Following the first edition of the Fabrics of Autonomy project (2016), a second edition was developed in 2017 with the aim of promoting technical, personal, social and entrepreneurial skills. The project was aimed at unemployed women and had the following objectives:

• Diagnosis of the local fabric in the field of sewing and haute couture;
• Developing the skills mentioned above and promoting empowerment;
• Passing on the know-how of the art of darning, ironing and embroidery, which favoured the protection and revival of traditional crafts at risk of disappearing and the training of a new generation capable of continuing a cultural legacy;
• The creation of a social fashion brand (Re-love), which valued the clothing and accessories produced in the Modelling Course and the Embroiderers’ Workshop and made it possible to market them;
• The fashion show involving graduates and the garments they produced.

The AAA’s sewing workshop was used to continue the Embroiderers’ Workshop and to produce garments for the social brand created. The workshop ran free of charge for unemployed people and had a participation fee for other interested parties. Sewing and pattern-making workshops were held, the proceeds of which went towards paying the pattern-maker/trainer who accompanied the production and marketing of the garments under the brand. The reuse and transformation of used items (clothes/textiles that are donated to the AAA) was a focus throughout the course and the fashion show with the garments produced by the trainees was a way of raising awareness in the community and publicising the project.