Most retailers seem to be in agreement that Americans don’t care about where their products come from as long as they get what they want. Thanks to The Blue Lace Project, retailers might be in for a rude awakening this season. In an effort to prove Americans care about domestically produced goods, New York-based clothing manufacturer Flint and Tinder partnered with Portsmouth Ohio-based Sole Choice to create “the very best shoelace they’d ever made.” The result is a blue double-waxed canvas shoelace strong enough to pull a 13,000 pound truck. Founder Jake Bronstein hopes both the product and the color blue will serve as a symbol to retailers and others that there is strong demand to restore American manufacturing. The project met its original $25,000 funding goal on Kickstarter just 10 hours after it became public, and went on to raise over $150,000 in just 30 days. It’s not too late to support the movement. You can still buy a pair of blue laces for $5 at Flint and Tinder.
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These Gloves Will Keep You Warm and Help Renew American Manufacturing
Somewhere along the line, “Made in the USA” changed from a sign of quality to the sign of a high price tag. Brooklyn-based Bram Robinson is one of the people who are trying to turn back the clock . His company Upstate Stock makes knit gloves and hats in an upstate New York factory. Check out the company’s Kickstarter page to get in on the American-made movement.