“There’s an expression, Mottai-nai!, in Japanese, which we say to remind ourselves not to let anything go to waste,” says Japanese textile artist Reiko Sudo. A longtime collaborator with Japanese ...

The average person throws away dozens of pounds of clothing every single year. Mountains of discarded garments pile up in landfills while perfectly good material goes to waste. Giving old clothes a ...

Peg Mayor, founder and chief creator at the Etsy shop Raging Wool, www.ragingwool.etsy.com, also sells once a year at University School in Hunting Valley. "That usually takes up all the inventory I've ...