A Review of a Highly Vegan Material for Vegan Cuts and some info about the Material Known as Cork
Yay for me!
Today I received a package containing an item that the highly intriguing company Vegan Cuts asked me to review.
If you don’t know about Vegan Cuts, they are a great site. They are a handpicked selection of cool vegan items that are all moderately to heavily discounted. Check them out! Very cool.
They kindly sent me a very fascinating item. A cork bag from the company CoolCorc.
First of all….. a question arises. Why is it that everybody likes cork?
cork on cork
Cork boards.
Wine cork collecting.
It is such a fun material to touch.
Am I right?
I found out from the website of coolcorc that it is also one of the most environmentally friendly materials in the world.
Unlike natural sponges, which are also so fun to touch, but are killed for their amazing texture….
Cork is the bark of the cork oak tree, and incredibly no cork trees were cut down or harmed in the making of these cork products. The bark is simply harvested from the outside of the tree, and the company says this harvesting, kind of like pruning I imagine, allows the cork tree to live an unusually long life for a cork oak tree of around 200 years. They never cut down a single tree. When cork trees die naturally, their website says they are used for the cultivation of edible mushrooms.
How nice.
This cork tree land that the company owns actually allows the company to preserve and protect a incredible forest sanctuary that houses many endangered species including Lynx,
the Golden Takin (an animal I just learned about, probably the origin of the Greek Myth about the Golden Fleece, a winged golden ram)
and Golden Monkey.
On to the purse.
Well….. I love the fabric. It is so very smooth. Cork is great. It is smaller than I expected. Not really sure how I will wear it, but I will try to incorporate it one of these days into my attire.
In retrospect, I wish I had gotten the clutch. It looks very chic and magnifique. I like the minimalist design.
Well…to sum up….
I love what CoolCorc, this company, is doing.
I love entrepreneurs and these people are really doing a lot of good in the world…not only by putting out very unique and interesting products, but by inventing a sustainable way to create jobs for cork cutters in Asia, protecting an old if not ancient cork forest which houses endangered species, and making a stand for cool vegan products and vegan materials…and not cutting down a single tree in the process.
Vegan Cuts is offering a site wide discount for the next 3 days (till November 10th) of 10% off anything on their site. Enter the code
BLOGFRIEND
Thank you so much Vegan Cuts and CoolCorc for asking me to review your product. That was a lot of fun and is the culmination of a kind of blogg-ish dream I had of getting sent a free gift/product to review.
Amazing work, to both companies.
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Your thoughts?
-V-toria
Oh I just love the texture and visual appeal of cork! I got a lovely bag from from Suberstyle. http://suberstyle.com/non-leather-products-ezp-10.html. I agree though on the handbags sizes been too small and I’ve been meaning to suggest to them that a much larger tote is designed, as this will take this divine textile execution into high street style fashion.
Thanks Lynette! I am glad you agree with me on the greatness of cork! Thanks for the link. Those look cool too. Hope all is well!!
Thank you for your kind words on our small cork purse! We are currently working on a number of larger purses and weekend bags that we hope to debut shortly.
Thank you again!
Jessica – President of CoolCorC
No prob at all. Let me know when the new bags come out! Looking forward to seeing them! Thank you!! And awesome work.- victoria