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So about 2.5 months ago, I decided to get off Instagram and Facebook. This was a decision long coming after years of spending so much of my precious time taking and editing thousands of photos, worrying about hashtags, crazily checking my followers, paying for consultants, battling the Meta algorithm, crying over being Meta black-balled, drooling over other people's seemingly perfect command of the medium, and never seeing any difference in terms of my company's reach or sales. Although not easy at first, this life change has been a huge win. I have reclaimed a lot of the time that I had essentially sacrificed to my phone. I have freed up large portions of my day that can be spent doing pretty awesome things. Here are my favorites...

Block-printing, the age-old printing technique we use to create Beastly textiles, is a beautiful, labor-intensive, multi-stage process. It is the ultimate example of slow fashion. What does block-printing look like? Let’s start with the hand-carved wooden blocks.

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