Eco-friendly crafters loved an uncommon job at Kirkcudbright Local weather Kitchen just lately – making beeswax wrapping.
The 100 per cent pure product can be utilized as a sturdy and reusable various to plastic stretch protecting.
Rose Corridor, who runs the initiative at her Excessive Avenue house, stated: “Everybody made three wraps of various sizes.
”We used beeswax, pine resin and jojoba oil to coat cloth that was once a quilt cowl.
“Beeswax wraps are an eco various to utilizing cling movie for wrapping meals and protecting bowls.
“They cut back our plastic use, our demand on pure assets and promote a extra sustainable way of life.”
Rose, who beforehand lived in Kirkcudbright, moved again to the city from Edinburgh in Might.
Earlier than that she held common lessons within the capital selling sustainable dwelling and recycling concepts.
She stated: “It took me a yr to develop the recipe for the beeswax combination.
“Earlier than I moved down I skilled greater than 1,000 individuals in Edinburgh.”
Crafters held their final Kirkcudbright Local weather Kitchen of 2022 yesterday.
High job was fashioning jewelry from previous bicycle tyres.
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