Rhetorical Factory

Specialties

Rhetorical Factory is clothing company on mission to recycle clothing, inspire questioning, and to be 100% good.

Mending Monday: Bring in broken clothing for simple fixes and pick your own price from $ 5 – 20 per piece.

Donations Accepted, Kids Welcome, Art Always.

We specialize in custom projects from recycled fabric and other unusual, earth-​friendly materials. We also sell accessories and art from talented people all over the world.

History

Established in 2010.

I started the factory to have a place to do creative work, at first not knowing exactly what would be made there. I cannot remember a time when my favorite thing wasn’t making something with my hands. I began to knit at age eight, when I was in fourth grade I created and sold holiday jewelry from oven-​bake clay. Ever since my interests have only expanded, including music and photography, and now textiles!

Only by questioning ourselves and the way we live can we ever see our mistakes and our successes. Questions shed light in a sometimes dark and ever changing world our only chance at progress is to ask why.

So for me, art is a big question mark, it looms before me containing all the mysteries of life, and I can do nothing but run towards it. I do not know what my medium will be from year to year or what dire straights my stubborn pursuit of expression will bring me to, but I am thankful for them and feel honored that I am here to receive the lessons.

Meet the Business Owner

Bethany A.

Business Owner

Growing up in Northern Idaho and Berlin, Germany, I have been fortunate to be exposed to plenty of different perspectives, time periods, and modes of expression. The experiences I had eventually allowed me to understand how my interest in art could be fused with every day life.

During my one semester in college, I read essays from many scholars, all of which impacted me. But when I read Paulo Friere’s explanation of systems of learning, things started making even more sense. The question mark had become the symbol I used for my work when I was still in high school, the word «rhetorical» a few years later, but it wasn’t until I walked out the double doors and into the fall sunshine in Wilmington, that I realized just how deeply those symbols related to my own philosophy of life.

Now the Rhetorical question mark reminds me to engage in the day with an attitude of wonder.