The Scrap Exchange, 2050 Chapel Hill Rd, Durham, has been promoting creativity, environmental awareness, and community through reuse for 25 years.
They collect materials from hundreds of individuals, businesses, industries, and municipal sources and distribute those materials through our retail store in Durham, North Carolina as well as through workshops, parties, and outreach events across the Southeast.
If you’ve got a project on your mind, you should definitely visit the Scrap Exchange’s store and shop for paper, vintage items, craft supplies, sewing supplies, records, containers and much more.
The Scrap Exchange also offers a host of classes where you can learn new crafty skills. Prices generally range from $10 to $40. Find all the upcoming classes and events on their website calendar or Facebook page.
Some of skills you can learn at The Scrap Exchange:
- Linocut
- Screen printing
- Art journaling
- Quilting
- Embroidery
- Much more
Free Make ‘n’ Take
The Scrap Exchange announced on Facebook that they’re offering free time in the Make ‘n’ Take Room at the Reuse Center through February 23, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can use materials that you find in the Make ‘n’ Take Room, or purchase materials. No glue, paint, or food, however.
There are all kinds of materials. Find them in the blue barrels or on the shelves. Create something with scissors, tape and staplers.
Discount for Durham Public Schools Employees
Durham Public Schools Employees and Staff get 20% everything at the reuse center and thrift store every day, through the end of February. This deal was announced on Facebook.
Carol Prokop says
We have an assortment of materials we would like to donate, if you can use them, not new, but usable:
Pipe cleaners
Markers and pens
Fuseable beads
Crayons
Colored pencils
Felt butterfly shapes
etc.
Do you want them? When? Where?
Carol Prokop says
I just found my answers – nice website!