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Made in Nova Scotia – Made in Canada Blog 

Can you hear the buzz?! Interest is increasing in “locally” made clothing and textiles. Some of us even harbour the dream of ‘seed to sew’ or ‘sow to sew’ as NSCADU phrased the process for their recent conference. Any way you put it, there is an undeniable attraction to the idea of planting seeds which are literally transformed into textiles, or working with fleece from a flock of sheep up the road. 

It isn’t rocket science – we are able to do this too.

This Blog is a platform for you to share your “locally” made clothing stories with a broader community and to participate as we make and document history. 

Kelly Grant and I met at a local café recently to discuss some local dress history (is there any other topic to discuss?) We were in so deep that two hours breezed by before the call of nature forced us to surface.  Kelly blithely suggested that she could write a piece if I set up the blog, and she had suggestions of other people who could write about their local clothing stories. People’s dreams do come true, and the clothes are being made. 

The problem is that we don’t all know about all the projects and experiences that are happening right here in our own backyard. There are several flax and linen projects in progress (one might even be secret), which may or may not have some degree of overlap. Certainly, they could all benefit from a sharing of the collected wisdom about growing and processing flax that has been gathered together and preserved by a few determined individuals.

There are many steps in the definition of “local” and we want to hear about your participation.

Please send your story to me:  sedoucette@gmail.com. This blog will become an archive of our Made in Nova Scotia – Made in Canada experiences as we reclaim our capacity to make our own clothing and textiles. Hope to hear from you soon...otherwise you may receive a pointed invitation: Kelly told me that all I had to do is to give you a poke! You know who you are.