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Weaving
… and especially for the lower environmental impact of producing useful items sustainably, right here at home, just as you want and need them.
Free online course
Here’s our free online course on all aspects of weaving. The tutor is Janet Renouf-Miller of Create With Fibre.
Specialist(s)
Thanks to Eloise Sentito of These Isles, Janet Renouf-Miller of Create with Fibre and Jane Meredith of Plant Dyed Wool for information, and Eloise for main image.
The specialist(s) below will respond to queries on this topic. Please comment in the box at the bottom of the page.
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Low-impact clothes
… Smulders-Cohen of Greater London Fibreshed for information.
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The Green Cloth Collective is a network of textile and other makers concerned with a deep green economics for the common good. We believe that an empowered populace is one that knows how to make, and make a living. We weave our own close-knit but open, online community for maker support, trade and exchange. Eloïse Sentito of These Isles will field your comments for Green Cloth members’ responses.
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Craft production, prices and mutual credit: weaving
This is the third and final part of an interview with weaver and mutual credit enthusiast Eloise Sentito of These Isles, in which we talk about the prices of craft produce, and how mutual credit can help. Part 1 contained advice for anyone considering a career as a weaver, and part 2 was about the sustainability of craft production.
Let’s talk about price then. That’s the big stumbling block. I interviewed a potter recently and it was exactly the same for him. I think the prices that we call expensive are actually the correct prices. If you see …
Is craft production sustainable?
At Lowimpact.org we’re interested in helping to bring production back to communities, and so we’re talking with craftspeople, smallholders, natural builders, renewables installers and small business owners in our range of topics. I’ll be asking them about their jobs, and for advice for people who might be interested in doing similar things.
This is the second article of three with weaver Eloise Sentito.
Part 1 contained advice for anyone considering a career as a weaver, and part 3 will be about how craft production and mutual credit are a match made in heaven.
So let’s …
Career change? Making a living from weaving
… article)opinions on the sustainability of weaving and craft production (Part 2)ideas about how craft production and mutual credit are a match made in heaven (Part 3)
Hello Eloise
Hi Dave
Could you give us your full name and the name of your business / website?
My name is Eloise Sentito and my business is These Isles.
I liked your website because you’re producing useful things, rather than just ornamental things. they’re very beautiful, but they’re for using, not just looking at.
Thank you. I’m at a crossroads with my business. I have to scale it …
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room"
With the end of 2019 drawing near, nomadic handweaver Eloïse Sentito reflects on a year of significant change, living on the edge while spinning, dyeing and weaving her way from Brittany to Devon.
As I opted out of tenanthood and employeeship and moved my weaving business into a motorhome to take to the road on a shoestring in 2015, a dear family friend, who knows me very well, sent me the postcard pictured below.
Credit: These Isles
Powerful, isn’t it? And tensely ambivalent? On the one hand a proud, wild, free, low impact, low consumption life of resilience on …
Revisioning postcapitalism: 10 questions for Paul Mason’s ‘clear bright future’
Eloïse Sentito of These Isles pens an open letter to Paul Mason, in which she poses 10 questions arising from his book ‘Postcapitalism: a Guide to our Future’, that she hopes will be addressed in his new book ‘Clear Bright Future’.
Dear Paul,
I really enjoyed your erudite, challenging, intricate analysis of the modern history of capitalism. I was deeply disappointed though with your conclusions, which I felt to be overly masculine and susceptible to the lure of the hyper-expansionist.
Info tech and social media are indeed exciting for both the economic reasons you describe to do with undoing …
Of watermelons and apples: climate breakdown, growth, trade, state and money (an open letter to George Monbiot)
… and production than we Westerners in the global 1% are currently role-modelling. This must involve fewer, well-produced goods in a mended market.
As for services, some of the core ones (money creation, health, education) certainly suffer under existing market pressures, and seemingly they too sorely need either a mended market or increased state provision – a state enlarged by land tax, for a start.
Many strands to interweave here. I look forward to your future thoughts on the nexus of the red, the green, the currency and the market.
With thanks and kind regards,
Eloïse Sentito
www.theseisles.co
How could we build a viable alternative to the current, bank-controlled money system? Interview with Matthew Slater of the Credit Commons Collective
… are booked on a monday night, you can offer tables to members of your network for trade credits, and you can utilise resources that otherwise wouldn’t have been used. That’s the main selling point for them, I think.
We blogged an article earlier in the year by Eloise Sentito of the Green Cloth Collective. They find it difficult, because they make textiles, by spinning, weaving and dyeing organic materials produced in the UK, like flax, wool and hemp. But because of the labour-intensive nature of the work, and because that work isn’t done in exploitative sweatshops,