Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This is the second article of three with weaver Eloise Sentito of These Isles.
In Part 1 (lowimpact.org/career-change-making-a-living-from-weaving/) she gave advice for anyone considering a career as a weaver; and part 3 will be about how craft production and mutual credit are a match made in heaven.
Transcript of interview, with links to organisations mentioned in the video: lowimpact.org/is-craft-production-sustainable
We’re interviewing key players in the new economy, to:
a) bring their work to a wider audience
b) try to find ways to co-ordinate their efforts
c) stimulate debate
d) help to build the new economy.
Here’s what we mean by new economy - lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/new-economy
Introduction to craft production: lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/craft
Introduction to weaving: lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/weaving
Lowimpact.org: lowimpact.org
These Isles: weavingtheseisles.wordpress.com
Hhighlights
1. Fast fashion is one of the worst polluting industries in the world.
2. A fibreshed is a textile catchment area - ideally where the fibres were farmed, where it was milled and spun, woven, the clothes were made and sold - all within the same catchment area. That's a fibreshed.
3. We have a massively centralised system, which is almost a global dictatorship. We're nearly there - a few people controlling everything and the rest of us unable to get out of it.
This is the second article of three with weaver Eloise Sentito of These Isles.
In Part 1 (lowimpact.org/career-change-making-a-living-from-weaving/) she gave advice for anyone considering a career as a weaver; and part 3 will be about how craft production and mutual credit are a match made in heaven.
Transcript of interview, with links to organisations mentioned in the video: lowimpact.org/is-craft-production-sustainable
We’re interviewing key players in the new economy, to:
a) bring their work to a wider audience
b) try to find ways to co-ordinate their efforts
c) stimulate debate
d) help to build the new economy.
Here’s what we mean by new economy - lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/new-economy
Introduction to craft production: lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/craft
Introduction to weaving: lowimpact.org/lowimpact-topic/weaving
Lowimpact.org: lowimpact.org
These Isles: weavingtheseisles.wordpress.com
Hhighlights
1. Fast fashion is one of the worst polluting industries in the world.
2. A fibreshed is a textile catchment area - ideally where the fibres were farmed, where it was milled and spun, woven, the clothes were made and sold - all within the same catchment area. That's a fibreshed.
3. We have a massively centralised system, which is almost a global dictatorship. We're nearly there - a few people controlling everything and the rest of us unable to get out of it.
