1. The Lockdown Quilt Project

    by Saeed Al-Rubeyi

    When I was a kid the local grannies set our school a task of making a 'community blanket'. They handed out a hexagon of fabric to every student and...
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  2. On Being Green (and The Cult of Sustainability)

    by Saeed Al-Rubeyi

    This is a long one, sorry. If you’re a TL;DR person, here’s the gist: Story mfg. Is not a 100% sustainable brand. No brand is. Lots of us are tryin...
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  3. Our clothes get old, bleed and might be smelly too.

    by Saeed Al-Rubeyi

    I know the title is a little bit much, but there’s something we’ve been wanting to talk about for a while.  We’re at a place now where a lot more p...
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  4. 2019 Health Check

    by Saeed Al-Rubeyi

    Hello friends! I wanted to write a little look-back at five years of Story mfg. but our birthday blew past us faster than I could get my brain in g...
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  5. Weaving Our Way Through The Greenwashing Landscape

    by Saeed Al-Rubeyi

    If you’ve been with us for a little while you’ll notice we’ve made a bit of an editorial shift in the kind of things we publish. While in the past ...
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  6. The Problem With Natural Indigo

    by Saeed Al-Rubeyi

    I’ve held off for some time writing a piece like this because I’m wary of coming across as targeting competitor brands - but it’s time to put this ...
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