Willow Caskets

The Co-operative will offer fair trade coffins in the UK. The bamboo and willow coffins are handmade in Bangladesh and will be available at more than 900 Co-operative Funeralcare homes, MSN reports. They have been endorsed by Traidcraft, and the initiative Nicola Basham, who runs the company Go Willow! which makes woven willow caskets, is running the course Go Wild With Weaving! this April, tutored by herself, and four other established Golden Bay weavers. The course offers five two-day workshops and Basham With a complete focus on personalisation, Mother and daughter Donna and Tia Waiariki of Know the Flax (knowtheflax.co.nz) , produce one off hand-woven flax caskets. Go Willow! (gowillow.co.nz) handweave willow caskets, and EcoCoffins (ecocoffins.co.nz The coffins will be made at a site employing around 70 people in the Nilphamari district. Photo: The Co-Operative/PA Wire Handmade bamboo and willow coffins from Bangladesh are being made available in the UK, carrying with them a fair trade status. If that's what you're thinking, then you might want to check out a "green burial," in which no embalming chemicals are used and you go to your final resting place in a casket made of woven willow, sea grass or pine, "so the body can do what it's designed In the Fine Hardwoods Selectorama by Larry Frye, black willow rates a two-sentence mention: "Used largely as lumber. Known in the casket trade as salis." The Guide to American Hardwood Species gives it slightly more space, explaining that the sapwood of .

Ytsma's burial took place Saturday, funeral-goers forming a broad semicircle around the wind-swept hillside grave site as pallbearers delicately lifted the earth-friendly sea grass and willow casket that contained his un-embalmed body out of the hearse. Litwiller-Simonsen Funeral Home and Crematory, located in Ashland, offers green burial services and products, including pine caskets that aren't finished with lacquer or toxic chemicals, sustainably harvested woven seagrass or willow caskets and linen shrouds. Woven fleece liners are also available for coffins made from willow, seagrass and recycled cardboard. Linda adds: “The environmental aspect is very important to me. Green services are becoming increasingly prevalent. People see funeral services and Wicker, bamboo, willow and traditional coffins will continue to be accepted at Robin Hood. And a Solihull Council spokeswoman said the crematorium would accept all coffins assessed as suitable once a national standard had been agreed. Robin Hood Cemetery .

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