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I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: Bought Dutch Enable Enough Field Grown-Up Hundreds Industrial Items Level Museum Now Other Owned Producer Producing Production Products Single Tea Textile Towels Weaving Year

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In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: About Actually Because Come Countries Course Dutch Eat Europe Kinds Million Million People Netherlands Never One-Third People Pig Pigs Population Really Rest See Strange Well Where Which World You

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I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: Also Ammunition Butcher End Farmers Followed Instance Kinds Like Logical Made Makers Met Mold Number People Pig Producers Products Seems Until Up Way Which Years

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In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: Agent Also Boiling Bone Effect Fat Giving Made Pork Soap Used

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In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: Actually Also Apparently Because Between Bone Decorating Glue Hairs Interior Making Nature Paint Paper Pig Quite Sand Suitable Texture Then Used Very

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My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: About Behind Cheap Come Consume Generally Good Good Way How Important Know Made Make Me Our Products Something Story Things Today Visible Want Way Where Work Wrong Wrong Things You

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I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: Been Bone Bones British China Contains Course Developed Discovered Forget Had Inclined Invention Next Pottery Though Which

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Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

~Christien Meindertsma

Topics: Difficult Even Extremely Find Genuinely Impossible Interested Often Out Products You Your

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Biography

Nationality: Dutch

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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