Weaving with mail satchels : The Remnant Bag

'The Remnant Bag'
‘The Remnant Bag’

The ‘fabric’ for this bag was woven with strips of plastic for mail satchels.

It was woven on the same warp as the first bag that I made using plastic wrappers for Plastic Free July, last year.  That bag has been carrying home my shopping each week as is holding up well.  It’s quirkiness still gets a few questions at the check-out and often a few surprised looks when I point out the different product wrappers in the weave.

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Plastic-free July: Weaving with soft-plastic wrappers

I wouldn’t call this shopping bag a thing of beauty, but it makes a statement in it’s own way.

Plastic-free July

This month, I’ve signed up to Plastic Free July, aimed at reducing single-use plastics.

    • Most of the simple things I’m already doing so my challenge is to:
  • reduce usage of tetra-pacs: We’d use 5/week for soy and lactose free milk.
  • make beeswax wraps as an alternative to cling wrap
  • make shopping bags from soft plastic packaging waste

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