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Today is World Water Day, an annual celebration started as part of a United Nations campaign to raise awareness about water scarcity and safety issues around the world. For most of us reading and sharing this post, water safety brings to mind lifejackets and sail boats. However, the ongoing Flint water crisis is a powerful reminder […]

Before our upcycled sails can be hand-cut and assembled into our totes and duffles, they need a bubble bath! We massage a citrus-based, biodegradable soap into all of our sails and tarps. This ensures any salt and grime from their previous experiences are scrubbed out to make room for new adventures. Here’s a behind the […]

Watching Angela Sun’s award winning documentary (available on Netflix) about the crisis of ocean plastic was sobering, to say the least. She travelled to the remote Midway Atoll where tens of thousands of pieces of plastic wash up at the Atoll every year. This is in addition to the massive piles of debris that have collected […]

Our partners over at Knack Shops do a special series on their blog called: GENIUS GIFT SERIES. Metamorphic bags were recently featured as “a memorable gift with a story that begs to be retold.” We may be a little bit biased but we LOVE the title of the series almost as much as we love […]

Haute couture fashion has not been known to spark images of conservation or ecology. Luxury, exclusivity and excess are more often images that flood the high-end luxury goods market. That changed today when Chanel presented their new line at Paris Fashion Week. Karl Lagerfeld, the creative director of Chanel among other luxury brands, is as […]

How cool is it that one of our favorite brands, PangeaSeed Foundation, has featured our bags as their Pick of the Week. PangeaSeed is a foundation that strives to bring together sustainability, education, ecology and design to inspire change around pressing ocean environmental issues. Their movement is ambitious and absolutely necessary. We are beyond honored […]

OCEAN garbage, that is! Ecouterre is a website devoted to the future of sustainable fashion design. They have featured the newest collaboration with Parley for Oceans and Adidas to create the world’s first shoe upper made entirely from reclaimed ocean plastic and illegal deep-sea gillnets. “At Parley for the Oceans, we want to establish the oceans as […]

As we come to the end of a great year for Metamorphic, we have been reflecting on some of the moments that have made us proud to be part of a Seattle-based team that innovates and creates stylish, upcycled bags and accessories. Our drive to create a company that is earth minded and forward thinking while always […]

We are always energized by craft fairs. The creativity, initiative and collective imagination from the eclectic group of vendors that find themselves at craft fairs is inspiring. We love the spirit of entrepreneurship and the excitement from each shopper when they discover something wonderful that is made in their own community. Find us in Hangar […]

The weather here on the Wet Coast makes shopping our great local shops a little soggy. Stay cosy while finishing your holiday shopping on our online store. Dopp kits make great gifts for under $40 which can easily fit all your toiletries for a week’s holiday. Our upcycled sailing materials are used to the rainy […]