TOP-atelier has developed a guide that offers advice to designers who want to work on upcycling textile waste streams.

For each step of the production chain, you will find the challenges TOP-atelier has faced, the most important lessons and some tips and tricks, such as contacts with the Belgian fashion/confection industry. The complete guide is only available in Dutch, but we give you an overview of the main challenges TOP-atelier faced during its research and the solutions found.

An overview of the challenges and lessons learned

For each stage of the production process :

TOP-atelier shares these tips to support designers in their steps towards a profitable business model. And because it wants to show that it is possible to produce high quality products from textile waste streams in Belgium, in a scalable and market-friendly way.

TOP-atelier strives to deepen the knowledge gained by conducting additional research. New perspectives, challenges and lessons learned will therefore be added here.