Grateful Threads creates clothing pieces that are sustainable and artistic with minimal impact to the environment in their creation and production. Affordable and conscionable. EcoFashion for Green Living.
Hi, my name is Leanna and I am a native of beautiful Miami Beach where colors come to life under an amazingly brilliant tropical sky. My youth was spent in or around the water, my toes in the sand, head in the clouds. I have always been a creative and resourceful soul with a great love of nature and all its creatures. I am an explorer with a terrible case of wanderlust that is always calling to me to discover something new, and since I cannot just pick up and disappear whenever the notion takes me, it is here, in my creativity that I often change my environment, my surroundings. It is the feeling that I strive to convey in my designs.
My creative background has taken me through a variety of mediums. I studied interior architecture in college and in the years to follow worked in mosaics, faux painting, collage, photography and inbetween it all clothing design. It has been my one constant, the creative buzz that I always come back to.
My desire to create clothing came from a need to have original and outrageous clothing. I shopped mostly in thrift stores and created interesting pieces from those that others had disgarded. What fun! I even fashioned a pants and halter set from a pair of lace curtains once (I know what you're thinking). Oh, and I am completely self taught.
I have to say that I love what I do. I am inspired daily by my surroundings and in the final meditation of my daily yoga practice I am usually joyously creating new clothing designs.
Namaste ~
Grateful Threads was born in 2000 from a desire to create original designs from eco friendly and recycled materials. I converted a large closet in my house into a small studio fully equipped with a sewing machine, dress form and piles of fabric.
Now more than 10 years later my business has evolved. The closet has been extended, I've added a couple more machines and another dress form. I have better camera equipment and have learned more about photography and creating videos.
The biggest change that Grateful Threads has gone through is the design and materials of the clothing. While production has always been eco friendly, even more so now. I oversee all aspects of clothing production from fabric selection, which is all organic, to the dying which I do myself with plant derivative low impact dyes. All designs are hand cut and all seams serged to create a high quality, lasting garment.
I also have a reclaimed clothing and accessories shop here ~
http://www.thenewbohemian.etsy.com
Thank you for your intrest and as always for supporting independent artists.
To create multi functional clothing pieces with minimal impact on the environment.
Certified organic hemp & reclaimed textiles.
