I started Offset Warehouse because of the issues I faced as a designer trying to create sustainable products. At the core of everything I do is my belief that no designer should ever…
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Author Archives: Charlie Ross
Qmilk Fabric Technology: From Waste Product To Luxury
Each year, thousands of gallons of milk are poured straight down the drain—sometimes because it’s spoiled, other times because it’s surplus or simply growing too close to the sell-by date….
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Update in Sustainable Fabrics Development – Using Coconut!
Coconut is widely known for its health and beauty benefits. It has been used to make a huge variety of products from cream, flour, oil and butter, to hair masks…
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A New Opportunity For Coffee Waste… Sustainable Fabrics!
People just love coffee (me included). It’s one of the few things that bring us together across borders, classes and cultures. As a result, a staggering 3.5 billion cups of…
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Developments In Sustainable Fibres: Hagfish Slime
As the demand for sustainable textiles increases, we are often forced to explore unusual and sometimes even peculiar prospective sources. We’ve already explored fabrics made by spiders, extracted from fish…
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Successful StartUps – Five steps to avoid stagnation
This week we have a guest post for you from a successful entrepreneur. He’s here to offer tips and advice about how to arm yourself for startup business success. We…
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A new development in sustainable fabrics is Ioncell-F
To simply define the plant cellulose-based fibre know as Ioncell-F, you need not look any further than Ecouterre’s brief summary, highlighting the substance and the captivating process by which it…
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Our Eco Designer of The Future’s Sustainable Textile Design Collection
Some of you will know that we hold an annual student sponsorship programme, whereby we invite final year students on design-led courses to submit their sustainably orientated project. This year’s…
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A New Sustainable Seaweed Fabric… SeaCell!
Imagine a fabric that not just protects the skin, but allows it to absorb nutrients! What if the ingredients in this fabric didn’t involve farming or animal use, but came…
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What Is Knitting? A Brief History of Knitting And Its Uses
There are many basic methods of making clothes, and knitting is one of the oldest of them. There are Egyptian knitted artefacts that date back to the 5th century AD. Hand-knitting…
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