The nature of recycled cotton – impurities and colour variation
Our recycled cotton is made from cutting waste supplied from local markets close by to where our factories are located. This waste is collected from different factories, different fabrics, different productions.
Cutting waste is separated by colour and then manually cleaned from any foreign materials. However, some impurities may still remain inside the waste and may show up in limited extend later on in the final fabric appearance. For example a bit darker or a bit thicker yarn. These impurities enhance the nature of the recycled product and should be seen as an asset, not as a defect.
The final shade of recycled cotton fabric depends on the initial colour assortments of the waste.
Especially our undyed heather colours and the natural raw colour are made with completely water free processes, and therefore may have some slight colour variations between different pieces.
We believe that both, impurities and colour shading,
prove the true story of our recycled process.