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A fantastic project to promote an ecosystem of local textile manufacturing using local fibers.
Fibershed is a project to promote local fibers, natural dyes and local manufacturing of clothes. Anyone can start a fibershed project by bringing the local farmers, manufacturers and retailers together. A sampling of the clothes can be found here.
The components of the ecosystem in the image are as following:
1. Solar-powered wool mill
2. Dye garden, watered with greywater
3. Strategically grazed sheep
4. Industrial hemp cultivation
5. Nettle cultivation
6. Flax cultivation
7. Young cotton crops
8. Indigo cultivation
9. Small-scale cotton spinning equipment
10. Bast fiber mill
11. Green house and indigo dye station
12. Children visiting the field where their jeans are grown
13. Retail outlet selling fibershed clothes
14. Recycling mill
15. Rooftop gardens for food, fiber and dye
16. Rooftop garden and living wall of dye plants
17. Abandoned lot converted to a food, fiber and dye garden
18. Sewing pods
19. Knitting frame and weaving studios
The components of the ecosystem in the image are as following:
1. Solar-powered wool mill
2. Dye garden, watered with greywater
3. Strategically grazed sheep
4. Industrial hemp cultivation
5. Nettle cultivation
6. Flax cultivation
7. Young cotton crops
8. Indigo cultivation
9. Small-scale cotton spinning equipment
10. Bast fiber mill
11. Green house and indigo dye station
12. Children visiting the field where their jeans are grown
13. Retail outlet selling fibershed clothes
14. Recycling mill
15. Rooftop gardens for food, fiber and dye
16. Rooftop garden and living wall of dye plants
17. Abandoned lot converted to a food, fiber and dye garden
18. Sewing pods
19. Knitting frame and weaving studios
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