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Ten days under the Q flag | From the workshop #12

In the last newsletter I mentioned July as our best month ever. August just blew through that record. Thank you so much - I don’t know if we are developing...

Shipping containers and bankruptcy sales | From...

I'm tired this week. July was our best month ever, and August is tracking similarly. On shipping containers, bankruptcy sales, and a change to how Kohutt buys materials and makes...

Monozukuri, the pot and the potter | From the w...

Firstly, a week or so ago on the 31st of July, I was sitting at my computer and looked at our ecommerce stats - I realised we were just $1000...

Why factories won, and sewing never needed one ...

This one picks up where the last newsletter left off - decentralisation, and what Kohutt is becoming.  "Cottage" used to mean something specific: a cotter's home, a peasant farmer's hut,...

Car park handovers and the cottage industry | F...

Tasmania has a population under 600,000. Spread out, mostly along the coast, thinner the further you get from Hobart. Somewhere in that number are the people who can sew heavy...

The chore coat, or bleu de travail | From the w...

A chore coat is one of the oldest working garments there is. The French call it the bleu de travail - the blue of work. It was the coat of...