In addition to exhibiting the very first issue of Our Rags Magazine, Aimée Zito Lema and Elisa van Joolen are creating a new issue produced in collaboration with REST, entitled Issue 3 – The Outdoors. The issue explores how materials, the landscape, and collective action combined can create a publication. Key to this exercise is a one-day, intergenerational workshop on July 5, in which participants collect various types of grass and flowers on the grounds of REST. During the exhibition, the collected plants will be dried in a large wooden press, along with items of discarded clothing. Afterwards, these materials will be processed into handmade paper in a historic windmill in Loenen, where the artisanal technique of transforming old rags into cotton-based paper is still kept alive. Said paper will be used to print the new issue of Our Rags Magazine, which will be published in 2026. Each issue of the magazine serves as a participatory meeting of community and craft, and the new one is no different. Ecology, fashion, and the maker movement literally converge in the fibers of the magazine, posing questions about consumerism and the use of textiles.

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Our Rags Magazine serves an invitation to reflect on processes of transformation, collaboration, and sustainability. The publication doesn’t just feature clothing, it is clothing, and, in its drawing together of things we wear, the landscape, and collective action, provides a tangible new demonstration of the creative potential of recycling. The new issue is being developed in close collaboration with graphic designer Elisabeth Klement.

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From the book Geïllustreerde flora van Nederland:

14. Grass Family – Gramineae, Gramineae

Annual or perennial plants, the latter forming sod or having long underground creeping rhizomes. The stem is round, usually hollow, with nodes that have a cross-wall. Leaves are arranged alternately, with a sheath that surrounds the stem over a considerable length and is usually open (in the genera Pearl Grass, Reed Grass, and Meadow-grass, the sheath is closed). At the junction of the leaf sheath and leaf blade is a membrane called the ligule. Flowers are usually hermaphroditic, with only a few membranous scales as floral bracts.

— E. Heimans, Dr. H. W. Heinsius en Dr. Jac. P. Thijsse

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