Palava

This week we’re re-releasing the next chapter of our Wool Blanket Project. A project that began by asking a simple question: what do we already have, and how can we use it better?

Made using reclaimed wool blankets alongside our own saved remnants, each piece comes from materials that might otherwise have been overlooked. Nothing here started with a blank slate. It started with what was already in the pantry.

This February, we have been making the most of what is in our pantry. Learning to make the delicious English dish, “bubble and squeak” If you don’t know already, this is a dish made from leftovers. It takes all the things you don’t know what to do with and puts them together to make one exquisite, balanced meal.

That's what we are doing this February.

We want to take you to the cutting room floor, the place where waste begins. 

We want to talk about waste. 

Why it happens and why we don’t consider a single scrap to be waste.

We want to try to answer some questions.

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