
RAGS TO RICHES
Learn from the pros how to grow your textile upcycling knowledge and skills so you can support the planet and your ideal lifestyle.
RAGS TO RICHES shines a bright light on leaders in textile upcycling. Learn from entrepreneurs, manufacturers, suppliers, authors and activists offering alternative options in textile consumption, options that support entrepreneurs and our environment. Myth-bust limitations with creative inspiration and gain the knowledge to propel your textile upcycling game to the next level.
Believe me, I get it.
That's why I created RAGS TO RICHES: Secrets of the Pro's. A collaboration
of carefully curated professionals sharing their savvy so that you can:

Grow a financially viable business expanding your impact
You don't have to work harder. Learn about how the right tools, content, and focused clarity can turn your struggle into a solid dependable income that supports you, your creativity, and the planet.

Be inspired by those who are doing it.
Learn what goes into a successful business right from the start. Dive into varying business models, tools for profitability, online presence and messaging techniques. Walk away with solid next steps to up-level your upcycling game.

Source your ideal upcycled materials.
Understand the thrift stream, connect with suppliers, consider collaborations, look beyond the thrift store for landfill disruption.

Get confident with your worth and the value of your makes
Bring a new level of confidence and clarity to your making process with an abundance and self-worth based mindset. Set yourself up for success with simple tools to reframe challenges and soar toward your ideal goals.

MEET YOUR MENTOR
Hi, I'm Crispina. I'm in the business of helping recycled textile artists become Achieve their goals.
I'm a recycled textile activist, industry professional, and entrepreneur who has dedicated my life to using sustainable materials and recycling textiles. I've been doing this work for more than 30 years...long before any even uttered the words, "up-cycling" or "eco."
My ultimate goal with RAGS TO RICHES is to reduce global textile waste and show others how to do it too. I've worked with some of the biggest names in textiles: Patagonia, Eileen Fisher, Timberland and Crate and Barrel and share everything I know with recycled textile artists so they can achieve their dreams. And save the world at the same time.
Psst! Wanna know something?
It is not even that hard to increase your knowledge and grow impact with textile upcycling... If you have the necessary tools, knowledge and mindset.
Rags to Riches: Secrets of the Pro's is here to show you just that - AND teach you how.

After completing RAGS TO RICHES you'll know...

Presenter: Nicole Snow - Darn Good Yarn
YOU ARE A PART OF OUR ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTION
Textile upcycling entrepreneurs, thinkers, authors and activists expand our knowledge of careful consumption. Your awareness of and support of alternatives to fast fashion build a movement... you're an environmental solutiontionary.

A DEPENDABLE METHOD FOR SOURCING GOODS/MATERIALS
Reliably source materials beyond the thrift-stream, Network with, and support upcycling brands that align with your values and aesthetic, Understand the power of your purchases.

Presenter: Kathleen Tesnakis - Ekologic
CREATIVE TEXTILE UPCYCLING IS A VIABLE, SUSTAINABLE way of life.
You'll hear from makers who have traveled diverse paths to arrive at their business sweet spot being financially sustainable and defining success on their own terms.
TANGIBLE NEXT STEPS TO UPLEVEL YOUR UPCYCLING
Listen and learn from the pros as they share specific expertise that will engage, inspire and help you know the importance (to you and the planet) of taking your textile upcycling up a notch.

Presenter: Elle Litiatco - ELLERALI
"Our sacred duty, as humans, is to bring our home planet into environmental balance with inventive wonder, nourishing our lives and community with creative potential."
-CRISPINA FFRENCH
VIRTUAL, INTERACTIVE, TEXTILE UPCYCLING SUM
RAGS TO RICHES
Why Upcycle Textiles?
Leading Authors, Activists, and Makers share why this work is important. Learn from those who have overcome hurdles, developed non-traditional business models and expanded their reach within the textile upcycling arena to foster rippling change while generating an income from what was once seen as a liability. You will walk away energized by entrepreneurs who have built businesses that serve their audience, lifestyle and our planet!
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RAGS TO RICHES WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE UPCYCLING
Be inspired by leaders in the textile upcycling arena. You will come away with tangible next steps to uplevel your upcycling. Entrepreneurs, rest assured that your textile upcycling business can support you, your audience, and our planet. Citizens, support businesses that align with your values addressing global textile waste. Together we are changing the world....
one t-shirt, pair of jeans or sweater at a time.