By supporting farming practices for long-term good, MATE the Label and its partners in the California Cotton & Climate Coalition are advancing a planet-friendly fabrics model for fashion brands.
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Redefining Fashion’s Future: Rebecca Burgess Envisions Tomorrow’s Textile Landscape
A conversation on cultivating sustainability and cultural reverence in the textile industry with the Executive Director of Fibershed.
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Instagram Roundup: 3 Posts on Microplastics & Clothing
In 2023, Fibershed posted a popular series on Instagram focused on microplastics and clothing. Check out the full series here, and follow us on Instagram for more posts like these.
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A Soil-to-Soil Journey with the Northeastern Fibersheds
This past fall, I had the opportunity to visit Fibersheds in the Northeastern region of the United States. From touring knitting and wool mills, to visiting pastoral landscapes and wool washing facilities, I road tripped from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Rhinebeck, New York, where I met up with ten fibersheds from our Affiliate Network at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival. Below is the story of this trip and the story of fibersheds; of the people working within their community rebuilding soil-to-soil textile systems and why that matters.
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Borrowed from the Soil: A Farm-to-Closet Design Exhibition
Fibershed’s ‘Borrowed from the Soil’ Design Exhibition explored a future vision where the way we produce and use one of our most basic human necessities — clothing — can support the longevity and health of our local ecosystems and communities.
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Cultivating Change: Reformation’s New Climate Beneficial™️ Cotton Line
Reformation is partnering with the California Cotton & Climate Coalition to purchase and manufacture garments using Climate Beneficial™️ Cotton, highlighting the brand’s commitment to sustainable fashion.
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Textile and Fiber Policy 101: Influential New Legislation You Should Be Paying Attention To
Many regulatory systems shape our local fibersheds. Local, state, national (even international) policies and laws play an important role in influencing healthy and vibrant textile, fashion, and fiber systems. We put together a quick guide to help you understand some of the most influential new policies under consideration and what they could mean for transforming our material culture.
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Community Husbandry at Rancho Las Palmas
Recently, dozens of community members – the stewards of Rancho Las Palmas, employees of the Santa Cruz County Resource Conservation District (RCDSCC), and Fibershed-affiliated contract graziers and sheep shearers – came together to care for the 100 or so sheep of Rancho Las Palmas.
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Weaving Lineage in Diaspora
Sari Monroy Solís is a Mayan Kaqchikel and Xicana weaver, teacher, dyer, herbalist-in-training, and Fibershed’s Learning Center Workshop Coordinator, with a decades-long career as an immigration attorney. Sari revitalizes ancestral fiber arts in California and internationally – a journey and practice that started with a family loom and renewing her own connections to craft in her homelands of Guatemala and Mexico.
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Revitalizing Ecosystems and Bottom Lines: Innovative Approaches Aim to Sustain Prescribed Grazing Operations
Targeted prescribed grazing can provide enormous ecological and social value. Fibershed and partners are developing and investing in innovative approaches to economically support the longevity of this practice.
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