What is Fire-Hose? How do we rescue it and why? - Elvis & Kresse

Since 2005, Elvis & Kresse has been rescuing all of the London Fire Brigade’s damaged decommissioned hoses. We have been saving them from the indignity of landfill. But why? And what is fire-hose? We have had so many questions about our signature raw material that we thought it was time to share all of what we know about these strong, lustrous coils of life-saving goodness. The rich, red lustrous coils of London hose that Kresse fell in love with A brief history of fire-hose Fire-hoses were first invented in Holland in the late 1600s. They were made from hundreds of strips of leather stitched together into long tubes. These were heavy and unwieldy, but better than the bucket brigades that preceded them. Leather hoses, in various forms, were used up until the 1890’s when they started to be replaced by

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