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First Concept                                                                                                                                                                                                                      The Science
































                                                                                                                            Our first products began simple, but ineffective.                                                                                         The safest and easiest homemade adhesive you can

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      make is a paste from flour and water. It works because

                                                                                                                            They used moulding materials that we could not supply                                                                                     the water hydrates the molecules in the flour, making

                                                                                                                            due to our budget and Eco-friendly stance.                                                                                                them sticky. This is known as wheat paste.



                                                                                                                              We needed a mould that would be available everywhere                                                                                    We use this process, with the addition of recycled

                                                                                                                            and follow our views of Eco-friendly products.                                                                                            paper to make our paste that we build our pots with.
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