Thanks to Jill for sharing these articles with the guild. These might make fiber enthusiasts uncomfortable. But they are serious issues. It’s better to know than not know, right?
Something To Ponder
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Thanks to Jill for sharing these articles with the guild. These might make fiber enthusiasts uncomfortable. But they are serious issues. It’s better to know than not know, right?
Norma wrote about the cashmere issue awhile back… and I did read that article, and the first one also… and I know these are serious issues.
…. ‘who’ dry cleans their wool? I suppose there are lots of folks out there, muggles?, who don’t know to soak and block dry (which doesn’t take that much water, and mostly it’s the individual’s energy being used,eh?) but dry cleaning just grosses me out.
A few years ago, I read an article in an embroidery magazine, where the attitude seemed to be that pollution was nothing to do with embroiderers, who were totally benign.
In the same magazine were adverts for 100 different embroidery threads, at a very low price, from India, (where the chemical dyes used were polluting the local rivers).
The connection didn’t seem to occur to any of the letter writers to the magazine.