Thoughts from the Loom

26 October 2022

Social Media & Personal Mental Health

Look Up – just for a moment – glance around you and what do you see? How often in a day do we actually look up? When did...

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26 October 2022

A Truly Social Rebellion, Just Do It!

We know that the struggle is real! When did REELS become more important than REAL life? When did that FOMO feeling arrive and take over our lives and...

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25 October 2022

The Climate Stripe Tartan Collection - Taking Action!

We Rebels at Prickly Thistle are always on the lookout for projects that change the world and when we came across this one we had to be involved. We...

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09 April 2022

No Wash Club: Meaningful things to do with that extra time!

Have you heard of our No Wash Club? Shhhhh…. We’re not supposed to be talking about it…. But heck WE ARE because it’s bloody important, and fascinating too...

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07 April 2022

Cost Per Wear: Our 3 top tips

When buying bread, we may think about how many sandwiches we can get out of a loaf. Same with a car, we’ll seriously consider the miles per gallon...

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05 April 2022

Clothes Over Fashion: What do these words really MEAN?

  'Fashion' is used as an umbrella term for anything clothing related, which isn’t good when we look at what it really means today. It’s a bureaucratic relationship...

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24 March 2022

Warrior Womxn: The Power of Language

Over the last few months we’ve been evolving to avoid spreading too thin and make the best difference we can as a purposeful company. We’ve asked ourselves who...

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15 March 2022

#Remember Series: The Importance of Slowing Down

We’ve recently been posting the #Remember series on social media – which is a digital time travel of sorts, to the early times of Prickly. This reflection on...

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11 March 2022

Shite Stereotypes: Sustainable living is for ALL

There should be no such thing as a sustainability stereotype, even stereotypes in general, why do we have them (another blog perhaps on this one...) So for the...

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09 March 2022

Ethical Spending in a Crisis: Taking Back Community Power

So, a prickly topic - buying something with the intention of reducing harm whilst the product itself, and the company selling it, have been negatively impacting the welfare...

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03 February 2022

Dressing the body: Replacing 'Fast' with 'Past'

Dressing the body to express ourselves is a primal human instinct that goes back thousands of years. But if our ancestors rose from the dead today, they would...

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01 February 2022

The Better Business Act: A New Contract Between Business and Society

Where the responsibility lies in overconsumption is ambiguous. We are in a dizzying back and forth between focusing on consumers, for buying and then businesses, for offering products/services....

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