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Nick And Jamie - Andrew Wyeth
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Disused materials including tyres, burlap sacks and rope are recycled into footwear for the developing world in this project by Ravensbourne university students
Soled is a project by product design students Jena Kitley, Alani Fadzil and Lauren Joseph, who worked together to come up with a solution for an issue they identified in the developing world.
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"Rwanda has an abundance of tyres, a durable, flexible, waterproof material, which was suitable to be used for the sole of the shoe," said Kitley. "Burlap sacks – used to import and export their produce – and hemp rope were other accessible materials that would be used to complete the footwear."
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Goddammit, Kylee.
Jute can be separated into very, very fine threads to make imitation silk. It can be made into pulp for paper or pressboard.
Burlap bags can quickly be shipped to the where floods are happening and filled up on the spot.
Burlap is used for sacks and bags because of it's texture and price.
Burlap's primary usage is no doubt for the making of burlap bags or burlap sacks.