made some little extra tags for all my market items .... its a little preachy but i figure i have something worthwhile to say ...
"THANKYOU for choosing to own or gift this HANDMADE item ...
... it seems that in our Post-Industrial world as humans we have 'sold out' to the mindset that we 'need' to have it 'all'
& that it must come at the lowest price possible ...
the true COST of this 'need' is usually out of sight ... often ending with the people behind the factory turnstiles ... so in light of these thoughts THANKYOU kindly for supporting the concept of HANDMADE ... made with care by one human who'd like to encourage all to seek out the handmade, the up-cycled, the ethically made, the kind to earth & the unique objects of our world ...
... not so that you have 'more' but so that you love what you have with an ethical & environmental mindset !!!"
I'm currently having ethical issues with where the cotton that makes the quilting fabrics I love comes from? how it is grown? use of pesticides? how the humans that help grow it are treated? & paid? & at what cost? how the cotton is transported? what kind of 'fabric miles' has it truly done & at what consequence? what other environmental impact this has & what kind of non-fair trade is evident? what kind of dyes & inks are used? how do they affect the environment? how do they affect the people using them? what kind of impact does this production cost have on water supplies? who & what issues are involved in the whole process? crikey .... we know more about eggs than any of this??
me thinks our chickens are more fairly treated than most likely the humans in this chain
... i still value of course our part in the world of handcrafts & art ...
that very need to create is innate & simply human at its roots
what do you think or know??
