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PROJECT THREADWAYS SYMPOSIUM: 2021
Project Threadways has been in the works for several years. In spring 2019, our team’s planning, learning, researching, and visioning came to life at the inaugural Project Threadways Symposium, held...
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FOR THE LOVE OF TOOLS: SCISSORS
Our series, For the Love of Tools, looks at the history, uses, and types of tools for design, sewing, and making. Next up in the series, we are highlighting scissors. This cutting tool has a long...
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THE FACTORY + ALABAMA CHANIN 21/52 | 2020
“Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt Celebrating the unofficial start of summer, Memorial Day brings...
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NEW COLLECTION: WATERCOLOR
“The creative process of painting has given us lots of inspiration this spring. Watercolor softens the edges and blurs our perception. A softening of this moment feels very appropriate to me—like a...
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BROOKS REITZ + JACK RUDY COCKTAIL CO.
We have long turned to Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. when making our custom cocktails at home and for our Friends of the Café dinner series at The Factory. Jack Rudy was founded by Brooks Reitz (husband to...
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HOPE (+ THE SHIRT PROJECT)
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” –Desmond Tutu In these unprecedented times, hope has become a pivotal emotion for all of us. There is so much wrapped up...
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LIVE WHO YOU ARE
“Consciously living life and making slower choices—whether it’s for food, clothing, or shelter—can change everything.” We look back at 20 years of Natalie creating a sustainable life and business in...
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THE FACTORY + ALABAMA CHANIN 23/52 | 2020
“But there is another South, the one that we know: a South that is full of people who do things that honor genuinely honorable traditions. Drinking. Cooking. Reading. Writing. Singing. Playing. Making...
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WE ARE HERE.
Like many of you, all of us at Alabama Chanin are deeply angry and gut-wrenchingly grieved about the unrest in our nation and the racism towards our brothers and sisters. However, this time is not...
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EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE, THE LEGACY MUSEUM, AND NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR PEACE...
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all...
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ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES
Activist and filmmaker Sarah Sophie Flicker and writer Alyssa Klein compiled this document in May 2020. They encourage everyone to circulate it on social media and with your friends, family, and...
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THE FOREST LOG: A DOCUMENT
In my memory, I’m sitting next to Renita Green and we are best of friends. We share giant SweeTarts, a favorite but rare treat we both loved, by breaking them in half—or quarters to share with our...
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THE FACTORY + ALABAMA CHANIN 24/52 | 2020
“This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for...
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CORE ESSENTIALS
At Alabama Chanin, we are in passionate pursuit to design, responsibly produce, and offer products and experiences that enrich life, community, and the planet. We value inclusivity in our team, our...
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RUTH CLEMENT BOND + THE TVA QUILTS
The fabric tells a story. In the careful stitches, the colors, the pieces, a narrative takes shape. The blue water, the bright sun overhead, the American flag. In the center, a black fist holds a red...
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INSPIRATION: PEACOCK
Ellsworth Kelly, Dark Blue Curve; Louise Bourgeois, Untitled from Ode à la Bièvre. 2007 a fabric illustrated book; Collection Whitney Museum of American Art, New York There is a certain kind of blue...
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THE FUTURE OF BLUPRINT: ONLINE LEARNING
Beginning in 2013, Natalie and The School of Making made a series of virtual sewing classes in partnership with Bluprint, an online platform that offers creative tutorials and videos. At the end of...
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FATHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE
“If there was ever a man Who was generous, gracious and good That was my dad.” – Leon Thomas Our team has put together a selection of in-stock and ready-to-ship gifts in time for Father’s Day....
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THE FACTORY + ALABAMA CHANIN 25/52 | 2020
“Harriet Tubman Mural” by Aaron Douglas, c. 1931, commissioned by Alfred K. Stern of Chicago for Bennett College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina “If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us,...
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PALM AND SKY
Palm-tree: single-legged giant,topping other trees,peering at the firmament —It longs to pierce the black cloud-ceilingand fly away, away,if only it had wings. The tree seems to express its wishin the...
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