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Goldwin's repair-and-upcycling club widens to families with a Karimoku wood-offcut workshop

Goldwin's own account of its Repair Club shows the circularity initiative widening from adult sewing sessions to a family workshop built on offcuts from furniture maker Karimoku -- a cheap way to make sustainability something a customer experiences inside the company's own Tokyo headquarters, rather than a line in a report.

Calm editorial illustration of a sunlit workshop table scattered with small wood and fabric offcuts, a parent-and-child silhouette assembling a tiny figure together.
Illustration by floortok.com

Goldwin Inc. used an October 13 post on its own newsroom to describe how its Repair Club initiative, run from an event space on the first floor of its Tokyo headquarters, has widened from adult sewing sessions to a children's workshop built around offcuts from furniture maker Karimoku Furniture Co.