Nimble Patch gives new life to broken children's jeans that cannot be sold second hand. With reinforcing material on the knees and leg ends with a closure function, the jeans can be extended and grow with the child.
Nimble Patch for more durable kids' jeans
Consumption of clothing has increased significantly in recent decades and the production of new clothes is one of our most environmentally and climate damaging industries. A simple way to reduce the environmental impact is to repair existing garments.
Nimble Patch gives new life to broken children's jeans that cannot be sold second hand. With reinforcing material on the knees and leg ends with a closure function, the jeans can be extended and grow with the child. The jeans last longer and can be worn by more people. The end product is a pair of children's pants that lasts a long time - both in terms of quality and from a sustainability perspective.
Nimble Patch repairs and processes jeans in collaboration with Yallatrappan/Yalla Mellerud, a women's cooperative that creates jobs for foreign-born women and makes use of the considerable expertise available. Wargön Innovation supplies Nimble Patch with broken children's jeans that cannot be sold second hand.
In addition to the collaboration, Wargön Innovation and Nimble Patch are working together in the Re-design project, which creates both ecological, economic and social sustainability. In it, the collaboration between Yalla Mellerud and Nimble Patch is being developed with the aim of building a business model for how the parties can scale up redesign and other sewing services.
Our goal is not to turn over as many pants as possible - but to turn over each pair of pants as many times as possible.
Maria Borbos on the Nimble Patch
The facts
Project coordinator: Coompanion Fyrbodal
Project participants: Nimble Patch, Coompanion Fyrbodal, Wargön Innovation, Yalla Mellerud.
Project duration: Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
Budget: 2 194 964 SEK
Financier: Vinnova
Project manager for Wargön Innovation: Caroline Düberg Martinsson
More about the Nimble Patch:
Awarded: Sustainable fashion collaboration awarded Most Useful Business
Habit: How the redesign company will scale up
Nomination: Nominated for Encouragement for Action 2021 in the Closing the Loop category
Habit: Nimble Patch revitalizes worn out children's jeans
Sydsvenskan: Children's jeans with holes on the knees get new life
100 circular examples of the Haga Initiative: Halved climate impact with doubled lifespan
