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The potential for building a textile commons | Dave Darby - August 17, 2025

I think commons and local markets are fine together. ideally – workers own the means of production, because they're self-employed or in a co-op. Communities own the land, housing, water, energy, care, leisure and transport infrastructure. The state and corporations own nothing. local producers can...

The potential for building a textile commons | Eloise Sentito - August 14, 2025

Reflecting on what I wrote last night: as is so easy to do, in my cottage-industry context, I found myself going down the co-operative route again in what I wrote, where workers own the means of production, which is maybe paradigmatically different from where householders have access to a resource (...

The potential for building a textile commons | Eloise Sentito - August 13, 2025

Thanks for the shout, Dave. I'm pondering your essential question about what a textile commons might look like. It's a hard one, perhaps because we are primarily forced to survive in a capitalist logic, whereas commoning belongs in a framework of subsistence logic, maybe? I tend to think that t...

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