Slow Fashion Market

Last Saturday was Oxfam Day here in Brussels in one of those splendid buildings at Tour & Taxis. The theme of the day was fair fashion and on the program there were a Fashion Show, a Slow Fashion Market and a series of Do It Yourself Workshops.

We decided that we had to be there with Greener Wool. Tour & Taxis is just around the corner and there is no slower fashion than garments you’ve knit with your own hands using organic certified yarn, unless you spin the yarn yourself!

It was a bit of a rush to get everything together – including three shopping trips to get all the furniture and a timed tryout in our living room to check if I could build the stand all by myself within the given timeslot!

In the end it all went smoothly thanks to the many friends that spontaneously proposed to help!

Getting some of the new yarns in the shop by Saturday was quite a challenge … We succeeded in having the super soft Bio-Logic cotton from Plassard. The slightly felted Bio Merinos from Schoppel – which didn’t arrive sooner than Friday evening! – had a lot of success. The new Mergelland got stuck in transport and arrived only yesterday – we’ll tell more about it next week.

The Meet up and knit or crochet! Brussels group exceptionally moved their knitting meet up from the city centre to Tour & Taxis, there were the friends from La Filière Laine and La laine des coccinelles and at a different organic fair in the next part of the building we met the people from Heid de Frenay with their fantastic yoga mats from locally produced felt. Quite a few people dropped by at the stand. There’s so much to tell about organic wool, GOTS certificates and local yarn that I didn’t even have the time to visit the other stands at the Slow Fashion Market! Then there were the people that wanted to know more about the double-knit scarf I’m making. It seems that I’ll have to organize double knit classes soon!