Textile World: Redefining 100 Percent Cotton 

         

                 From this article I am specifically looking at the part titled ‘Redefining 100 Percent Cotton’. While looking through journals I came across this and found it to be a really interesting read. From specialising in weave I have become more aware of the properties of materials and yarns and am finding it really interesting to discover how they all work both separately and together. The idea of 100% cotton actually becoming 100% cotton is quite exciting. I had never really thought about what else happens to the yarn/fabric even when it is labelled as 100% but now that I have there are so many more processes involved; not only with dyeing the fabric but with the finish etc. 

                Environmental issues are a massive problem within the textiles and fashion industry and is bigger than most people expect. So to discover more and more brands and companies working to fix it is quite compelling. Although ‘Cotton Incorporated’ and ‘EarthColors’ are still in the early stages of being able to “[use] cotton biomass to dye cotton fiber”, the work is heading in the right direction and I hope will continue to expand and develop. To know that there are 3 million tonnes of cotton biomass generated each year that could be used to reduce waste is fascinating and I am interested to see where the work goes.

                At this stage in the development, they are only working with “brown hues” however this is still proving that this process is possible and could help to create sustainable fashion.

Davis, R. (2017) Cotton Pricing: Year In Review | Textile World. Textileworld.com. [Online] [Accessed on 16 January 2017] http://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/features/2016/11/30571/.

Brand & Performance Textile Specialties |. (2017) Bpt.archroma.com. [Online] [Accessed on 16 January 2017] http://www.bpt.archroma.com/earthcolorsbyarchroma/.