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WE ARE A BIOREGIONAL TEXTILE COMMUNITY  GROWING HOPE AND RESILIENCE THROUGH
LOCAL FIBER, LOCAL COLOR, AND LOCAL LABOR.

 
 
 

We are creating a collaborative network of regenerative fiber farmers,
processors, and designers from the Rust Belt Region to explore the possibilities
of working with the resources in our fibershed, in particular sheeps wool,
alpaca, flax, and plant dyes, whose work demonstrates a commitment to creating a
‘soil to soil’ fashion and textile system. We also educate consumers about the
life-giving need and creative possibilities for a circular textile system.

Textiles come from the Soil and can go back to the Soil

A truly circular fashion system creates textiles from the soil that return
-after decades of loving care- to the soil. This system functions in a way that
emphasizes regional assets and supports and protects our human health,
happiness, and our environment. Starting with the soil as our focus (bottom of
the graphic), we focus on building relationships with farmers, processors,
designers and makers, sellers and consumers. And guess what- every person (if
you wear clothing!) falls somewhere in this circular system!

Rust Belt Fibershed consists of 250 mile radius outside of Cleveland, Ohio
including parts of Michigan, southern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and Western New
York. It is our goal to build a community that collaboratively supports locally
grown textiles in a way that decrease consumption of fast fashion and works to
restore soil health. We aspire to connect everyone in all parts of our local
fiber system: farmers, fiber processors–from large mills to home spinners,
weavers, dyers and fiber artists–to designers, shop owners, fiber enthusiasts,
and all consumers of textiles. Through this project, we hope to increase
education of stewardship of our land and resources, foster friendship and
creativity, and facilitate conversations that address the challenges of a
localized fiber supply chain.

 


THE RUST BELT FIBERSHED OFTEN USES UNITED STATES POLITICAL BOUNDARIES TO
DESCRIBE WHERE WE OPERATE FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, BUT THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO
DESCRIBE OUR PLACE:

Those who’ve stewarded this land:

We are operating on occupied indigenous territories of the Erie, Osage,
Hopewell, Myaamia, Shawandasse, Kikaapoi, Odawa, Sauk, Anishinabewaki,
Attiwondaeronk, Haundenosaunee, Wenrohronon, Susquehannock, Massawomeck ,
Calicuas, Moneton, Yuchi, Adena, Cherokee- East, Kiikaapoi, Peoria, and
Meskwahiki-asa-hina people.

It is our desire to create relationships with our living land and steward it
with the care and attention of those who came before us.

Our Watershed

We operate in both the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River Basin watersheds.
This means that much of the micro-plastics and dyes that shed from our textiles
during the washing process accumulate in these bodies of water. The top-soil
run-off, manure, herbicides, and more from fiber farms that use conventional
farming practices run into these watersheds.

We operate within a huge variety of microclimates in our area: The microclimates
of the valleys and coastlines and plains and woods. There is so much potential
to not only care for this diversity but also to mimic this biodiversity as a
model for the intersections of farming and fashion, of textiles and culture, of
economies and ecologies.

Dye Garden Crash Course (Online)

Saturday, March 4, 2023 2pm-3:30pm
via Zoom


Class Fee: $15 benefitting Rust Belt Fibershed 

Looking to grow some natural color in your own garden? This class will help you
look forward to spring and getting your hands in the dirt by covering types of
dye plants suited to the Rust Belt region, how to start them from seed, and
suggestions on how to raise them, even in containers and other small spaces. A
great introduction to gardening, this class will give you the confidence to
start growing, even if you've doubted having a "green thumb." Following class,
participants will receive an 40+ page pdf resource that covers considerations
for starting and maintaining a dye garden and index of plants. 

Instructor: Amber Rose Ostaszewski 

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ARE WE DRINKING OUR YOGA PANTS?

It would be hard to find one of us who doesn't have an article (or most
articles) of clothing made from acrylic, polyester, nylon, and other
plastic-based fibers. Those yoga pants? The fleece sweatshirt? Your sweaters?
Most of our clothing has it. But every time we wash them, the teeniest particles
of plastic go through the washing machine and into our water system, often not
caught by the filters in the treatment. In fact, most glasses of water in
America contain some level of micro-plastics. Read more about microfiber
pollution here and here. Or to see how you can take a few minutes out of your
day to help, check out our closet survey.

 
 
 
 

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