Sustainable dyes for sustainable fashion is only one side of the gardening coin. Growing and producing your own sustainable fibers…
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Sustainable Clothing: Growing Your Own Plant Fibers
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************In a world of increasing mass production, where nearly all raw material is shipped to be processed in other countries,…
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Sustainable Fashion: Buy Words, Marketing, and Reality
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************Once upon a time, and long, long ago, all fashion was sustainable. Now, the realm of sustainable fashion, and sustainable…
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Detecting and Defeating the Enemy of Wool: The Wool Moth
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************Some might think that the chief enemy of a spinner, knitter, dyer, or weaver, is the family members who keep…
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The Woad to a Sustainable Blue Part Seven: Using Woad Dyed Material
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************While woad is often associated with blue and indigo, those are not the only colors achievable from the woad plant….
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Fiber Christmas Gift Ideas: Felted Knitting
This post may contain affiliate links. If you click on a link and buy a product we may earn a commission. Thanks. ************With the holidays around the corner, and gift giving looming for those who practice it, thoughts often turn to handmade…
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