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Our little start-up, FabPatch.au, is officially turning 1 year old this December! As we reflect on an incredible first year, we are filled with gratitude and pride for what we’ve achieved: ✅ December 2023: Launched 6 Stretch designs featuring two Aussie designers, bringing easy textile repairs to Australian customers. ✅ April: Hosted our inaugural Mending in Public Day for Fashion Revolution Week. ✅ May: Partnered with Peppermint Magazine to feature in their Winter issue and attended our first trade show, Naturally Good in Sydney. ✅ June: Earned a Highly Commended in the Naturally Good Awards (Home and Living category) and launched our brand-new website. ✅ August: Showcased at the Reed Gift Fair in Melbourne. ✅ October: Became Seamless Supporters, standing for ethical and sustainable repair practices. ✅ November: Launched Extreme, our toughest patch yet, perfect for hardwearing and water-repellent needs. Also built academic connections with Griffith and RMIT Universities, with Megan representing FabPatch on a sustainable fashion panel with RMIT. A heartfelt thank you to all our supporters, customers, and retail outlets. Your belief in the value of repair drives us forward. Together, we’re leading the repair revolution! 💚 Here’s to another exciting year of sustainable, practical, and stylish repair solutions.

Last Monday was #circularmonday and there's no better way to celebrate circular fashion and textiles that to launch a new product! We have now launched FabPatch EXTREME to the Australia market. EXTREME has a water repellent surface, is durable under heavy use and has good abrasion resistance. EXTREME to designed to repair tough and often outdoor uses such as shoes, tents, hiking and sporting gear, wetsuits, gumboots, pool toys, picnic blankets, etc etc etc!! There is no limit to the items it can repair. 💚

Australians are the world’s top fashion consumers, buying 56 items annually on average. While secondhand shopping is growing, fast fashion still dominates, driven by trends and low prices. Solutions like France’s fast fashion tax could curb overconsumption and support sustainable practices here. As a business focused on clothing and textile repair, we believe incentivising longevity and repair, is key. Let's rethink how we shop—and repair—to reduce our environmental impact. https://lnkd.in/geam9NPH #CircularEconomy #SustainableFashion #repairrevolution

It is National Recycling Week, always the second week of November, and this year from November 11 to 17. We support schemes that increase consumer awareness about sustainability and how we can all contribute to a brighter future but before recycling there are some many other 'R's', including repairing!!! We here are Sisko are all about repairing, with FabPatch, because keeping textiles (and of course other resources) in use for longer, before they are recycled at their extended end of life, is so much better for the environment. What are you doing for National Recycling Week? https://lnkd.in/dhBCr_7

In two weeks one of our founders, Megan, will be on the panel - How do Australians acquire, use and dispose of their clothing? Findings of a national survey - discussing all things repair, repairing and mending in the world of textiles. You can obtain complementary tickets from the site below, using the code - VIP24. Megan will be on the panel with Alice Payne - one of the authors of the study, along with Ninh Nguyen Peter Allen Nooshy Farid https://lnkd.in/gyEMG5Ua

We are thrilled to share that we are a proud supported of Seamless - Australia's pioneering clothing stewardship scheme. By joining this amazing initiative, we're joining forces with other responsible leaders across the industry to make clothing more sustainable. Together with all of the Seamless members and supporters, we are committed to reducing the 200,000 tonnes of textile waste that ends ups in landfill each year and achieving a circular clothing industry by 2030. Join us by celebrating this exciting new chapter for our organisation and for Australia. #seamless #sustainablefashion #circulareconomy #clothingcircularity

October 24th marks the International Day of Climate Action, a global initiative dedicated to raising awareness about the critical need to tackle climate change. It's a day when people around the world unite to promote environmental conservation, support sustainable practices, and advocate for impactful policies to protect our planet. Repairing textiles is one such action you can take. #repairrevolution #ClimateAction #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability #ClimateChange #EcoFriendly

Sophie, our Design Manager, attended this great networking event a couple of weeks ago. It is so important to meet and share with other like minded people in the circular economy. We can't wait for the next event Circuiti - bring it!

Tomorrow, Saturday October 19 in INTERNATIONAL REPAIR DAY! One of our favorite days of the year as it is a day to promote and celebrate the value of fixing. In our case textile repairing. To honor this day of action we are offering 25% OFF all stock, store wide for the whole 24 hours! Head to our store tomorrow to enjoy the discount and the feels from repairing! https://fabpatch.au/

This is exciting news! The report - Keeping clothes out of landfill: A landscape study of Australian consumer practices (published Oct 2 2024) - conducted by RMIT University and commissioned by the Kmart Group and the Queensland Government, is a study of 3,080 Australians explored how they acquired, used and disposed of their clothing. Here is the exciting data about REPAIR! About one in three consumers preferred to repair clothing themselves or take it to a professional repairer, particularly if they had paid a higher price or felt emotionally attached. Payne said Australians were open to repairing their clothes but often did not know how. “We need clothing education programs, focused on boosting Australians’ clothing repair skills and confidence,” she said. “This could be through supporting initiatives such as community repair cafes and embedding skills into school curriculums.” Thanks to the authors Alice Payne Mark Leenders Ninh Nguyen Simon Pervan Paige Street Carol Tan Xinru (Angie) Jiang for making our FabPatch day! https://lnkd.in/gxE_UxiK