The material received the name of S.Cafe. and is completely organic, “does not use any chemicals” and is free from “harmful materials commonly found in other yarns.”
Source: Singtex Industrial Co., PSFK
Pa++ern
Posted by Katrien on Thursday July 16th 2009 at 09:27
Pa++ern is an esoteric language developped by the Japanese duo Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi. The main idea is that one can create custom embroidered t-shirts using Twitter as the control interface.
The program uses sets of one character commands that instruct a sewing machine to excecute specific designs. Users can input these command codes via the Twitter micro-blogging service (@_pt), and view their results on the Pa++ern website.
Wearing coffee instead of drinking it!
Posted by Katrien on Tuesday July 14th 2009 at 15:00
A company in Taiwan has recently turned the well-know coffee bean into a “super high-tech eco fabric.” The process, created by Singtex Industrial Co., can produce two shirts from the amount of coffee grounds needed to make just “one medium cup of coffee”. The fabric is also said to be “quick-drying, odour controlling, and UV-protective.”
DIY second hand fashion
Posted by Katrien on Monday July 13th 2009 at 15:37
Together with the re-launch of their Camden store, Oxfam also began a DIY competition. The relaunch of the store is in collaboration with Mrs Jones , who recently styled a photo shoot featuring “real” people modelling unique looks created entirely using garments from Oxfam’s recycling facility, Wastesaver.
Parallel to some workshops in the Camden store, a DIY fashion competition was launched online.
And if you lack the creativity to start altering on your one, you can always resort to the more than helpful tutorials on the Oxfam website.
Oxfam DIY 2009 from Susie Bubble on Vimeo.