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Moop specializes in canvas and waxed canvas bags, designed and manufactured, start to finish, in our Pittsburgh studio.
I cannot wait to have the plastic come off our huge windows (though, they make for good diffusion panels). I feel very lucky that I get to spend my days in this studio. , which I use as my camera bag. I’m thinking a lot about my little brother who just deployed…again. no.2’s for the next few days and listening to every podcast p.s.
There have been so many moments over the years where I have been so overwhelmed by simply the time spent on production and managing those doing production with me that I did not see how I could continue to build an exciting business that keeps not only me interested I make functional, stylish, practical products and like to believe I float between many worlds ie; art, design, fashion, business, music, food etc., and I want to talk about who will be manufacturing with me. I am proud to talk about them as a company and a noteworthy model of ethics in manufacturing and small business ownership. I’ll be spending a lot of time in Portland and can’t wait to keep the conversation going about what this manufacturing shift means for my small and growing business .
We had our most successful holiday season to date (8 years strong now! ) and did it all with one less person than usual (which meant, I worked like three people where I normally work like two). I know it is not normal to have such a close relationship with the people you work with but, working at Moop is not a normal place to work. It has been massive for me to decide to collaborate with another team to help make Moop bags the best bags you can buy. We have not been able to meet demand because I can only sew so many bags while also doing everything else required to run the business (like this holiday season where we had to cut off orders on December 10th because we couldn’t sew any more bags…that was a big deal for our tiny little company! ).
We started our businesses around the same time and have developed one of my most favorite online maker friendships (one day we'll meet in person! ). I recently moved (as noted in this emotional post here ) and started taking the T to my studio (Pittsburgh has a light rail system and it is one of the best things about this town...wish it went all over the city though). This hat arrived this morning and it will help keep me warm on these frigid days. If you need warm things, here's where you can buy Yokoo's scarves and accessories (