Just about finished reading Fibershed by Rebecca Burgess and Courtney White - full review coming later - and whew. This book packs a lot into its 289 pages.
It doesn’t shy away from the bleak history of mass textile production, but it doesn’t leave you drowning in despair either. In fact it paints a bright, hopeful picture of how community-based groups can - and already are - building resilient, regenerative local systems that bring textile production back into our local regions, without all the toxic gunk that mass manufacturers depend on. (Seriously. There’s an “Ingredients to Watch” section in the appendices. By the end of it I was all “Great! Everything is an endocrine disruptor!")
<img src=“https://garaksapprentice.micro.blog/uploads/2024/fibreshed-book.webp" width=“420” height=“600” alt=“The cover of a book titled “Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy”. It shows a white woman standing facing the camera. She is holding a large pile of folded, handwoven textiles. The bottom half of her face is obscured by the textiles. She is wearing handknit, brown leggings and a grey, handknit cardigan.">
