Upcycled velvet boob cushion - coffee

The cover is 100% upcycled textile sourced less than 100km away from the workshop. For the lining, upcycled sheets are used. "From constraint creativity is born!"

It is then silk-screen printed with water based inks without solvent and corresponding to Oekotek and GOTS norms.

Filling is 100% polyester. Nice for feather allergics and vegans but not so nice for the planet. It's for now the only solution that allows Catherine, the creator, to offer a good quality cushion that lasts. She's however interested in solutions allowing to recover polyester scraps from factories to have a 100% upcycled product!

Cushions are silk-screen printed in Chatherine's worskshop in Chartres and are then assembled in La dame à la Licorne insertion worshop, in Chartres.

The cushion is handmade.
Catherine selects, cuts and ennobles the textiles with manual silkscreen printing. Inks dry in the open air at first and are then fixed warm with a press, still used by hand. Textile elements are then delivered 'in kits' to the integration workshop who takes care of the tailoring.

All cushions are manufactured by the Integration Workshop "La Dame à la Licorne"'s semstresses. This organization accompanies annually over 24 unemployed job seekers having social and occupational difficulties to facilitate their integration. Concrete and gratifying realisations, no matter the size or importance, are the opportunity for these people initially deprived from a job to acquire know-hows, to reactivate interpersonal skills, to gain back their confidence and to build and validate a project that is consistent with their potential and the local employment market.

Cushions are packed in an upcycled cover and are transported in train when possible or via a carbon neutral delivery method.

We don't have any sustainable info on this for now.
If your cushion was nibbled on by your guinea pig or a child chose it to express their art with permanent markers, drop it at a collection point so the velvet can be recycled.