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This dress is made from the remains of a 17th-century shipwreck

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Researchers at Finland's Aalto University have salvaged 300-year-old wood from the wreckage of a cargo ship in Oulu, which was transformed into yarn and knitted into a zero-waste dress. The dress is made from pieces of timber extracted from the Hahtiperä shipwreck, discovered in 2019 under a parking lot in Oulu, central Finland. A team The post This dress is made from the remains of a 17th-century
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