Wool, organic cotton, waxed canvas, beeswax — and the synthetics we still choose on purpose.
A waxed canvas rain jacket and a so-called breathable membrane shell are two different answers to the same wet day. The membrane tries to seal the rain out and, sooner or later, seals your own sweat in. Waxed canvas is water-resistant rather than waterproof, breathes the whole time you wear it, and comes back to
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It was almost by accident when I first learned about the power of wool to not only increase vitality but to up the comfort level of winter. It was at a time (late 1990s) I was well aware the outdoor community was adopting synthetics as the new best thing to stay warm. I too had
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Who invented the sleeping bag? Nobody, and everybody who ever slept where it was cold. When were sleeping bags invented? Thousands of years before the first patent, in the Arctic, where the Inuit sleeping bag (what older books call an Eskimo sleeping bag) was a caribou hide sewn fur-side in. Ask when was the sleeping
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I Stand for Organic I stand for organic I stand strong against the toxic fumes winds blowing hot in my face like a dragon’s breath I stand for and with the trees and the smallest butterfly flitting from blossom to blossom I fight, letting my anger express keeping a heart that can love seeing people
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