With over 150 years’ experience manufacturing wool clothing, Devold of Norway views wool sourcing as a key to quality. In 2016, the company decided to begin buying merino wool direct from selected sheep farms – and to pay them a...
Since 2009, Fjällräven has been developing its 100% traceable down scheme known as the Down Promise, today considered to be among the best in the outdoor industry. Now they want to find a similar solution for wool....
Transparency encourages scrutiny and accountability. Icebreaker, the natural performance clothing company, champions radical transparency with the launch of its inaugural Transparency Report. The journey made by clothes remains largely unseen. They may have started life in a field and then travelled...
With Texapore Ecosphere Jack Wolfskin launched a 100 % recycled outer fabric, membrane and lining. Even the inner jackets are now made as an eco-version from recyled PET....
“Think global, act local.” For Swedish glove manufacturer LillSport, this means building an environmentally adapted tannery and starting a solar-powered glove factory with their partners in Ethiopia....
With the Ortovox Wool Promise, the German mountaineering brand is challenging the industry’s standards for an ethically responsible sourcing of Merino wool – while making friends on the other side of the globe....
Mountaineering specialist Salewa combines wool from the Tyrolean mountain sheep with modern Celliant technology and utilizes a highly functional natural fiber harvested by local mountain farmers. South Tyrolean mountain sheep wool can be found in many winter jackets made by the...
The Green Shape Core Collection of VAUDE consists of 90 % biobased, recycled or natural materials. The outdoor brand uses even unconventional substances such as unmarketable cow’s milk, wood and castor oil....
Recycled wool has emerged as a new material favorite. Yet in the Prato province of Northeastern Italy, home to one of the largest textile clusters in Europe, knowledge about how to turn used wool fabrics into new is centuries old....
In November 2017, the Swedish cross-disciplinary research program Mistra Future Fashion announced a major breakthrough in recycling polyester/cotton fiber blends....
