Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags by Hanna Rose Shell

Shoddy: From Devil's Dust to the Renaissance of Rags

Hanna Rose Shell

272 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

informative slow-paced
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The history of modern-day old clothes recycling begins with a thing called shoddy. Starting in the early 1800s, shoddy was the name given to a new material made from reclaimed wool, and to one of the earliest forms of industrial recycling. Old ra...

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