi Lui, we contacted multiple Vancouver hotels and asked for any textiles they were no longer using, this resulted in two hotels giving us, sheets, towels, blankets, and pillows.
The material
Areas of Interest
Comfort
Experimental
Repurpose
Alterations
Objective
Highlight the lack of concern we have for the items that we dispose of before it has genuinely been worn through. Created material manipulation to turn these simple and thin textiles into a range of home items that can be brought into our personal spaces.
The alterations
woven carpet
ocean plait knot poufe
quilted pillows and couch covering
felted seat cover
In context photos
