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Shamanaya

Recycled and handcrafted Textile, Jewelry and Fashion design. We make Handcrafted Textile, Jewelry and Fashion design and we Love recycling!

We give workshops in dying and paint techniques, embroidery and other textile techniques and we teach vodden voodoo (rag voodoo)...

About Shamanaya

"My name is Caroline, I am 25 years old, and I come from a society in which we started to destroy vital parts of our global ecosystem. Rainforests were being cut down, toxics were being dumped into our oceans, animals were being mistreated, fellow

human beings were being enslaved by debt and the air in the cities became unfit to breathe and the water unfit to drink. Today in 2013, we live in a society where most of us can see that it is time for us to change, but we find it hard to stop. We have been so used to thinking and acting in short term resolutions for our daily lives, that we have a hard time changing. In some ways the system we have created has overrun us. We don’t really know how to stop it, so some of us are just hoping for it to collapse, while others are still comfortable in the short term and keep oiling the machines. In stead of hoping for just another revolution, I’m hoping for an evolution. An opening of what was rolled up. And to find my own role in that process, I am focussing my energy on textiles. The first recorded language spoken by human beings was an expression of art such as painting and textile. These arts were practiced by human beings before the written word. This signifies an important step in human evolution and when read and studied carefully, they might reveal their ancient knowledge. The knowledge that in our current western society we have either forgotten or surpressed, or both. I love to research, experience and share knowledge that is embedded in the tangible networks or structures formed by indigenous people of the earth. And I do that through my work. Shamanaya means for me, to play with Shamanism in my own way: to breathe new life into used textiles, make prints and designs with intention, and to share knowledge in how to recycle and upcycle. The point being that we already have so much (too much) stuff, and that we need to start using that stuff in different ways and make the transition from a consumer based society to a more self sufficient society. This project is an act of opening up new ways of living together on this planet on which we are all connected as one. In order to survive as a species we need to take the next step in evolution, and this is my way of moving my part in our collective foot forward in order to take this leap."

15/12/2023

16/04/2016

HI Yall, This page is no longer active: The curtain is closed ;). For my recent upcycling and uplifting activitys check out my other pages Textile hunters and De Wensmachine

28/04/2015

Happy memories of last summer, Loved making this bohemian wedding dress for awesome poet, friend and greenpeace coworker Anne Broeksma

26/04/2015

Makes me sad to see they are slashing perfectly wearable clothes... As a fellow recycler i am often baffled by the good quality stuff people throw away... I'd love to live in a world where only broken stuff gets recycled and good stuff stayed used and people will learn to understand that throwing something"away" is not possible because there is no such thing as "away"

http://aeon.co/video/society/unravel-how-india-recasts-the-clothes-the-west-throws-away/

‘Maybe the water is too expensive to wash them’: Indian women recycling clothes from the West wonder about the lives of those who wore them.

29/01/2015

I have been really busy under another name... Did you check out the upcycled stockings and hammocks line I created as Textile hunters? Like and follow that page if you want to see more of that and an artproject that will start SOON! As Shamanaya I still produce fashion for the Utrechtse De Kledingbibliotheek, I made some really nice summer clothes that will go there somewhere in the coming weeks! Soon the pictures will follow

Order at http://www.textilehunters.com/ #!hunters/c99l

To Hunters its only natural to design green products, but what makes them so captivating? Upcycled textiles are vibrant and vivid with character, aliveness and joy! Everything that we could possibly wish for already exists. And textiles with memories have a noticeable spirit and vitality!
All products are made by hand with 100% upcycled material.

The stockings and tops are intricately looped and braided from material that comes from solely upcycled pantyhose. They are p***y, glamorous, playful, sexy and sultry. The technique comes straight from the dreamworld and doesn't have a name yet. They are one size and able to stretch a lot.

Wear them like fishnet stockings or - when you compliment them with a pair of brightly coloured stockings underneath - as leggings. The colours are always different but carefully chosen by Caroline Lindo.

They come in three different colour schemes from which you can choose:

Bright candy
earth tones
greyscale.

Photography by Mette Sophie

Models:
La Nina
Genevieve Murphy
Milou van de Burgt

Make up artist: Maria Aggelakopoulou

special thanks to Suzanne Remmerswaal Penning

09/12/2014

vodden voodoo!!

round and round

05/12/2014

Wij zijn ook van de partij en super trots om deel te mogen uitmaken van dit geweldige initiatief! Welcome to the future! eigendom, schmeigendom! Hoera voor De Kledingbibliotheek!!

12/09/2014

Shamanaya in De Kledingbibliotheek

17/08/2014

Shamanaya en De Kledingbibliotheek

Waarom ik ben begonnen met recyclen is om de onbenutte restproducten zo veel mogelijk te gebruiken. Grondstoffen die er toch al zijn, en die we dus niet hoeven te delven of oogsten. Op die manier probeer ik als een alchemist verwaarloosde lapjes stof met elkaar te combineren en om te vormen tot de hoogste vorm die ik het kan geven. Onze ontwerpen zijn nu onder de geweldige zorg van de kledingbibliotheek... Dat is goed nieuws! Want zodra de kledingbibliotheek een locatie heeft kan iedereen toegang krijgen tot deze kunstwerkjes! We houden jullie op de hoogte, en blijven recyclen!

Workshops doe ik nu alleen nog maar op verzoek, ik hoor het graag als je meer wilt weten en leren over recyclen!

04/08/2014

Good vibes inside of the Bamboo dome from De Wensmachine

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Plantage Doklaan 8
Amsterdam
1018CM

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