Textile Printing and Upcycling Techniques Workshop with Zalda in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal

Esmeralda Dias aka. ZALDA is a fashion designer and illustrator from Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. She was one of the 5 finalists from an eco-design national competition while she was finishing her degree in Fashion Design at ESAD in 2021. Shortly after, Esmeralda decided to try her luck and go solo at Portugal Fashion Week. She ended up in the finale of the competition for new emerging fashion designers with her own brand ZALDA.

During her ✨Textile Printing and Upcycling Techniques Workshop✨ you learn how to reuse textiles and recover garments. Her workshop speaks both to complete beginners and already more experienced people in the textile upcycling area.

The goal of the workshop is to experiment and understand the beauty of textile waste within ZALDA's trashy aesthetic side and how to apply it on your own clothing transformations. You will leave the workshop with a new piece of clothing, a few experiment pieces and a new skill set for a future use outside the artist’s studio.

Esmeralda gives you some new creative ideas and tools to get you started in the sustainable fashion thinking. Her credo is and has always been: "Money does not have to be a barrier in fashion.“

Length of workshop: 4 hours
Number of people: 1-3 people
Location: At the artist's studio in Santa Maria da Feira (30min drive from Porto).
Price per person: € 64; includes your own self-made t-shirt; coffee, tea, the artist's favorite orange or chocolate cake.
Minimum advance booking time: 7 days
Next workshops: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays 9h-13h and 14h-18h

Watch our subcultalk with ZALDA here.