"Hand work requires no electricity, petroleum or machinery. It emits no carbon or methane into the atmosphere. It provides life skills and work to human beings and enables them to create garments autonomously with less dependency on a system with vastly diminishing resources. For example, one of us can execute a beautiful hand slip-stitch down a jacket front ourselves with just a needle, thread and know-how, far faster, less expensively, and more beautifully, than the classic AMF machine system industrial alternative. This creates high value works that are beautiful, unique and meaningful in a multitude of ways."

At over 12 euro cents per meter, wholesale, the legendary "Bozzolo" silk thread is one of the most luxurious and expensive ones available. Its beautiful colors and luminescence are often used by Small to highlight the hours of passionate hand stitching work that go into many of his pieces.