Reuse for Arts & Crafts — Local services in Berkeley

This is a great place to buy art supplies and crafting supplies at a reduced price. Shopping second hand is good for the environment! The owner is very nice and has original artwork displayed that was made from recycled materials. It's inspiring and illustrates what you can do with stuff that might otherwise be on its way to the trash. There is a huge variety of stuff. You might find oddball stuff like a box of bottle caps or drink tabs or empty yogurt crockery, junk jewelry, mosaic supplies, pigments, sewing machines, books. I try to look here first before going to a regular art supply store or online.

Types of things that I've purchased: Paints (acrylic, oli, and watercolor), colored pencils, art pencils, erasers, pens, paper, card stock & envelopes, shipping envelopes, fabric, sewing supplies, index cards and more.

You can also donate usable items. I have started a habit of making a small bag of Donate-able items I am not going to use, and taking them in when...

I used to own a crafting business and had a lot of material I wanted to donate to a place I knew it would get used. After a quick Google search. I found this location and a few others. This location was the only one that said it would be open and we take crafting materials without too much hassle. Unfortunately, I forgot the nice woman who helped me, but being that she was the only person in the store and was also assisting myself and another man, she's someone I could not forget. I gave her about half of a Honda car full of things. Everything was placed up front and then I left. A pretty quick process.

I'll definitely probably go back just to look through the store as the front of the store was extremely craft heavy. There's a huge flower wall project, I'm not even sure what to call it, but it's...

This place is small but CRAMMED with all kinds of used and donated craft materials, including sewing. It's right on san pablo on the west side of the street. Set your phone timer so you don't get a ticket because you were engrossed in looking through everything. Take your extra craft materials here and donate them. Bring your half finished, never going to be finished projects. The art supplies you or a friend or family member no longer use. Sewing and craft books you no longer want. Also donate gift bags or other decent bags that can be used. The owner uses them to put your purchases in so she is not buying new bags. My purchases came home in a used wine bottle gift bag. Unfortunately, I don't think this place is wheelchair accessible due to narrow aisles, but a smaller walker...