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Fantasy Fibre Mill: On the path to place-based textile production

How can we rethink textile production at a local scale? For Rosie Bristow, the answer lies in open-source machinery that makes small-scale processing viable again. As a co-founder of Fantasy Fibre Mill and a PhD student at Heriot-Watt University, she develops affordable machines designed to bridge the gap.

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