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By ProductEach carefully crafted interlayer for our Full Circle® products is the result of a collaboration between the 3form design team and skilled artisans around the world. Explore our Full Circle products along with the inspiring stories of their sustainable creation.
Banana Fiber Light and Dark Weavers create yarn through a process of gathering wild plants, drying and softening the stalks and spinning the material by hand. The artisans then combine the delicate yarn with carefully selected corn husks or hand-processed allo, to meticulously create the unique 3form textile.
Capiz For generations, the villagers have harvested for food the bright shells growing in the low lying water beds. Now the previously discarded shells are collected, dyed and sold to create a new income and purpose for the community as a whole. Connection Villagers earn supplemental income by tending silkworms and their delicate cocoons in the attics of the homes. Artisans then soften the cocoons in water and gently pull the silk into fiber strips which are then placed by hand into the unique configuration. Ithemba Meaning "hope" in Xosi, Ithemba is our most well known full circle product. HIV-impacted women earn a much needed income by weaving copper and traditional beads. They receive business skills training, job skills training, marketing support and mentorship. Lasso The indigenous people of Chia, the Muisce tribe, in Colombia have used sisal for generations to make woven sacks for coffee beans. Despite losing the market for their product, these resourceful women have found the native weave of Chia a new product life cycle. The result is the unique design for Lasso and Lasso Coal x 2. Palau Indigenous artisans from the coastal regions of rural Colombia cut coconut palms with consideration for re-growth. They then carefully prepare the material through a natural washing process that lightens the color and softens the texture. Sada Artisans prepare traditional Buddhist “prayer paper” from the lokta bark which grows wild in the Himalayas. They combine the hand-made paper with high-grade copper strips through age-old Newari weaving techniques. Structured Bamboo The Nepalese people have over 500 years of experience working with bamboo. Porters harvest the soft wood from the Himalayas and transport it by foot to their community. Artisans cut each piece by hand. And finally skilled workers place the dried pieces into the 3form pattern. Asha Crochet provides hope for yet another artisan group. Indian women utilize this globally well-known skill to create a silver wire and bead design to support their families. This appropriately named product means "hope" in Sanskrit.
Bamboo Rings This favored 3form material is the product of a year-long collaboration and design mentorship. Artisans have developed production techniques and keen quality control in order to transform a common resource into a new source of income. Electra Artisans apply a heat finish to locally pressed metal and then seal it with native beeswax, to product a unique patina. The metal is then hand-cut into specified strands. Any discarded fragments are sold to local sculptors to be melted down and formed into Buddhist statues.
Fossil Leaf/Fossil Leaf Spade Farmers gather “prayer leaves” which are then washed and processed in a delicate manner and sent to 3form to be artfully arranged.
Lattice Females age 18-24, who walked six days from their remote village in Solukumbu to join our 3form team, carefully hand-knot Raffia Palm leaves, fibers from Madagascar, to make the thread. Knitting the lace-like configuration pays for their college education.
Migration A studio founded in the 1940’s connects specially trained African weavers from Northern Swaziland with international textile designers and manufacturers. Weavers use traditional hand looms to create the delicate weave. They then employ manual techniques to finish the design.
Unravel For Unravel, a cooperative of 25 African women crochet locally-milled organic yarn into simple lace. The product is then sent to Southwest Creations, a group creating jobs to alleviate poverty among women in America, for final manipulation.
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