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Recycling Fabric Waste into Functional Interior Decoration Pieces

Adelaide Oboshie Sai 1,* and Sarah A. Quansah, Richard Acquaye 1
1
Department of Textile Design and Technology, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana
Publihed in: Current Research in Public Health (Volume 2, Issue 1, 2022)
Page(s): 15-32
DOI: 10.31586/jad.2022.253
Received
May 25, 2022
Revised
June 24, 2022
Accepted
July 02, 2022
Published
July 04, 2022
Keywords
Recycling; Fashion Design; Textiles; Interior Decoration; Fabric Waste
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Sai, A. O. , Quansah, S. A. , & Acquaye, R. (2022). Recycling Fabric Waste into Functional Interior Decoration Pieces. Current Research in Public Health, 2(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.31586/jad.2022.253
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Sai, A. O. ; Quansah, S. A. ; Acquaye, R. Recycling Fabric Waste into Functional Interior Decoration Pieces. Current Research in Public Health 2022 2(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.31586/jad.2022.253
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Sai, Adelaide Oboshie, Sarah A. Quansah, and Richard Acquaye. 2022. "Recycling Fabric Waste into Functional Interior Decoration Pieces". Current Research in Public Health 2, no. 1: 15-32. https://doi.org/10.31586/jad.2022.253
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Sai AO, Quansah SA, Acquaye R. Recycling Fabric Waste into Functional Interior Decoration Pieces. Current Research in Public Health. 2022; 2(1):15-32. https://doi.org/10.31586/jad.2022.253 
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