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The fabric of life

Our lives are bound up with material stuff, from birth to death, the newborn swaddled in towels to the body wrapped in a shroud. So it’s fitting that Fabric-a-brac, a movement founded to extend the life of the woven and knitted material with which we dress our bodies and homes, should support refuges that offer care for the dying.

Almost everyone has an association with hospice.

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