Scrap Squad is a cross-industry effort by apparel, costume, and textile artists and businesses in the greater Chicagoland. Our mission is to touch on the different communities who use textiles and create options for a systemic shift in evaluating waste by finding ways to sustainably reuse, rehome, and recycle fabric and textile waste.

Scrap Squad is made up of the efforts of the following artists and organizations:

Conscious Costume
Instead of feverish shopping, we hope you are continuing a celebration of gratitude today. We are eternally grateful for the grassroots community supporting the work of making every costume in harmony with people and planet. Thanks to you, we’
I am FED UP with all the plastic and the ads for CRAP this time of year. I cringe walking by aisles of single use Christmas decorations that will be broken and in the trash by January 2nd. My goal is to make sure you have the tools you need to creat
Conscious Community Virtual Meet-Up Monday 12/16 8:30 Eastern/5:30 Pacific It’s obvious that global leadership is failing to address the intersecting crises of the climate, environmental and labor exploitation. Next month we’ll be gather
We need YOUR HELP sorting costumes to get them ready for reuse, join us MONDAY NOV. 18 3:00-6:00 at 2021 W. Fulton K-111, The 3rd Monday of the month is our volunteer day so drop by any time between 3:00-6:00 PM to meet other sustainably minded cost
Deadstock is NOT a perfect solution to making more sustainable costumes. From incentivizing overproduction to reinforcing opaque textile supply chains, deadstock fabrics are filled with potential problems. While you are using deadstock fabrics in you
🔗to all are available for our valued Patrons! Y’all make this work possible. Together, we can raise the dead 🧟‍♀️ stock and give it new life in our costumes! This list is US based because a vast majority of our followers are located in
👀Looking for easy ways to be more sustainable in your costume design? 💀 Consider Deadstock Fabrics! There may be fewer fabric options, but a little creativity goes a long way. Plus we’re about to drop a post listing lots of places to look f
THANK YOU for coming out and swapping to make a greener theatre industry and Halloween for Chicago! We’re still tallying all the numbers but we had over 200 people and approximately 2,000 lbs of textiles swapped this weekend. For the first ti