NATURAL MATERIALS

   In a world that has been so changed by its human inhabitants, it's easy to lose touch with our natural selves - to forget about food that looks and behaves like food, to lose the knowledge that a garden should carpeted with deep grasses and soil filled with worms and beetles, to remember lawns that don't need to be vacuumed and to lack the understanding that our clothes used to be made from materials that once grew and wandered.

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    Life has become too quick. Fast Food, Fast Fashion, disposable clothes that deteriorate very very slowly - clothes that may only be worn once or twice in their life but take hundreds of years to decompose. We have the fastest fashions made out of the longest lasting materials human beings have ever encountered.

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    But Wool is different. It is the most magical of materials because it once lived and protected an animal but can be harvested without hurting its owner. It is warming and cooling and protective and comforting and totally natural - and it composts.

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      This ability to exist and then safely disappear means that woollen clothes and shoes just do not last forever. And Weaver Bird wants you to see that as a good thing. Enjoy the limited temporality that comes with natural materials, enjoy the way they wear out when you have loved them too much, enjoy the fact that somewhere on a lonely island, windswept cliff or open wilderness, there is a sheep, lazily chewing grass and growing your next pair of slippers.

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