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We talked to Live Textiles today, about natural and organic fabrics. Wow we can still love fabric, just get the right type.
Listen in to Karen Dingmon of Live Textiles on Home Fashions U Blog Talk Radio today. Here is the link
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Home-Fashions-U/2009/10/16/Live-Textiles--Eco-Fabric-for-OUR-Life
Janet Bealer Rodie, Managing Editor
H
emp has a long history of textile uses. Because of its inherent rot and abrasion
resistance and high tensile strength, the bast fiber long was used in products such as sails and
ropes. Its cultivation requires no pesticides, nor irrigation except in drought conditions, and it
will grow in a range of geographical areas and climates. In recent years, as interest heightened in
organically grown fibers and eco-friendly production processes, hemp found a niche market in
organic apparel.
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Fire & Light hand-poured colored glass tableware has a way of drawing the eye, enchanting the viewer with the unique play of light that filters through its rich spectrum of colors and textures. This enchantment is not simply a quality of the glass or its pigmentation, but of the very way in which it is made, the very hands that pour and press it, the beliefs and spirit that drive the people who craft the product, and the community from which it originates.
Fire & Light Originals has a noteworthy heritage, formed in 1995 as a partnership between the Arcata Community Recycling Center in Humboldt County, California, and a group of local investors who wanted to develop an innovative plan for using crushed, recycled glass. Our founders decided to turn their recycled glass into a raw material, manufacturing distinctive products for sale in and out of the immediate area. After careful consideration, the group decided upon a distinctive line of colored glass dinnerware which would be created by melting crushed glass in furnaces, adding pigment, and pressing the molten glass into bowls, plates, and glasses. In December, 1995, the first glass products were poured and pressed from the Fire & Light furnaces, and the world became a bit more luminous, slightly more colorful.
John and Natali McClurg purchased the company in 1999. Together with a team of 20 people, Fire & Light Originals is handcrafting the beautiful giftware and colored glass dinnerware that is now shipped to specialty stores and galleries throughout the country. The enlightened practices that gave rise to the company continue to inform everything we do. Fire & Light still strives to find new ways to incorporate recycling into our production process, like using recycled beer kegs from local microbreweries as vats to cool our ladles.
Fire & Light colored glassware is a product whose history is a kind of future, where age-old craftsmanship meets innovative manufacturing, utilizing post consumer glass as a resource. But it's the beauty that will get you, the twinkle of light on the surface of a watery blue bowl, and the knowledge that we get as much happiness out of making the colored glass bowl as you will from having it on your table.
We are excited to announce the new How To DVD's by Precision Drapery. The training DVD comes as a set, it includes the DVD and Printed instructions for each project.
This is what the WCAA is saying.
Arizona is picking up, a lot of us are very busy and some are slow. There are many ways to create new business. As a Sr Sales Manager for over 20 years I encouraged others to sell a product, get leads and make money. Just a few tips to make it through the tough times.
1. Let everyone with in a 2 mile radius know that you have a Interior Business or sewing business?
2. Join at least 3-5 good networking groups.
3. Set up a table top display in a trade show or even a fall craft show to show off your skills and products.
4. Share a booth with others in your industry at a Home Show, Woman's Expo, PTA School Festival, Etc.
5. Offer a referral bonus to your past customers for new business leads.
6. Send out a monthly mailing to your clients, stay in their face!
If you actively try just one if these ideas you will have new clients. Our industry has been very spoiled with a abundance of business for years, who would have thought we could every run out of clients.
After reading this please share about how you found your first new client this week!
Have a great Fall Sewing Season.
