In January Munich Fabric Start Will Highlight Five Sustainable Textile Innovations To Watch
Munich, December 2022. A new material age has long since begun: The number of new innovations from alternative raw materials that are bio-based, recycled, recyclable or biodegradable is increasing every year.
Experimental research is turning into market-relevant, sustainable alternatives that optimally bring both together: the greatest possible positive attention as well as real sustainable progress; a turnaround for the phase-out of fossil raw materials and solutions to the textile waste dilemma.
MUNICH FABRIC START is Germany's leading trade show for future-relevant textile innovations for the fashion sector.
Visitors will also find sustainable innovations at the upcoming MUNICH FABRIC START Spring.Summer 24 from 24 to 26 January 2023 at MOC Munich and at BLUEZONE and KEYHOUSE from 24 to 25 January 2023 at the Zenith Areal across all steps of the value chain: from numerous future-oriented materials to waterless dyeing and oxygen-based finishing to AI-controlled processes.
Five Sustainable Innovations To Watch
WASTEA.
After introducing apple leather, the Istanbul-based group SCAYS presented its latest development at the last edition of MUNICH FABRIC START: Leather made from tea waste. WASTEA is based on two components – a textile as a base and a coating of the new tea material. For later recycling, the layers could be separated from each other, says SCAYS. The textile becomes textiles again, WASTEA becomes WASMENT – a new kind of cement that the company wants to use to build schools in the near future.
Flower Matter
Flower Matter by Irene Purasachit: Every day, huge amounts of flower waste are produced - designer Irene Purasachit, who lives in Finland, gives them a second life. She recycles flower stems and leaves into fabric and paper – a vegan alternative for making bags, purses or flower paper. Since the so-called "Flaux" material is made of 100 per cent flower scraps, it is completely natural, biodegradable, plastic- and leather-free.
Bacterial Cellulose
Biotic by Studio Lionne van Deursen: Take yeast, bacteria and sweetened green tea – after a fermentation process it becomes biodegradable, resistant and highly flexible material. How does it work? Microbes spin nanofibres of bacterial cellulose onto a surface. Once this layer dries, it becomes a solid material with properties very similar to leather. In experiments with plant dyes and dyes from fruit waste, the eponymous designer of the Studio for Material Research and Product Design "Lionne van Deursen" from the Netherlands has developed a fabric collection in bright colours, with different light transmission and varied patterns.
Upcycling With Alpaca
Re-Up-Cycle by Incalpaca: Alpaca specialist Incalpaca has developed a highly specialised re- and upcycling process in which textile remnants are turned into new durable high-end fabrics. To do this, Incalpaca buys fabric scraps such as selvages, patterns or yarns from old stock, mixes them with alpaca fibres and produces high-quality re-upcycled yarns from them. Waste from wool and nylon blends as well as recycled nylon can be used, but the process does not work with acrylic and cotton. Extremely short fibres can also be processed. The result: 120,000 kilograms of recycled and upcycled yarn annually – for example for capes, throws and coats.
UV-Sensitive Yarn
Sunkolor by Panorama Fabrics: as climate change increases, so does the amount of invisible UV rays from the sun. The problem with this is that the respective strength cannot be seen with the naked eye. This is exactly what Sunkolor can do, because the material helps to visually perceive the effect of the sun. The Berlin design studio Panorama Fabrics has developed a technology for yarns that make UV rays visible in textiles. Exposure to sunlight transforms the colour of the Sunkolor yarns and displays UV index ranges that are dangerous for human skin.
MUNICH FABRIC START AUTUMN.WINTER 23/24
Opening hours:
MUNICH FABRIC START | KEYHOUSE | THE SOURCE
Tuesday 24 JANUARY 2023 9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Wednesday 25 JANUARY 2023 9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Thursday 26 JANUARY 2023 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
BLUEZONE
Tuesday 24 JANUARY 2023 9:30 am – 6:30 pm
Wednesday 25 JANUARY 2023 9:30 am – 6:30 pm
