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rebuilding resilient fiber systems

Making Clothing with a Local Pedigree

December 15, 2020January 8, 2016 by Jess Daniels

The question “if not now, when?” has pushed many toward a leap of faith. For Emily Cunetto, it simply pushed her across the Bay, from her San Francisco residence to a studio space on the Emeryville/Oakland border.

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Undying: the Life and Death of an Indigo Cloth

December 15, 2020October 2, 2015 by Elisabeth Dori Tunstall

The life history of indigo dyed things captures the life and death of social values, relationships, and structures in India and China.

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Pioneering Modern Natural Dyes

December 15, 2020September 1, 2015 by Jess Daniels

There’s a duality to natural dyeing that Kristine Vejar embraces: the naturalist and plant pigment explorer; the scientist and careful recipe creator.

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Classical Cotton Breeding

December 15, 2020August 26, 2015 by Rebecca Burgess

Enhancing nature’s time-tested processes or Engineering… the difference between this phrase and word is a clear line in the sand that divides many millennia of human efforts to breed plants and animals, and the contemporary field of genetic modification.

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Cooperatives and the Next Clothing Industry

December 15, 2020January 26, 2015 by Jess Daniels

Last October, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (the SELC) created an event to discuss the opportunities that our local clothing economy can create…

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A Whole New Cloth: Politics and the Fashion System

December 15, 2020January 7, 2014 by John Thackara

You probably need to be naked to read this paragraph with a clear conscience.

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