purchased a Patricia Nash measuring tape after seeing another in a post. Darling! And her website has them reduced to a really great price so I added to my cart, one for you, one for me. Enlarging the photo made me think twice. Not over concerns regarding Covid, but where I don't want my merchandise to originate.
Am I reading the stamp on the leather correctly? Does that say Real Leather Made in China? I searched the fabulous items on her website and tried to find where she has her products made, there was no information. Any leather I see from that region brings back the horror I felt in 1998 when a major network had a hidden camera in a factory where they clubbed and skinned dogs, many still alive, and dipped live cats into boiling water, like barbarians. The leather and fur on coats sold to Burlington were from these tortured creatures. This leather is not and the PN website states the leather is high quality sourced from Italy and other countries and I have no doubt it is. But I just can't move on from a reminder of that report and never will, even knowing that the leather is from a responsible source and not from their barbaric factories.
Stitching is slow going, I have to keep gel in my left eye which blurs my vision. The light thread is very hard to see on the linen. I'm stitching most areas of it before using the red, and this makes it very difficult for me but inviting to frogs.
Hope your day is productive. And safe.
Be well.
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7 comments:
All of Patricia Nash's goods are made in China or Vietnam.
I think the world should wise up and boycott Chinese made goods.
And all these years later the Chinese still are doing horrible things to dogs.
I am so sorry your vision is such an issue. I am sure it is very irritating. I have spent two days, online searching, for made anywhere but China products. Good luck! I have determined that I will live with what I have. My favorite measure is a small quilters ruler, 6 inches, no stretch. It is probably made in Cina too but I have had it for years so I claim no responsibility. That said, be well, thanks for sharing as you do, it brightens my day!
Something has got to be done concerning the cruelty to animals in China. It makes me really sick to know that kind of thing is going on.........and WHY !
I don't want to buy anything from China.........
Have thought about doing some stitching but can't find the Americana chart that I want to do..........will look for it !
Have a great weekend.
Charlotte in Va.
I don’t know Patricia Nash but the last photo definitely says “made in China”.
Oye....probably shouldn't have read this post so late....even though there are hours between now and when sleep finds me, the images conjured will surely visit me when I finally do fall asleep. Thankfully I did not see that report...although I have read of the atrocities of course. This whole mess is going to make it even more difficult to find American made products unfortunately.... And yesterday our governor extended the lock-down to May 26th. Are you kidding me??? I think there are some legal problems with his decision (the statute only allows him to declare a state of emergency for 30 days and any extension has to go through the legislature...which he didn't do...but what frustration and discouragement it is spawning. ~Robin~
Leather made in Italy would not end up on an inexpensive tape measure. As for animal brutality - do you have any idea what goes on in American slaughterhouses? And not just to the animals. The workers that don't lose parts of their fingers and hands to the knives and equipment get repetitive stress injuries and infections - at least the ones who dare report it. Most of them are illegals who can be under-payed and don't dare say a word about what is done to them or what they see. And now the Trump Administration is changing the rules to allow companies to have "fast lines" that will let companies slaughter 1300 pigs an hour - with fewer inspectors than ever. The Chinese do not have an exclusive market on animal brutality.
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