Each Wooln accessories is lovingly hand-knitted by a New York senior knitter, using luxurious yarn.
We want to provide you with an individual and unique item you will love wearing!
WOOLN strives to act for the benefit of society at large: we welcome retirees back into the active workforce, value forgotten talents, and foster intergenerational exchanges.
We also promote a new way of shopping, making the act of buying a more personal and considered experience.
We have collaborated with nine knitters this year: you can even check out who made your knit and learn more about her, who she is and what she does when she doesn't knit.
Our collection is made of the finest alpaca, cashmere and merino we could find These carefully sourced yarns are perfect to the touch plus are sustainably produced.
Our signature chunky yarn is 80% Alpaca and 20% Merino.
ALPACA
We have sourced a royal alpaca as soft as cashmere plus all the treats of alpaca: it is soft, durable, luxurious and silky, and is naturally hypoallergenic. The company we're pairing with collaborates with thousands of artisans in Bolivia and Peru, and works along with international aid organisations to support artisans in the Bolivian and Peruvian Andes commercialize their products in the North American markets.
MERINO
This blend is a super bulky yarn as soft as royal alpaca and it does not shed.
Merino is the king of all sheep for its softnest due to its very fine fibers and is one of the world's most ancient breeds of sheep... you can't go wrong.
CASHMERE
This year, we have collaborated with Lion Brand to source a beautiful natural cashmere.
It's a luxuriously soft, lightweight yarn with exceptional warmth. We have blended it to our royal alpaca, one strand of each, for the softest ever feel. Lion Brand Yarn Company is a 5th generation, family-owned and operated business whose brand has been on the market since 1878
The current process of transformation of every aspect of our life towards a higher level of individual and social responsibility, developed by the projects included in this constantly updated map and by many others not yet included, is thus made visible and above all accessible and therefore open to opportunities for connections and collaborations.
Since 2003, when at Cittadellarte we started to systematically catalogue responsible practices in their different declinations around the world, the global movement of social awareness has reached a wider and wider scope of individuals, communities and institutions.
The project Geographies of Change maps this movement into the form of a participative online archive which intends to be a utility contributing to achieving two strategic global objectives: making public, visible and usable the common good represented by the concrete experiences already active in the world, and facilitating connections, both within this geography and among its hubs and any other civil society organization with which to build bridges and collaboration paths.
Created by Cittadellarte and the University of Ideas as a platform for research and action, it aims at being an open project in progress, generated by the users themselves: everybody is invited to position themselves within this geography and to explore it experimenting its potential in the context of their own research and practice.
The ultimate goal of the Geographies of Change is making more obvious, shared, incisive and deep the impact of the practices aiming at changing our societies towards more responsible cohabitation models with ourselves and the planet. Each of us is invited to consider assuming a role which goes beyond being a member of a hypothetical democratic society and activating themselves as agents of change. At Cittadellarte, we have developed an articulated narrative and an hands-on implementation model for this process: we started off by reflecting within the open laboratory of the University of Ideas on the undelivered dream of democracy (rule of the people, from ancient Greek Demos and Cratos) and on the instituting power embedded in daily practices enacted by all kinds of organizations. Each of them constitutes an actual microstate, with its legislative and governing bodies: they perform practices by means of which they actually express power. Thus we coined the term Demopraxy, by which we mean this more effective and actual declination of an old and never accomplished dream, that of Democracy.
Please refer to our websites for further information and contact:
www.cittadellarte.it/en/attivita/demopraxy
www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/
Cittadellarte is a new model of artistic and cultural institution which places art in direct interaction with the different sectors of society, in order to inspire and produce a responsible transformation through creative ideas and projects.
Michelangelo Pistoletto's symbol Rebirth is an elaboration of the mathematical sign for infinity. The two opposite circles represent nature and artifice, the central circle is the conjunction of the two and represents the womb of rebirth.
Take part too: www.terzoparadiso.org
