Fabric Samples...

Whilst in London I took a trip back to Soho collecting more fabric samples to go in my sketch book! However I had the challenge of having to make sure they were sustainable fabrics. I was quite shcoked at how alot of the Soho fabric shops did not stock this particualr farbic or couldnt be completely sure where it came from. This said to me the size and low demand for Eco favbrics. One shop that was very helpfulwas Broadwick Silks they had a huge variety of different types of silks from all overthe world. The man in the shop gave me a name of a company called Bamboo it was interesting to look at there website and see what sustainable methods they used.

But is silk sustainable?

Manufactoring silk into fibre is sustainable. The silk worms are used to obtain the silk which obviously means silk is sustainable if silk is created by silk worms. There are many different ways to create silk but the most common way is now by large corporate farms that use alot of chemicals this comes from dying silks which is not a sustainable method. If the silk is not dyed this would make the silksustaiable. I got a sample of a fabric I liked whiched had been un dyed I cannow add this to my sketch book!

Picturesof the different fabric samples I have collected...E leather, broadwick silks un dyed (london) and green fibres which I found very interesting as they are a small company creating Eco Home wear!