Tag: Slow Clothing
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Accepting and using animal hides, bone and other parts is a keystone of ancestral life ways from all over the world. EartHand Gleaners Society is mainly ‘vegetarian’ in our materials, but as we move deeper into our relationship with the land, ancestral skills, and with First Nations, we recognize the importance of knowing more about working…
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Please join us at Trillium North on Sunday from 4.30-6.30 for our final celebration of the Urban Cloth Project, as well as our spring weaving projects that are complete! The site is looking good….
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We have two final free public celebration events for our 2014 fibre projects, come out to both and get a solid understanding of how cloth is made, and have a great time meeting fun people and doing something extraordinary! Sunday November 9th 1-3 pm Hastings Urban Farm as a part of the Urban Cloth Project…
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Terroir events will still get posted here, but keep an eye on this new site for the research details of the cloth processing discoveries. We have a new bed at Trillium North where we will grow flax for our Urban Cloth as well as working at MOP and at the Hastings Urban Farm.
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This Saturday finds the start up of work on site back at our flax field
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Here is a short 5 minute video that sums up a years worth of activities from our first year at Aberthau growing flax for linen and more…
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Happy to announce our first phase of funding for Terroir, our Urban Cloth was successful!… slated to begin in mid April 2014, we are still grantwriting for the rest of the project. So, Terroir; what does this mean? Terroir “a sense of place,” is the sum of the effects that local environment; geography, geology and…
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EartHand Gleaners’ first project was both a great success and a huge learning opportunity. The final step of processing the flax into linen for spinning really drove home two main points. 1.the vast difference in quality one can expect in the fibre depending on the soil where the crop was grown. Best case scenario, a…
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