{"id":5888,"date":"2010-03-01T07:35:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5888"},"modified":"2010-03-01T09:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:10:57","slug":"wool-coffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5888","title":{"rendered":"Wool Coffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/woolcoffin.jpg\" alt=\"Wool Coffin\" title=\"Wool Coffin\" width=\"140\" height=\"107\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>UK-based company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturallegacy.co.uk\/\">Natural Legacy<\/a> is taking green burials to a whole &#8216;nother level, with sustainable coffins made of wool.  What makes it even more wonderful is that this site was sent to me by alert reader Linda, who found it in one of her knitting magazines.  As she put it, the coffins were featured in a &#8220;&#8216;now you CAN take your stash with you!&#8217; kind of way.&#8221;  I sort of love the idea of knitting your final resting place.<\/p>\n<p>The site also offers woollen cremation urns, organic cotton shrouds, and coffin handles made of jute.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturallegacy.co.uk\/our-products\/accessories\/traditional-coffin-handles\">handles<\/a> in particular amuse me more than they probably should.<\/p>\n<p>But anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The coffin and urn exteriors appear to be felted wool, and the site says that the frame is recycled cardboard.  If you&#8217;re a fiber artist and like to do felting, a DIY urn might not be out of the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK-based company Natural Legacy is taking green burials to a whole &#8216;nother level, with sustainable coffins made of wool. What makes it even more wonderful is that this site was sent to me by alert reader Linda, who found it in one of her knitting magazines. As she put it, the coffins were featured in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}