Clothing from Closets for Contemporary Textile Sculptures

A lot of useless things are collected in every closet or home wardrobe. Stuffed with old clothing closets looks small and unkempt. If you decide to get rid of clutter, organize your closet and start clutter free life, or if you want to sell your property and need to declutter your house, simple changes bring an amazing improvement.

Old clothing can help others or can be recycled. Cleaning of clutter provides material for contemporary textile sculptures made of used clothes. Artists recycle jeans and old clothing and create impressive textile installations from second hand clothes. Carefully folded and stacked used clothes and textile look colorful and entertaining.

Contemporary textile art works take the form of wedges, columns, walls, curves and interesting enclosures. Creative second hand textile installations, that look like large geometric shapes, encourage people to get rid of clutter and recycle jeans and old clothing from their cluttered closet shelves.

Contemporary textile sculptures, second hand clothing

Used textile sculptures help declutter home and recycle old clothing

One textile sculpture may require up to two tons of second hand clothes. Huge contemporary unique designs demonstrate that people continue clearing of clutter their closets regularly.

Artists say, used textile sculptures are a unique way to interact with people by old clothing that can tell stories about people’s busy lives, work and interests.

New York artist Derick Melander, www.derickmelander.com/ explained his way of dealing with used clothes. His approach to design of old clothing and second hand textile is creative and unique way to recycle jeans and old clothing. Each design, made of second hand clothes, feels personal. Old clothes show wear, fade, stains and stretches that say a lot about people who had these old clothing before.

Recycle jeans and old clothing, second hand textile

Contemporary second hand textile sculptures are a new way of finding the connection between the personal life and the world outside. Artists create textile installations that recycle used clothing from closet shelves and give a chance to look at the conflict between the self and the society.

Old clothing is recording people presence in the world. Second hand textile installations are tracing people activities, characters and preferences.

Used clothes are folded to exact dimensions, slowly builds the textile sculpture. Each contemporary design made of clutter has its own color scheme and texture. To design of clutter, the sculptor sorts old clothing and textile for sculpture not only by color, but by gender also. Old clothing connect together with shirt sleeves, pant legs and belts to form second hand textile sculpture.

Folding used clothes and stacking add layers of a certain meaning to each design made of old clothes, says the contemporary artist. Used clothing items have spots and hand-sewn repairs. Some of donated to recycle jeans and old clothing have names written inside the collar or belt.

Second hand clothing installations

Old clothing and second hand textile garments feel like a collective portrait of the society. Old clothing and second hand textile garments get compressed to shape the design the society is creating.

Contemporary textile sculptures symbolize the conflict between a person and the society. And maybe the inner conflict with the person inside for whom getting rid of clutter from the closet became a problem. (Read more about kids room decorating with clutter)

Each contemporary textile sculpture is made of clutter that feels personal. Each textile installation represents people, symbolizes a single life and the society, intimate personal moments and the world events.

Recycle jeans or old clothing to decorate your home

Another smart idea that helps to declutter homes is to recycle jeans or old clothing with sleeves, making soft cushions or Alphabet Pillows. Old clothing, like shirts, dresses, jeans and jackets can be used to decorate home and get rid of clutter.

Pillow designs are made of closet clutter. Cute cushions with buttons and pockets offer functional, inviting and unique home decorations.

Pillows made of old clothing. Creative ideas to recycle jeans and old clothing with sleeves, photos from www.nakedsewing.blogspot.com/
Alphabet Pillows, made of used textile garments. Creative designs made of used clothing, jackets and shirts