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I’d like to welcome Ian and the Hand Weaving Company to our eco community. They are based in Mid Wales, United Kingdom and manufacture hand weaving equipment which can be used for recycling plastic bags, old fabrics and yarns, making useful everyday objects. Their products include weaving sticks, peg looms, corkwork bobbins and lucets provide everything the hand weaver could possibly need. All their products are hand crafted in their own workshops.

Many schools and youth groups find our simple weaving equipment a wonderful antidote to the technology which surrounds us today. Our peg looms, weaving sticks and corkwork bobbins are used with great enthusiasm by students of all ages. Our experience tells us that those coping with learning difficulties also benefit considerably.

Research proves that your pulse rate slows and your blood pressure lowers when you weave or knit. This is why many therapy groups, day centres and other similar organisations are frequently amazed and delighted at how rewarding students find their newly acquired skill. A sense of achievement is attained in a very short space of time aiding speedy recovery.

Peg loom weaving is a great tool when it comes to recycling. Use oddments of wool, strips of fabric, unspun fleece, plastic bags – almost anything. It’s only the bounds of your imagination that will stop you!

So now that you know more about them, visit their website to check out their custom hand crafted product lines to utilize in your home, help yourself while helping the planet, a beautiful symbiosis!

Susan with Eco Artistic Products is our latest eco friend. Eco Artistic has many pieces of beautiful unique hand crafted jewelry and gifts.  I particularly like their primitive wood crafts. Here is what Susan has to say about Eco Artistic’s vision

Eco Artistic Products wishes to share with you a superb collection of exclusive handmade, eco-friendly, natural and colorful artwork, which stands out in not only in terms of quality and warmth, but uniqueness (no single piece is alike) and utmost beauty in craftsmanship. It is considered nature’s art.

Our “Unique handcrafted Jewelry” is one of the largest, natural wholesale jewelry collection (necklaces, bracelets, earrings) you will ever find in the online retail world, not only in variety, but also in combination of materials, showing their superior colors, grain, carving (soft rectangles, squares, ovals) and sanding styles, all satin smooth finished. The impact of our artisans’ famous art work has resulted in exposing their “wood bowls” in galleries and many private collectors around the world

Each item’s background goes beyond its skillfully assembled artwork, factoring the environment in their work. When searching for this natural art, it is frequently only accessible by driving long hours along beautiful tropical scenery and exotic wood forests. Our artists have embraced the idea of sustainable development to create original exotic wood pieces from only found fallen logs on farms or beaches or from plantation raised trees, as they are saving their heritage and respecting nature and protecting their ecological richness. This leads to promote flourishing communities and a more sustainable environment.

I love Susan’s commitment to natural art coming from of our Planet’s most majestic forests. Visit Eco Artistic Products and browse their beautiful eco handcrafted artwork.

I’d like to welcome Theresa with five ACCESSORIES to our eco community. They have a unique approach that mirrors our own by fully supporting the countries where their bags and other accessories are manufactured. Here’s what Theresa has to say about their approach to sustainable business.

Designer handbags

five ACCESSORIES is a socially conscious company featuring handbags and accessories sourced through fair trade practices in FIVE countries.  Our mission is to help generate income for individuals in developing areas, donate a substantial portion of the revenues to worthy causes in those areas, and to foster the use of sustainable materials in fashion. $5.00 from every handbag sale is given back to the country it originated in.

In addition to our work with artisans in Bali, India, Honduras, and Cambodia, five ACCESSORIES is also partnering with several local organizations.  In April 2009, we launched an accessory line titled ‘Off The Street’, which is sourced and produced by vendors of StreetWise, a Chicago based social enterprise designed to help elevate severely impoverished men and women out of poverty.  By employing individuals that have formerly been homeless and using littered material “off the streets” of Chicago, we are offering a unique eco-friendly accessory line consisting of bracelets, buttons, belts, pins and picture frames constructed and adorned with items such as transit cards, bottle caps, ticket stubs from sporting events and other urban refuse.  As with all of our accessory sales, 15% of gross income will be donated back to the local organization, StreetWise.