♻️ 🧵 ✂︎ 🚯 How We Zero 🌎 ❤️ 🐑 🪡
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1. In 1998, seams from recycled sweaters →
For the first ten years, all fabric used for potholders, trivets and holiday ornaments came from recycled, post consumer, no longer “fashionable”, sweaters.
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→ became loops on potholders!
Wrist and waistband ribbing, and other colorful scrap also make fun garlands sometimes found today in a Studio Drop.
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2. Leftover wool sewing threads →
from hand sewing embroidered balls, angels & pincushions create lots of colorful, short lengths of woolly threads.
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→ are used to sew on hangtags!
Colorful short threads extend the message of quality on our products. No plastic T-guns for our multiples!
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3. Leather coaster scrap →
We source recycled, remnant and closeout hides. The scrap from cutting circles is carefully sorted by size, length, and hue.
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→ becomes loops for western potholders!
Bits too small for our reuse are set aside and when we have several pounds, are sold to jewelers or doll makers for $1 + cost of shipping.
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4. Wool scrap created from all of it →
includes any form of wool waste, from jacquard double weave fabrics, woolen flannel, recycled sweaters, yarns, threads, fibers, and sheep fleece.
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→ forms the core of balls, stones, etc.
Reclaiming the waste produced in our studio is Craft in service to Art. Hands, heart, mind, and machine engage a multi-step dance for the Beauty of What Remains.
These are 100% WOOL!
Thin, functional and beautiful, each one feels great in your hands. Wool is naturally insulating and naturally non-combustible.
Measures 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).
Choose a single potholder, or a pair. Each is randomly cut and exact pattern cuts are not guaranteed.
Single potholders come with a hang tag that describes fabric content, care instructions, and Reclaimed Wool’s zero waste story on the back. Pairs of potholders are hand sewn together with one hang tag.
Each potholder is 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).
Thin, functional and beautiful, each one feels great in your hands. Wool is naturally insulating and naturally non-combustible.
Choose a single potholder, or a pair. Whatever your choice, a hangtag is included. Our zero waste story is on the back!
Each is randomly cut and exact pattern cuts are not guaranteed.
Each measures 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).
Thin, functional and beautiful, each one feels great in your hands. Wool is naturally insulating and naturally non-combustible.
Choose a single potholder, or a pair. Whatever your choice, a hangtag is included. Our zero waste story is on the back!
Each is randomly cut and exact pattern cuts are not guaranteed.
Each measures 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).
Thin, functional and beautiful, each one feels great in your hands. Wool is naturally insulating and naturally non-combustible.
Choose a single potholder, or a pair. Whatever your choice, a hangtag is included. Our zero waste story is on the back!
Each is randomly cut and exact pattern cuts are not guaranteed.
Each measures 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).
Thin, functional and beautiful, each one feels great in your hands. Wool is naturally insulating and naturally non-combustible.
Choose a single potholder, or a pair. Whatever your choice, a hangtag is included. Our zero waste story is on the back!
Each one is randomly cut and exact pattern cuts are not guaranteed.
Measures 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).
Thin, functional and beautiful, each one feels great in your hands. Wool is naturally insulating and naturally non-combustible.
Choose a single potholder, or a pair. Whatever your choice, a hangtag is included. Our zero waste story is on the back!
Each one is randomly cut and exact pattern cuts are not guaranteed.
Measures 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).
Choose a single potholder, or a pair. Each is randomly cut and exact pattern cuts are not guaranteed.
Single potholders come with a hang tag that describes fabric content, care instructions, and Reclaimed Wool’s zero waste story on the back. Pairs of potholders are hand sewn together with one hang tag.
Each potholder is 6.5 inches square (16.5 cm).