Sustainability & Fabric Manipulation

The Tarchi Recycled Vests project emerged from a very practical constraint: 5 kilograms of upholstery fabric that a furniture workshop was about to discard. This research documents the process of transforming waste into wearable objects.

Drawing on the traditions of Japanese boro textiles — clothing patched together from scraps, the most humble of objects elevated through accumulated care — each vest becomes a record of material salvage. The heavy, stiff upholstery fabric required different construction techniques than conventional fashion fabrics: fewer seams, more structural draping.

The project also engages with the growing slow fashion movement in Iran, where economic conditions have created their own creative constraints. Waste as material. Limitation as creative engine.