Action research

We learn by wrecking things.

Every workshop doubles as an experiment - in repair, in redesign, in how you actually teach a generation to keep their clothes alive. Hands on. In the room. With the people it's for.

Repair · Redesign · Rebel

The techniques the workshop is built on.

Bleaching, stencilling, patching, painting, construction - beginners walk out makers.

A denim sample board of bleaching and stencil techniques with handwritten Swedish labels.
Denim swatches showing hardware - buttons, rivets and studs - beside the reference book "Denim Branded".
Denim construction swatches with handwritten Swedish labels beside the reference book "Denim Branded".Construction, labelled
Boxes of textile-paint bottles and marker pens in a tub on the workshop table.Paints & pens
A wire basket of coiled indigo, grey and natural macramé cord and rope.Cord & rope
▶ Making the mark

In the room

We learn by doing.

No lectures - every technique is taught with a marker, a needle or a bucket of bleach in your hand. Watch a piece take shape.

A styled denim display on reclaimed bricks with white Levi's sneakers and folded Levi's jeans.

A real school project

What we did with Levi's

Levi's

Levi’s handed a class of students real jeans and free rein to cut, bleach and rebuild them.

The pieces they made still hang in the workshop today - and they’re a big part of why Denim Republic exists.

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