Brands and Companies update

-Arches: They are cruelty-free, but their papers cannot be branded suitable for vegans, as for their raw material regulations.                                                                            

Source: Mail Contact

 

-Colart update: They are working on a vegan friendly list, which will take some time, because of the wide range of products they offer; Brands belonging to Colart are e.g. Lefranc & Bourgeois, Reeves, Conté à Paris and Winsor & Newton. But in the meantime you can inquire about specific products.                                                            Colart Vegan Friendly Statement 28march2017                     

Source: Mail contact

 

-Stillman & Birn: the actual paper in the journals and sketchbooks is free of animal derivatives and vegan suitable, unfortunately the binding is not. What a pity.

 Source: Mail contact

 

-St Cuthbert Mill (watercolour paper) : paper is unfortunately not vegan friendly, they use woolen felt and gelatine

Source: St Cuthbert Mill website  http://www.stcuthbertsmill.com/how-we-make-paper/

 

-Waterstons Sealing Wax: I did not write to this company, for I read on their website that they use shellac flaces in their wax. I don’t know about the other ingredients of it.

Source: Wasterstons website

I think there probably do not exist vegan friendly sealing waxes out there. Quel dommage.

 

 

Other new inquiries I sent out to:

-Clairefontaine (Paper)

-Buttinette (All kind of crafting paints and glues)

-Posca

-Folia Bringmann (Paper, e.g. origami, bascetta)

-Rico Design (all kind of crafting paints and glues)

-Spectrum Noir

-Blauweisschen (beautiful fabric paints, small business, they also make wonderful wooden stamps; everything handmade)

– Manuscript (calligraphy pens and sealing wax)

 

I am working my way through several new pages with other brands, I wrote down, and for the biggest part have not heard of them before my quest, for example paper manufacturer Strathmore, with their wide range of vegan friendly paper products.                                                          There are still a lot of companies /manufacturers I have not heard back, or haven’t gotten an update yet.  Those you can find in my last update: https://www.veganartstuff.info/2017/03/22/brands-companies-update/   I probably will not get a reply from a lot of them, but I still hope for the best, although they just could have replied that they have generally no interest in this vegan friendly matter.

Now that I went through the concerning topic about Animal Testing in the EU, ECHA and REACH, in my last company and brand update (March 22nd), I see troublesome glimpses overseas. When Chartpak (last post) wrote to me, that they have to test for selling in Northern America, I got worried. The biggest part in testing for them does Duke (source: mail contact Chartpak). Do they test on animals, although there are preexisting results and data for comparison and sharing between companies? So many raw materials have already been tested, and especially on the art market, there are so many manufacturers, using the same recipes and same ingredients for their products, for decades or even centuries. Are those still being tested? Why do they not use a similar system to the European Chemicals Agency? Why can’t they  share data worldwide for the sake of not harming a thinking and feeling creature? This should never be their first choice but very last resort (preferred not at all). What does this testing  mean for products of European and other brands distributed in the US, but the products being manufactured outside the US. Do they have to be tested also? This all is so worrisome. This concerns practically all the supplies and brands out there. They all get sold all over the world. Must there be animal testing for selling in  other countries? I pray not.