In the spirit of regular blogging we posted our first blog about 2 months ago and have done nothing since. I think our problem was that we wanted to avoid posting blogs about the day to day minutiae of our work, unfortunately that left us with nothing to write about. Anyway my new Resolutio
n is to Remember to post blogs and bang on about anything.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle the mantra of all keen environmentalists, or in our case when you decide to consolidate all the leather scraps you have been saving for the previous three years you realise quite how much you have collected. This in turn encourages you to seriously focus on Reducing the amount of space the scraps are occupying ideally by Reusing them and finding a new product to make from them. Preferably something small which only uses scraps and doesn't create further waste. Hence the recent inclusion of circular screen printed pin badges, shaped brooches and key fobs into the Stabo repertoire.
So be assured that whenever you buy one of these products you are doing something great for the environment albeit our environment as every badge sold gives us a little bit more room in our workshop.
The pictures show Ed using our press to cut out the badges at the end of the process. As you can see from the image to the right
'One of our dinosaurs is missing' where Ed got a bit over enthusiastic
and threw the finished product in with the waste, our intention to use up rather than create waste hasn't entirely succeeded but we've made a start.
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We've been making our Tent Trousers for a while. Just before Christmas we found some old tarpaulins made out of an interesting linen/flax type fabric. So made a pair of 'Tent Trousers' out of tarpauling. Here is Ed making a sample pair.
