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4 Reasons Soy Fabric May Be Great For Your Fashion Collection
Frock L.A. creates a collections using organic cotton, bamboo, and soy fabrics. Soy has been a popular and familiar trend in alternative food and healthy eating for quite awhile now- but did you know...
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Luxury Cotton: Lenpur Fabric
Have you been weighing eco-friendly textile options to source for your collection? If so, you may want to check out this interesting alternative to cotton: Lenpur. Although this fabric is not exactly...
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Textile Spotlight: Nettle Fabric
Nettle fabric is an unusual textile that seems to defy logic: as the name implies, this strong, lustrous fabric is derived from the nettle plant. If you’ve ever accidentally stumbled into a nettle...
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Source and Develop Sustainable Textiles with Botto Design Studio
If you’re looking to source or develop sustainable, unique fabrics for your next line, Botto design studio is an option to consider. Botto offers many textile services to designers, such as...
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Textile Spotlight: Source Eco-Friendly Lotus Flower Fabric for Your Fashion...
The lotus flower is steeped in cultural symbolism, and has many uses such as in food and teas. But did you know that it is also used to make fabric? The stems of this famous plant contain a fiber that...
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How To Safely Source Angora Wool For Your Fashion Collection
Ambika Friendly furs Interested in using angora wool in your next collection? Or maybe you’re against it? By now, you’ve all likely heard about the PETA controversy surrounding the use of angora in the...
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A Great Place to Source Organic Cotton Fabric
For a long time, there was a stigma that went along with eco-friendly clothing; the clothing was assumed less appealing and unfashionable. But that has changed a lot in the recent years. I mean, a...
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Textile Crush: Hiroko Takeda
If you are looking for some unique wovens to incorporate into your next collection (or if you are a textile junkie like me), you have to check out the inspiring work of Hiroko Takeda. This...
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Source Vegan Friendly Textile Ahimsa Silk
When a designer wants to add beauty and luxury to a collection, silk is one of the go-to fabrics for this purpose. However, for designers who seek to produce vegan, eco-friendly lines, this can pose a...
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Eco Friendly Fabric Sourcing with Pure Waste
If you are on the hunt for eco friendly materials for your collection, you need to check out Pure Waste Textiles. Aptly named, the innovative Finnish company stocks 100% recycled products- an eco...
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Colorball Offers Designers an Earth Friendly Dyed Fabrics
While adding color to your collections is great, dyeing fabric for clothing isn’t always the most earth-friendly process. It uses up a lot of water, and can involve some pretty noxious chemicals. With...
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Re.Verso: Wool Waste Fibers Recycled Into New Material
If wool is on your shopping list for sustainable materials to source for your next collection, then you should check out Re.Verso. This new textile platform puts a more eco-friendly spin on this...
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Fabric Sourcing Tips for Emerging Designers
It’s true. There is an art to finding and ordering fabric. Whether it’s conscious or not, there is some sort of triage system in place when mills and factories speak with designers and developers....
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The Ultimate Fabric Sourcing Checklist for Fashion Designers
Every garment begins with fabric; it is the fabric that brings a design to life. You can dramatically alter your design’s end result by simply changing the cloth you make it from. The process of...
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3 Tips for Sourcing Custom Fabrics for Your Collections
As an independent brand, it’s easy to assume that because you’re not able to purchase large quantities of fabrics and other raw materials, then you are out of luck when it comes to sourcing really...
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How To Safely Source Angora Wool For Your Fashion Collection
Ambika Friendly furs Interested in using angora wool in your next collection? Or maybe you’re against it? By now, you’ve all likely heard about the PETA controversy surrounding the use of angora in the...
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A Great Place to Source Organic Cotton Fabric
For a long time, there was a stigma that went along with eco-friendly clothing; the clothing was assumed less appealing and unfashionable. But that has changed a lot in the recent years. I mean, a...
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Textile Crush: Hiroko Takeda
If you are looking for some unique wovens to incorporate into your next collection (or if you are a textile junkie like me), you have to check out the inspiring work of Hiroko Takeda. This...
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Source Vegan Friendly Textile Ahimsa Silk
When a designer wants to add beauty and luxury to a collection, silk is one of the go-to fabrics for this purpose. However, for designers who seek to produce vegan, eco-friendly lines, this can pose a...
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Eco Friendly Fabric Sourcing with Pure Waste
If you are on the hunt for eco friendly materials for your collection, you need to check out Pure Waste Textiles. Aptly named, the innovative Finnish company stocks 100% recycled products- an eco...
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