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December 31, 2020

Happy New Year coconut lovers!
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Vegan & compostable coconut leather materials & products from Kerala 🌴
Circular Design Challenge Winner 2020
Peta India Vegan Fashion award winner

We are fully loaded! A glimpse into the intricate

We are fully loaded!
A glimpse into the intricate logistics system we have here at Malai 😁
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Thanks to @itzcandyy for being so easy to fit in small spaces and to @anirudhthampuran for giving our sheets a fine ride 🚗
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#peopleofmalai #logistics #malai #sheets #biocomposite #material #innovation #compostable #vegan #leather #bacterialcellulose #fashion #circularfashion #sustainablefashion #kerala #india

Happy New Year dear coconut lovers! We hope the st

Happy New Year dear coconut lovers! We hope the start of the year has been good for you - on our end nothing catastrophic happened so far :-)
We would like to tell you a little more about the new topics we will be talking to you about this year. In 2021 we'd like to tell you more about composting. We will aslo be preparing tutorials for those of you who'd like to learn how to work with our materials.
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To begin with we would like to give you couple of tips on how to restore your older malai products. Because caring for your Malai product in the right way can make a huge difference in terms of material's lifespan. Do you remember a wallet @playbag_bags made of Malai in 2018? - A coconut lover we know bought it in that year and has used it ever since. The wallet has been subjected to quite an array of wear as he mostly carried it in the back pocket of his pants. We saw the wallet again few weeks ago and noticed the wallet is still holding together well but the surface has been abraded and remined a suede leather more now. We decided to restore it for him and protect the surface from water and abrasion. How can you do the same?
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follow the steps below :
1. clean the product from all dust and dirt using dam cloth. Don't scrub the surface, just rub off the dust gently. Let dry.
2. prepare a solution of water based glue and water (1:3). Apply the solution on all the affected surface and let dry. You can repeat the step 2-3 times
3. once the surface is dry apply Tung oil ( available in hardware stores as product for wood treatment - do only get the pure oil, not its synthetic substitutes). If you cannot source Tung oil rub the surgace with polishing wax or coconut oil.
4. Voila! The life of your Malai products has been extended :-)
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#restoration #mending #materialcare #diy #tutorial #wallet #accessories #playbag #abrasion #surfacetreatment #malai #madefrommalai #caring #biocomposite #bacterialcellulose #natural #fibers #biodegradable #vegan #compostable #coconutleather

@nickypickyy summing up the year 2020 for us 😁

@nickypickyy summing up the year 2020 for us 😁
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From the shooting of Lakme Fashion Show earlier this year.
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2020 - you have been B.A.N.A.N.A.S. 🍌 🍌 🍌
We hope 2021 we will be 🥥 🥥 🥥 again :)
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Enjoy the last day of this year dear coconut lovers ❤️

At the end of this year we'd like to encourage all

At the end of this year we'd like to encourage all of you to keep your creativity as means of achieving sanity. We might still need it in the year to come ;-)
In the midst of all the craziness that Covid-19 imposed on our lives, let's not forget the bigger picture either.
Corona virus has claimed 1.75 million lives globally and transformed lives of all of us. The way we have battled this crisis so far had very little consideration for the environment - quite on contrary.
In comparison; ambient air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths per year due to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases. Around 91% of the world's population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits.
However we don't by any means want to underestimate the risks Covid-19 poses to health of humanity we would like to stress that there are other crises too with far larger impact for a human race. The solution to the climate change crisis is not in hands of medical researchers as the problems are very complex and demand changes on systemic levels. We don't know much about the exact origin on Covid-19 virus although we know perfectly well where the air pollution stems from.
We have been aware of this crisis for many decades yet it seems few of the governing bodies take it seriously enough to take immediate actions. Seeing how quickly we responded to the Covid crisis we can only hope that this experience will inspire all of us to act with more fervour on the crisis of climate change too.
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Beautiful tropical photography by @_its_me_caroline
In the frame : @reachnushkie
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#2020 #crisis #fortkochi #photography #urban #styling #fashion #malai #madefrommalai #accessories #biodegradable #sustainablefashion #circularfashion #vegan #leather #coconut #climatechange #battle

And when you stop you have an opportunity to look

And when you stop you have an opportunity to look and experience things that surround you afresh, find beauty that you didn't see before. These images were made in early December and were taken in Fort Kochi, charming neighbourhood of Cochin with a very rich multicultural history - for those of you who never heard of it. We were talking about a photoshoot with Caroline for a while then and it was not happening because of lack of time. And then one day a muse hit her (we suppose), she took friends to streets and captured these beautiful moments. We are happy this too happened in 2020.
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In the frame : @anand_raghavan
Photography: @_its_me_caroline
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#fortkochi #urban #photography #styling #fashion #bananas #malai #compostable #vegan #leather #material #accessories #kerala #coconuts #coconutleather #2020wentcoconuts

This year has undobtly been full of contrasts in t

This year has undobtly been full of contrasts in their full scale for us.
We met with incredible opportunities that enabled us to move forward and at the same time faced challenges this year has posed to so many businesses all over the world.
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But we're still here! And as they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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We are thankful for spending this year in good health and relatively good spirits :-) Spending the year of Covid pandemics in India has been well - full of contrasts as we stated earlier. But we'd like to remember the good moments too - soaking the warm light of early morning walks during the lockdown, moments of support and solidarity for each other and all the stillness that was suddenly visible in the empty streets that were before bustling with life and noises of all kinds.
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Cause finally after all the rush and chaos - we had to stop.
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Photography: @_its_me_caroline
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#fortkochi #malai #carolinejoseph #photography #styling #urban #india #madefrommalai #finite #fashion #accessories #biocomposite #coconut #leather #compostable #vegan #oilfree

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