The proposed project positions itself within the field of museum, materialculture and heritage studies but at the same time it shifts the attention to the history offashion and fashion industry while drawing on local community and work force. Theinterdisciplinary nature of the idea links together the debate on sustainability andreuse of heritage with the social history of fabrics, retail shops and cloth makers andopens up possibilities for more transparency in the process of cloth making and themanagement of raw materials.First, I look at the discourse of sustainability and link it with heritage and the fashionindustry. Then, I turn to the particular and examine a) the repurposing of theEtmektzoglou silk deadstock produced at the Etmektzoglou silk mill in Volos duringthe 20th century b) the research idea revolving around the art of sewing and the reuseof fabrics and clothes from homes in urban Athens, during 1920-1980.