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PULL TAB (POP TOP) CROCHET

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WEARABLE ART

 



Crochet with pop tops is a very popular craft in my home country, Brazil. I think that most pull tab crochet products you may see online are "pasteurized" and mass-produced. They strive for perfection, while I do it for the pure enjoyment of creating something with my own two hands (wish I had a third one...). I think of it as wearable art and minor imperfections are part of the charm.   

Upcycled crochet items using aluminum pull tabs from soda and beer cans 

See what it's all about

All the items I make are crocheted or knit using recycled, post-consumer, clean, aluminum soda can pull tabs, or pop tops. Check what pull tab crochet is all about.

I have started using "plarn", a "yarn" made from recycled plastic bags cut into strips. The results are very interesting

Let me know if you like it...Leave a blurb in my Guestbook...

Pull Tab Crochet Pics 

You can see them all in my Etsy shop......if I have not sold them yet!

My OOAK creations:

Pull Tab and Hemp Crochet Purse and Wallet by Pop Top Lady

Pull Tab and Hemp Crochet Purse and Wallet

Pretty in Pink Detail by Pop Top Lady

Pretty in Pink - sold 1.19.2008

Purse with Glass Bead Tassel by Pop Top Lady

Purse with Glass Bead Tassel

Pull Tab Crochet Floral Purse by Pop Top Lady

Floral purse - sold

Backpack by Pop Top Lady

Backpack - sold

Fan-TAB-ulous Pop Top Crochet Skirt by Pop Top Lady

Working on a special order for larger size

Burgundy and Silver Pull Tab Purse by Pop Top Lady

Burgundy and Silver - sold in 2007

I Love Brazil by Pop Top Lady

I Love Brazil - sold 01.02.2008

Yellow Backpack by Pop Top Lady

Yellow Backpack

Glass Bead and Pull Tab Crochet Necklace by Pop Top Lady

Glass Bead Necklace

Glass Bead and Pull Tab Crochet Necklace by Pop Top Lady

Glass Bead Necklace

I Dream in Blue Pull Tab Purse by Pop Top Lady

I Dream in Blue

Colors of the Earth Tote by Pop Top Lady

Colors of the Earth - sold

Black Round Tab Purse by Pop Top Lady

Black Beauty - sold

Lollypop by Pop Top Lady

Lollypop

Plastic-bag Yarn and Pull Tab Tote Picture 2 by Pop Top Lady

Plarn (New York TImes bags) and Pull Tab Purse

Kristi's Hobo by Pop Top Lady

Kristi's Hobo - sold 6.9.2008

Purple Butterfly by Pop Top Lady

Purple Butterfly - sold 6.11.2008

Purple Rainbow Closeup by Pop Top Lady

A closeup of a tab flower pattern.

Pull tab Clutch Detail by Pop Top Lady

A detail of the little tab flowers

Inside of "Superlarge" Red Tote by Pop Top Lady

Beautiful Colorful Jersey

Makeup Bag by Pop Top Lady

Oh so soft, made with pull tabs and Yarn Bee chenille.

Pull Tab crochet on the web 

Let's praise all the beautiful work out there

My Etsy Pull Tab Shop with pull tab handbags, clothing and accessories for sale

Pop Top Purse with Tutorial

Novica with pull tab handbags and accessories made by Neide Ambrosio, from Brazil, for purchase

Escama Studios

Pull Tab Bracelet tutorial

Craft Magazine Pull Tab Crochet

Flower Pot Holder Tutorial from Angela Cassilha's Blog (in Portuguese but the pictures are good enough to figure it out)

I Took The Handmade Pledge! BuyHandmade.org

Creations on Video 

Brazilian Artisan Neide Ambrosio talks about her pull tab creations. English subtitles. Her items are for sale at the Novica store online (link above).

Novica Artisan Neide Ambrosio at Brazilian TV Show

Novica artisan Neide Ambrosio interviewed by Hebe Camargo and the top model Luiza Brunet at a popular TV talk show. Neide talks about her bags made with soda pop-tops. Her work called the attention of Californian kids that wrote her many letters appraizing Neide's nice eco-friendly products. (English Subtitles)

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"Desfile de roupas recicladas, feitas de Sucata" 

Fashion Show - Clothes made from trash

Eliane Cordeiro shows her outfits made with recycled pull tabs and other found items on Eliana's talk show, from Brasil. It's in Portuguese, but the images are worth it...

Desfile de roupas recicladas, feitas de Sucata

O Casal Jairo e Margarete apresentaram na TV Record no Programa da Eliana seus artesanatos feitos com lacres de latinhas.

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Escama Studio 

Promotional Video

Escama (Fish Scale) Studio works with a Brazilian Co-op of Artisans Called "Panteras do Lacre" (loosely, Pull Tab Jaguars).

Escama Studio

Escama Studio combines sustainable design with fair trade principles to create a new breed of alluring fashion accessories. Based in San Francisco, Escama Studio works directly with two Brazilian craft cooperatives—Cia do Lacre and As Panteras do Lacre—to design and produce these sleek, modern pieces using traditional crochet techniques and recycled aluminum pull-tabs.

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Other Interesting Things Using Beer and Soda Cans 

There's more to them than the pull tabs...

The Orange Show Center for Visionary Arts in Houston is finally done renovating the beer can house

Visit the Red Bull Art of Can page. It's in Houston this year and I have been to it. AWESOME! It may not give you wings, but it sure gives your imagination some!!!!

Visit my friend Urbanwoodswalker on Flickr. She has picture sets of awesome stuff she makes with the cans.

Tell me what you think... 

a_willow

These are wonderful! Never knew it could be done like that! Great job! Welcome to Reuse it all! group!

Posted September 16, 2008

EelKat

Those are beautiful! I don't think I've ever seen crochet done like this before.

Posted September 08, 2008

Fortunate

Hi Ya...
I lensrolled this lens. It's perfect as a link with my Jazz it Up!
Thank you so much..wonderful fun things to do.

Fortunate

Posted September 07, 2008

PopTopLady

OK, I fixed the videos (added couple more, too). I don't know why that one disappeared from YouTube...it was soooo beautiful!

Posted August 13, 2008

spirituality

Looks good. The first video no longer works btw.

Posted August 13, 2008

 
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Teacher, Crafter, Wife, Mother (not necessarily in that order).

I was born and raised in the south of Brazil. Moved to Canada in 1993, to the US in 1999 and have since lived in 3 states (Massachusetts, Louisiana and Texas). I am also a survivor of 2 hurricanes now (Katrina and Ike)!

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