Thoughts from the Loom

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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31 December 2021

B The Change in 2022 and Beyond!

For far too long now, business has been built off the backs of the many to benefit the few. Some may think this is how it’s always been,...

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31 December 2021

A New Year, When Looking Backwards is Looking Forwards

Well folks, the end of the year is approaching and there’s no better time to reflect on the last 12 months. We have managed to stay strong through...

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22 December 2021

A change of mentality: The greatest Xmas gift of all this year…

For a day that is rooted in spending quality time, like so many things, capitalism has made us go bonkers to spend lots of money on a lack...

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20 December 2021

Keep the Heid! Prickly Hats: A historic Scottish story…

Woolly Hats. We all love them. Most of our body heat is lost through our heads so we all need them too! Every year they come out in...

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07 December 2021

Microplastics: Not just in the ocean…

The microplastic conversation usually revolves around the sea – the fact that when we wash synthetic fabrics (which are made from burning fossil fuels and contain plastic), tiny...

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07 December 2021

Models: The Power & Responsibility of Imagery

There is a responsibility that comes with putting imagery out into the digital world. Yet a lot of brands turn their heads from this because portraying a specific...

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