Vintage suitcases

Jood Gob proudly presents her collection of vintage suitcases and vintage briefcases! Size is fully customizable to our customers’ needs. Furthermore, our customers have options of the briefcase lid or the puffy travel lids. Please view our portfolio below. Please email keching@aquilafashions.com.sg to customize your vintage suitcase or vintage briefcase. Advertisements

Antique Downtown Abbey doorbells

Made a downtown abbey doorbell modelled after the antique doorbells made in the past. And it is electricity operated instead of hand pushed. It sounds better than digital doorbell as it is the attached solid brass doorbell, salvaged from somewhere. Here’s a shot from the top. You can see the circuit box, recycled from discarded […]

Table legs for excess kitchen countertop slabs

Project repurpose kitchen countertop slabs. The folks at Blended Concept turn these slabs, which are cut out from the countertop itself to open up holes for the sink and hob, into coffee table, side table and pantry table. They can be marble, granite, quartz, solid surface etc and you already paid for them, why let […]

Discarded quartz repurposed into coasters and paperweights

An example of a small block of recycled industrial waste. We have repurposed it into a neat square paperweight! These quartz scraps were part of massive slabs that are laid over kitchen cabinets as counter tops. Waste is generated when holes need to be cut out in the quartz countertops to make way for the […]

Lecturer uses Google Earth Engine to teach climate change

With permission from the lecturer, this is an excerpt taken directly from his blog: “The time-lapse imagery generated clearly showed the effect of climate change on Lake Urmia. I showed this video in an environmental resource workshop, and the participants’ face lit up. All of them were eager to try out this new tool, to […]

Sustainable fashion products; eliminate dyeing process

If the world’s fashion products go without edge dye, the amount of chemicals used would be drastically reduced. That is our partner Aquila’s strategy to ensure its business is environmentally friendly right now, at the immediate, and not a distant vision that leaves its timeline to be desired. As seen in the following photos, Aquila […]

Industrial waste for sale: leather scraps

Among the many types of industrial waste produced is leather scraps. We partner with Broadway Leather Co. to put these scraps to good use. For example, a leather hobbyist can make a pair of watch straps from a small piece of leather approximately 1 square feet. Above in the photo is the remaining edge from […]