Paula is weaving her magic to stop an age-old craft 'dying out'

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Paula is weaving her magic to stop an age-old craft 'dying out'
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Using her own loom, Paula Fulton weaves about 5 centimetres of fabric a day. It's all in an effort to reduce waste and keep traditional skills like loom weaving from disappearing.

Paula Fulton keeps a traditional craft alive using one of only a few drawlooms in the country.abc.net.au/news/slow-fashion-loom-weaving-sustainable-clothes-by-hand/101440106Inside her mudbrick home, Paula Fulton sits at one of only a few drawlooms that exist in the country."There might be five drawlooms in Australia," Ms Fulton said.

"It's complex weaving and it's my passion ... I don't use synthetic fabric at all, I only use natural fibres," Ms Fulton said."Some people are into slow cooking, I'm slow-wearing.""We've got a society where there's a lot of waste," Ms Fulton said. "Each of these threads is wound onto the mill and I have to do 1,500 of these turns, from one end to the other," she said.

For the remaining nine months of the year, Ms Fulton weaves for about 45 minutes a day — all she's able to manage with issues with both shoulders.

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