VISIT OUR TEXTILES HUB
OUR TEXTILES REUSE AND SKILLS HUB
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN CENTRE
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Unit 42-44, The Piazza Centre, Huddersfield, HD1 2RS
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays: 10.30am - 3.30pm
​As part of Temporary Contemporary - a Kirklees Council initiative repurposing empty retail units for use by creative charities and social enterprises - we are very fortunate to have occupied three units on the Piazza Shopping Centre between 2022 - 2025.
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Here we have established our Textiles Hub, which provides a space to welcome and support the textiles community of Kirklees and beyond. ​
The Hub is an important aspect to our work as a CIC as it allows us to focus on local solutions to solve textile waste problems. We are the first fabric and haberdashery Scrap Store on the High Street in the UK! Everything we sell has been donated to us by the textiles community locally. From the manufacturing industry, to small designer-makers, crafters and many more, the shop is a treasure trove of textile finds, enabling a circular economy to flourish.​​​
The space includes:
- Textiles Scrap Store haberdashery
- Workshop space
- Community library of textile books
- Sewing machines you can hire by the hour.
In 2024, we became part of the Creative Piazza collective - a group of all the creative organisations that remain on the Piazza to campaign for a permanent space for the community we've all built after the shopping centre is demolished to make space for the Our Cultural Heart regeneration.
Why are we a 'Scrap Store'?
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The global fashion and textile industry is not operating within sustainable planetary boundaries. Every day the industry creates excessive air, water and land pollution, exploits workers and generates waste. Business-as-usual cannot continue. We believe that many of the solutions lie within local communities. Working collectively we can improve how textile materials flow through users, reposition textiles as valuable materials to increase their longevity, and realise the importance of everyday creativity to bring communities together.
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How can you support us?
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In addition to buying and donating to the shop, there are many other ways to support us. You can book onto a workshop, join us for one of our monthly Stitch Socials, use the workshop space for your own textile group or volunteer with us.