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How Project Repat Turns Scraps Into Socks

The Cambridge, MA-based company, which Lohr co-founded in 2012 with Nathan Rothstein, stitches its customers’ old t-shirts—from sports teams, college orientation groups, and what have you—into keepsake quilts, had just ranked 132 on the 2016 Inc. 5000. That recognition was good for business, but it meant more quilts and more scraps, Lohr says. That same year, they ended up getting a mobile storage unit full of the T-shirt scraps. 

“Every year there’s a new batch of graduates and that’s how our business sustains itself,” Lohr says. “But you don’t need the whole T-shirt to make the quilt. “This has always been the thorn in our side, from the very beginning.” 


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