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Wool Hat, a New Fort Collins Business is Up-cycling Waste into Fine Furniture and New Threads
Press Release from Wool Hat
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 16:44
 (FORT COLLINS) Wool Hat and comrades, Resource Fort Collins, are giving Colorado residents an alternative to box-store, throw away furniture. The local startup reclaims building materials that are vintage, dilapidated, worn, or unfashionable and refurbishes theses into fabulous furniture and decorating items.
The great American philosopher Homer Simpson once asked, “Can’t someone else do it?” And like so many great philosophies, ours is built on the shoulders of giants. The problem isn’t education; most people know that our consumption lifestyle isn’t sustainable, that gasoline by definition is a limited resource, that we’re cutting down rain forests to make credenzas and greeting cards. The problem is finding a pain-free alternative. Wool Hat is offering a path to the solution.
Every product Wool Hat creates has a story: From the 80-year old barn wood harvested from a wheat farm south of Fort Morgan, to the deconstructed timber-framed home in Estes Park. Whether it’s something someone loved so much they couldn’t throw it away or it’s the polyester fabric that grandma used to strut her stuff in, Wool Hat keep those stories alive, up-cycling those products, so that the next phase of their lives can be part of your story.
“But it is not enough to be reclaimed,” said co-founder Matthew Britt, “We’re also taking on consumerism one consumer product at a time. Craftsmanship and quality used to mean something more than a no-questions asked return policy. When you buy a dining room table, it should be a place for your family to grow up around, and then it should turning into a hand-me-down when your kids start having kids. If something is made with classic design and quality craftsmanship, it should last a hundred years. And then if it’s made from solid wood, someone else can up-cycle it in another hundred years: recycling at its best.”
Britt, and wife/co-founder, Danelle Britt, are making a go of the business while raising two young kids in the Old Town Fort Collins area. Their connection to the sustainable design and building communities inspired them to create Wool Hat from their home. Samples of their works can be round at Resource, Fort Collins, Mama Said Sew, Fort Collins, and online at www.woolhatstuff.com.
“So here we are, Wool Hat,” said Danelle Britt, “two bad dancers with an industrial sewing machine and a table saw taking a different approach to business and the stuff in which we surround ourselves. And away we go!”
Contact Information:
Wool Hat, LLC
Matthew and Danelle Britt
1151 Laporte Avenue, Fort Collins, CO 80521
(970) 402-0811
woolhatstuff.com
Resource Fort Collins
Kendol Gustafson
1501 North College, Fort Collins CO 80524
(970) 498-9663
Mama Said Sew
Angela Gray
121 East Mountain Avenue, Fort Collins CO 80524
(970) 493-0623
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