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Slow Style Jessa Boeke and Sarah Pottle host hands-on workshops to raise awaraness about natural dyes and fibers. much about the origin of our clothing. The shirts we put on our backs, although right against our skin, are usually separated mentally from the journey they went on to get to us. Sisters Jessa Boeke and Sarah Pottle are aiming to change that. And it happened more or less by accident. While working on furniture reupholstering projects, they found themselves falling short of materials that caught their eye. “We were looking for textiles that we actually liked but couldn’t really find anything that met our taste,” says Boeke. “And so we startMOST OF US DON’T THINK
ed designing our own textiles, really utilizing natural dyes and kind of just totally falling down the rabbit hole of natural dyes.” The rabbit hole led the sisters to open Drift Lab in 2012, a natural dye studio located on their family farm in Medina that showcases the possibilities of natural materials, instead of synthetic dyes and plastic fibers. “It’s just one small part of readjusting and reassessing an incredibly destructive industry,” says Pottle. That fixation on natural fibers inspired the sisters to launch Rustbelt
AN INSPIRATIONAL NIGHT BENEFITING
Formerly called Cleveland Clinic Children’s Gala, the Derby Day Soirée is the signature fundraising event for Cleveland Clinic Children’s.
Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland 300 Lakeside Ave. E, Cleveland, Ohio 44113 PRESENTING PARTNERS
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Join us for the inaugural Derby Day Soirée on Saturday, May 7, 2022. The Soirée will feature the Greatest Two Minutes in Sports, the viewing of the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby, but we won’t end there. The evening will be filled with fancy hats, seersucker suits, mint juleps, and the real stars of the event, our youngest patients.
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For more information and up-to-date COVID-19 attendance guidelines, please scan the QR code or visit clevelandclinicchildrens.org/derbydaysoiree.
