Fused plastic

Are you overrun with plastic grocery bags? I sure am. My cabinets are overflowing with them! I use them for trash and recycle them whenever I can find a place that will take them but still — they still seem to multiply.

Sewing Tutorial: Fused Plastic Bag Tote

Continued frrm last photo... Detail of the fused plastic bag coat. Produce netting, bread bags, newspaer tranfer prints, and other plastic bags are fused in a careful slow layering process. The continual application of heat causes the fabric surface to become organically skin-like . So proud to have my coat chosen for this contest on June 24, 2010: blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/06/save_my_oceans_top_fiv... See next photo...

During the last election, a lady from a TV show called to ask me if I had a project to re-use the election banners after the e...

gulnur ozdaglar creates jewelry and other objects from PET bottles. most pieces are characterized by the many tiny holes which ozdaglar individually

Are you overrun with plastic grocery bags? I sure am. My cabinets are overflowing with them! I use them for trash and recycle them whenever I can find a place t…

How to upcycle, repurpose, refashion and re-make everything from jewelry to kids clothing and home decor.

Writeup (5/20): www.dabbled.org/2009/05/tutorial-fusing-plastic-or-how-to... See the really cool stuff she makes with this! (some here) SoSheSews: www.flickr.com/photos/11260891@N04/ 1. Fusing Plastic Bags: Things you need, 2. Fusing Plastic Bags: The Bags!, 3. Fusing Plastic Bags: Step One, 4. Fusing Plastic Bags: Step Two, 5. Fusing Plastic Bags: Don't forget the Earth!, 6. Fusing Plastic Bags: Step Three, 7. Fusing Plastic Bags: Step Four, 8. Fusing Plastic Bags: Step Five, 9. Fusing…

This project is one which has evolved out of my recent experiments with fused plastic. It’s a way of recycling old crayons and plastic bags creatively and I love the finished ‘leaf-like’ feel of these. The finished leaves can be used for a wide range of purposes, or alternatively you could cut the fused plastic sheets up into any shape you like. Materials Plain white plastic bags – or bags with large areas of white that can be used. Roll of Cling film Old wax crayons Metallic Gold Ink Pen…

Chua Ken Jin has embarked on a different path, one that would change the way people perceive waste and its potential to be transformed into something useful.