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
Reknit
Posted by Katrien on Friday January 8th 2010 at 14:37
ReKnit – a project by Haik Avanian – allows people to send old sweaters to the artist’s mom. She unravels and knits them back into a specified article of the month. In the month of January, submitted sweaters will be re-knitted into scarves. So you choose send in your old sweater, choose the type of scarf you want, pay a fee Site visitors can also vote on what should be selected as the next month’s item.
Source: PSFK
Coffee fabrics with milky clothes
Posted by Katrien on Wednesday September 9th 2009 at 14:04
I recently posted an item concerning the use of coffee beans as an ingredient for a new fabric. Guess what; you can combine your coffee fabric with a cloud of milky clothes.
According the Wall Street Journal Online:
“Per Aage Sivertsen, winner of this spring’s Oslo Fashion Week designer award (Naløyet) in February and creative mind behind the Norwegian “eco-lux” brand FIN, plans to make part of next year’s spring/summer collection from a gauze-like fabric based 100% on milk proteins. Making fabric from milk frees up land that would otherwise have been used to grow cotton, a crop vilified for its intense water consumption and high pesticide use.”
Source: PSFK , Wall Street Journal Online
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.”