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Description: This material would be suitable for a jacket or a sculptural piece as its stiff quality makes it shapeable and ideal for building silhouettes.

Textile/Material: A thick material with bright white contrasting flax fibers sprouting through a royal blue linen and a layer of recycled black flax. The fabric is rough and bumpy to touch on the front but smooth and hairy on the back.

Impact on Planet/People/Animals: The navy linen base fabric was a leftover material from a designer's project. The impact of recycling old fabrics and repurposing what is already there is significantly more sustainable than using new materials. Flax fiber is also a more sustainable alternative, as it is grown quickly and easily, requires very few chemicals, and does not require irrigation during its cultivation.

Construction:

• Composition: 100% LI
• Raw Materials: Linen, Flax
• Coloration: Piece dyed, Fiber dyed, Undyed
• Sourcing: Secondhand and Meaningful Crafts
• Weave: Weave + Non Woven

Circularity: The flax fiber can be removed from the sample and re-felted. A way the linen fabric can be recycled is by shredding the fabric into small pieces and breaking it down into fibers. It can then be carded which aligns the fibers and makes them ready to be felted again. Adding virgin wool fibers can improve its quality.

Recipe: For this sample, I recycled black flax fibers I had used on a previous sample. They were lightly felted and matted, so I laid them in chunks and let the fiber react the way it wanted to. I passed this through the needle punch machine once to set the fibers, then flipped the fabric to the other side and laid two layers of white flax. When passing this through the machine, I turned the speed down to allow the needles to heavily punch the white flax through the fabric.