HEMPEA is a finnish sustainable brand, creating eco-friendly home textiles from 100% hemp fabrics. This spring we collaborated to create some unique products with some of their pre-consumer scraps - cut-offs in the production process of their bedding and home textiles. Their high quality, ethically made hemp fabrics are too precious to waste, so we took all the small, odd shaped pieces and created a collection of Wasteless Wonders products with them. ‍

We all know that there is a textile waste problem. Most of the time the topic revolves around fast fashion and the disposal of clothes at the end of their life. But there is already a problem a few steps back in the process. Pre-consumer waste is all the waste materials that are created in the supply chain during manufacturing of a product. In this article, we will briefly explain how and why this happens.

This is the final installment in our three part series about getting into weaving. In this little guide we will show you how to remove your handwoven piece of fabric from the loom, how to secure the edges and how to prepare it for sewing.