Connecting with Textiles - In Conversation with Sharon Kallis [EartHand Gleaners]

We Are Carbon

Join me for a conversation with Sharon Kallis who brings us thought provoking insights from her work exploring the place of textiles within our lives. Inspiring us to reconnect with ourselves, community and heal the world around us through rediscovering the materials which we wrap around ourselves and our homes.

Sharon is the founding director of EartHand Gleaners Society

Alongside her artistic and practical endeavours transforming fibres into clothing, Sharon's work also includes community projects that layer up the opportunities for people to reconnect with one another, with plants and with place.

Combined with a personal challenge of 'growing her own clothing' this all comes through to bring us a story of re-finding what it means to be human; exploring a slower, more purposeful pace of life as an outcome of acting more sustainably in the creation of the stuff we use and depend upon.

For a further breakdown of this discussion see the timestamps below.

See the video version of this episode here: https://www.wearecarbon.earth/sustainable-textiles-sharon-kallis/

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:07:00 - Sharon's work integrating textiles within community gardens

00:16:40 - Connectivity, well being & complexity

00:28:08 - Challenges of community land access

00:34:26 - Invasive plant species for textile use

00:37:52 - Modern disconnection & unsustainable textiles

00:48:08 - Growing your own clothes! Sharon's journey

01:02:27 - The steps we can all take towards more sustainable textiles