On Monday, The “Mongolian Quilting Center” in collaboration with the HUB Business Innovation Department of Ulaanbaatar city has opened the event “Upcycle for your Women’s Day”. The fair will be open until Wednesday the 8th, 5pm at the Khaan Bank office at Seoul Street 25.
The purpose of the exhibit is to inspire fellow Mongolians to upcycle by showing the artistic and practical value of trash. The event organizers want to educate the public and demonstrate how re-using materials that we might think of as trash can make beautiful new products, save budget, and help the environment.
A highlight of the opening was a fashion show of recycled garments and accessories made from offcuts of the Mongolian clothing industry and old clothes. The founder of the Center, Ts.Selenge and designer S. Ganchimeg, along with their 28 seamstresses, used waste materials such as coffee bean bags, plastics, and fabrics as raw materials.
The Mongolian Quilting Center was founded in 2004 to develop quilting and to provide jobs for underprivileged women, disabled women, single moms, widows, and other women who have difficulty in finding jobs.
The fashion industry has a big impact on greenhouse emissions. Waste fabrics and clothes emit methane and pollute our soil and water with plastics and other chemical toxins.
“Why don’t we Mongolians try to upcycle our old clothes?”
Ts.Selenge, founder of Mongolian Quilting Center: “The history of quilting started during WWII, when housewives in most European countries started to re-use what they had to make new things. It started in the UK. As the Mongolian Quilting Center, we have gone through our own ups and downs recently that taught me lessons as well. During the past year, we have been trying to recover from the Covid-19 outbreak.
We get inspired when others get inspired by us. After we gave a training on upcycling, one of the women told me that she had just burnt her old clothes and now regretted it so much because she could have used them.
With this event, we would like to encourage all generations, especially the younger ones to use old materials for upcycling instead of throwing them away or burning them. Recycling these materials has several benefits:
- Saving money. This is great especially now during the economic recovery from Covid.
- Supporting local artisans
- Protecting nature by reducing waste
- I want people to get ideas from our event. We hope our young generations will turn upcycling into a new trend.
“Recycling is an art of its own”
Ganchimeg, Designer of the Center: “I know many internationally famous designers who use recycled designs in their fashion shows. When I saw these famous designers, I was dreaming that one day I would have my own fashion show. At that time, I knew little about recycling. It is a very sad that many liters of water to make one piece of pants. I want to show the new generations that you can upcycle your old clothes. In my upcycling show I am now also using upcycled plastics.”
During the event, there will be workshops on upcycling. Alongside the Mongolian Quilting Center, other NGOs that work on Green Technology are presenting their work at event.
On Monday, The “Mongolian Quilting Center” in collaboration with the HUB Business Innovation Department of Ulaanbaatar city has opened the event “Upcycle for your Women’s Day”. The fair will be open until Wednesday the 8th, 5pm at the Khaan Bank office at Seoul Street 25.
The purpose of the exhibit is to inspire fellow Mongolians to upcycle by showing the artistic and practical value of trash. The event organizers want to educate the public and demonstrate how re-using materials that we might think of as trash can make beautiful new products, save budget, and help the environment.
A highlight of the opening was a fashion show of recycled garments and accessories made from offcuts of the Mongolian clothing industry and old clothes. The founder of the Center, Ts.Selenge and designer S. Ganchimeg, along with their 28 seamstresses, used waste materials such as coffee bean bags, plastics, and fabrics as raw materials.
The Mongolian Quilting Center was founded in 2004 to develop quilting and to provide jobs for underprivileged women, disabled women, single moms, widows, and other women who have difficulty in finding jobs.
The fashion industry has a big impact on greenhouse emissions. Waste fabrics and clothes emit methane and pollute our soil and water with plastics and other chemical toxins.
“Why don’t we Mongolians try to upcycle our old clothes?”
Ts.Selenge, founder of Mongolian Quilting Center: “The history of quilting started during WWII, when housewives in most European countries started to re-use what they had to make new things. It started in the UK. As the Mongolian Quilting Center, we have gone through our own ups and downs recently that taught me lessons as well. During the past year, we have been trying to recover from the Covid-19 outbreak.
We get inspired when others get inspired by us. After we gave a training on upcycling, one of the women told me that she had just burnt her old clothes and now regretted it so much because she could have used them.
With this event, we would like to encourage all generations, especially the younger ones to use old materials for upcycling instead of throwing them away or burning them. Recycling these materials has several benefits:
- Saving money. This is great especially now during the economic recovery from Covid.
- Supporting local artisans
- Protecting nature by reducing waste
- I want people to get ideas from our event. We hope our young generations will turn upcycling into a new trend.
“Recycling is an art of its own”
Ganchimeg, Designer of the Center: “I know many internationally famous designers who use recycled designs in their fashion shows. When I saw these famous designers, I was dreaming that one day I would have my own fashion show. At that time, I knew little about recycling. It is a very sad that many liters of water to make one piece of pants. I want to show the new generations that you can upcycle your old clothes. In my upcycling show I am now also using upcycled plastics.”
During the event, there will be workshops on upcycling. Alongside the Mongolian Quilting Center, other NGOs that work on Green Technology are presenting their work at event.