Sustainable Fabrics

Brands sourcing wool fabric for tweed and boucle lines face a question that did not exist a decade ago: recycled wool or virgin wool? The choice affects fiber strength, hand feel, color consistency, price, and the sustainability story you can tell on a hangtag. Getting it wrong means either overpaying for virgin fiber you do … Read more

The Responsible Wool Standard, known as RWS, is a voluntary certification developed by Textile Exchange that verifies wool comes from farms practicing progressive land management and humane animal husbandry. For tweed buyers sourcing from Chinese mills, Responsible Wool Standard RWS certification answers a question that European regulators and brand compliance teams increasingly ask: can you … Read more

The gots vs grs certification question lands on every knitwear buyer’s desk at least once a season, usually right before a retailer asks for proof. The two acronyms sound similar, but they answer different claims. GOTS stands behind organic fiber content. GRS stands behind recycled content. Pick the wrong one for your line and you … Read more

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