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25.01.2022 For the last few months we’ve been working with @salvosstores, who have been contributing unsold or rejected donations of knitted items to our fibre recycling operation. Although it’s been a bit touch-and-go during the pandemic, in practice this comes down to me heading into their massive St Peters warehouse once a week to dive into bottomless tubs of garments that have been set aside, fishing out knitted items of natural fibre content that meet our recycling criteria. As we’...ve now built up quite a hoard, the next step is to sort this stuff into colour categories- which will determine the eventual colour of the recycled yarns made from the recovered fibres. = See more

25.01.2022 One of the most striking functions of the recycling facility we're working with is their complete eliminating of water from the waste sanitisation process. This is achieved by 'dry' laundering all textile waste items using Ozone (O3) gas rather than with huge volumes of water and liquid detergents, as is traditional. Ozone laundering sees waste items centrifugally spun in sealed vats while blasted with electrified Oxygen atoms to kill off all organic and bacterial... matter. This disinfects the fabrics while leaving the composing fibres undamaged and ready for recycling. . #recycling #textilerecycling #textilewaste #reducereuserecycle #environmentallyfriendly #cradletocradle #waronwaste See more

24.01.2022 That's a lot of clothing! In accordance with this rise, the number of garments purchased annually by the average consumer increased by 60% from 2000 to 2014. Hello to fastfashion. These figures are from a 2016 report by @mckinseyco entitled 'Style that’s Sustainable: A New FastFashion Formula', which can be accessed through their website. ... . #fashion #fashionindustry #production #consumption #manufacturing #garment #garmentproduction #industry #bargraph See more

22.01.2022 Balls balls balls! In denim blue, chalk white & musk pink

22.01.2022 The jury is still out on what to call this shade of soft, silvery green... Sage? Khaki? Cargo? Gumtree? Y’all got any ideas?

22.01.2022 Indigo, emerald, clay & magenta fabric shreddings for our #textilerecycling project Amongst the textile waste we’ve collected thus far, there are various items that aren’t suitable for recycling into new, spun yarn. We’ve colour-sorted these items and shredded them down into this ‘confetti pulp’, which I’m now keen to experiment with.... The question being: how might we incorporate it into the design of new products? I have a few ideas...

21.01.2022 The next step is to come up with names for each of our five recycled yarn colourways, one of which is this pale, luminous and softly heathered white-grey. Any ideas? Marble? Chalk? Ash? It’s giving me flashbacks to reading @edmunddewaal’s #thewhiteroad, about the seductive, mysterious and at times brutal history of porcelain

20.01.2022 We're currently collecting pre and postconsumer knitted textile waste from people and business around Sydney for our recycling program. This includes old, damaged, faulty and surplus knitted apparel, accessories, homewares and fabrics. Any condition will work torn, stained or threadbare. Can be anything from chunky knits to fine jerseys. ... Visit our website to learn more about our collection criteria and request a pickup! . #recycling #recycle #textilerecycling #textilewaste #textile #textiles #knit #jersey #knitwear #yarn #eco #sustainable #sustainability #ecotextiles #ecofashion #fibrerecycling See more

18.01.2022 Crochet bucket hat pattern I’ve been working on in Sage green (I think we’re gonna go with ‘Sage’ as the name for this colour) in our 10Ply/Aran Citizen Wolf recycled yarn. Although now that I look at it, the shape is giving me more ‘WW1 combat helmet’ than everyday bucket hat

18.01.2022 Closeup of the bumbag design in our Denim blue colourway. The crochet stitch is called Thermal stitch; which is basically constructing two layers of single crochet at the same time, so it’s quite dense and structural- ideal for bags that need to retain their shape even with rigid or pointy objects carried inside them (like keys or iphones ), that may otherwise distort or stretch the fabric

16.01.2022 Musky pinks icey blues ... For our first production run we’re recycling textile scraps donated by @citizen_wolf. These images depict the five colour categories we've compiled with what they've supplied which will determine the resulting colours of the recycled yarn. No bleaching, No dyeing. Citizen Wolf is an innovative young label that manufactures custom-fit apparel right here in Sydney, and their donation consisted of jersey fabric off-cuts in a beautiful array of... colours and all-natural fibre contents; the valuable remnants of their manufacturing process. Our recycling facility in Hong Kong is moving through the fibre-recovery process as we speak, and we expect the yarn to be spun by July- so stay tuned for the real thing! . #textilerecycling #recycledfashion #recycledyarn

12.01.2022 Ruffles & reflections #crochet

11.01.2022 Crochet ‘sling bag’(?) design I’ve been developing in our Denim blue Citizen Wolf Recycled yarn I don’t actually know if there’s a proper name for a bumbag worn across the chest like this... but I see it everywhere! On trendy urban Hongkongers sauntering down TST boulevards to packs of teens with questionable motives wandering the Sydney CBD late at night... What would you call this kinda bag?

09.01.2022 A couple more Chalk white #crochet baskets in our Citizen Wolf recycled yarn For the past 1.5 years I’ve been running weekly art therapy/crochet workshops at a mental health in-patient clinic in Sydney, and these baskets have always been the first project I’ll teach patients to make. It’s a simple pattern but infinitely customisable- easy to adjust the diameter and height to achieve whatever proportions you’d like. I once had a particularly prodigious patient return the wee...k after her initial lesson having made an enormous dog bed for her pup following this same pattern! I’m thinking about making a tutorial video for these to go up on our webstore once we’ve launched...

09.01.2022 Lordy lord this one's scary This is another estimate from @mckinseyco's 2016 report 'Style That's Sustainable: A New FastFashion Formula'. This figure is calculated based on the fact that countries with the most extensive textile manufacturing industries rely mainly on fossil fuels for energy production. .... #fashion #fashionindustry #production #consumption #manufacturing #textilemanufacturing #textiles #fabric #garment #textileproduction #garmentproduction #industry #greenhousegas #greenhousegases #climatechange #pollution See more

09.01.2022 #silk #textilewaste #organza experiments

09.01.2022 -and it’s so beautiful to work with! Has a smooth touch on account of the merino, but a crisp, structural handle from the high proportion of cotton, linen & hemp composing the recycled waste fibres. Perhaps most crucially, the plies hold together securely with very minimal splitting as you work (despite my constant frogging and reworking ). Huzzah! Sample pictured is a crochet ‘linen’ or ‘moss’ stitch done in the round.

08.01.2022 A stat on the toxic toll of textile dyeing presented by @mckinseyco in a 2019 article. Perhaps M&co have an alternative source, but this same figure has been popping up for the better part of a decade; the farthest back I was able to trace it was to a report commissioned by the World Bank in 2012, on the state of textile manufacturing in Bangladesh. Hard to find info as to whether this 20% has shifted 8 years on, factoring in improvements in industrial tech against an ever-increasing global demand for fast fashion

08.01.2022 Charcoal Chuesday

07.01.2022 Charcoal & Chalk

07.01.2022 Some Saturday afternoon crochet basketry, made with our Citizen Wolf recycled yarn

06.01.2022 Mmmm now I can’t stop seeing this sage green/grey gum hue everywhere I look! Noticed this big, beautiful glazed pot amongst my mum’s collection of garden stoneware... maybe I could crochet a collection of inspired pots and vessels in our sage green recycled yarn? For what practical purpose I couldn’t say...

06.01.2022 View from above of those #crochet baskets

05.01.2022 ...and the first samples have arrived! Introducing our inaugural range of recycled yarn. Five colours, each a blend of 45% Australian merino wool and 55% recycled fibre, derived from @citizen_wolf’s post-production textile remnants, collected at their Sydney manufacturing studio. Although we’ve got a long road ahead to get the range ready for commercial sale, these initial samples still represent a massive milestone- the culmination of our efforts over the last 18 months- and are a testament to the industrial technology that has made this type of small-run recycling possible and affordable.

05.01.2022 Yikes. Hard to stomach given the extreme drought conditions currently afflicting so much of Australia... This estimate comes from the @worldwatchinstitute's 'Vital Signs, Volume 22: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future', by way of an online @Mongabay article by Mike Gaworecki. I'd be keen to find out how much of this water is used in the dyeing process compared to the cultivation of fibres and manufacture of the composing textiles. ... . #water #tshirt #jeans #manufacturing #factsandfigures #fashionindustry #garmentproduction #waste #sustainable #sustainability #sustainablefashion #reducereuserecycle #environmentallyfriendly #ecofriendly #eco #cotton #denim #fastfashion #oneplanet #resources See more

05.01.2022 Crochet Linen stitch beanie in Musk pink -made using our Citizen Wolf recycled 10Ply yarn. Linen or ‘moss’ is fast becoming one of my favourite crochet stitches; it creates a far more elastic, malleable fabric than is typical for crochet, so is great for wearables that require a good deal of stretchiness (like a beanie or sweater). Plus it drapes beautifully

01.01.2022 When you get up close like this, you can juuuust start to make out the different hues of recycled fibre that compose our denim blue yarn. I can see some hints of brighter blue, and even tiny spots of teal and aqua in there Zoom in and look around! Because the yarn hasn’t been dyed, these are just the original colours of the textile waste that was recycled to produce it

01.01.2022 This bumbag design is kinda giving me a twisting gumleaf vibe in this shot; I’m waiting for one of those leaf curling spiders to crawl out