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- Demidekk Ultimate TäckfärgDemidekk Ultimate Täckfärg is a waterborne, silk gloss stain for outdoor use that accentuates the wood structure. The coating is low-maintenance for 12 years and very durable. It offers protection against weather influences and UV, and can be applied over existing coats of paint. The stain can be used for wood-rich façade elements, like tongue-and-groove board, frame structures, and dormers.
- Hand-marbled fabricsThese hand-marbled fabrics by designer Sabine Spare are inspired by biomimicry and the subconscious. The fabrics are all biobased, like silk and cotton, non-toxic dyes and biodegradable liquids. The dyes are applied in a vessel with liquid, in which patterns can be drawn using tools. The washed and dried fabric is applied to the surface and takes over the patterns of the dye.
- PVD coatingThe company Daumet offers a bespoke gold PVD coating service on a wide range of materials, including leather, wood, silk, textiles, and carbon fibre, to personalise luxury products. Specialised in white gold, the company developed different processes with gold from 24 to 18 karats. The processes substitute two critical raw materials, palladium and rhodium, by a much more abundant element: tungsten.
- PapermilkProduced with milk fibres (up to 10%), cotton fibres (up to 40%) and wood-free primary pulp from responsible sources, Papermilk is tactile paper with a velvety feel that is FSC certified. The material is suitable for most popular printing and finishing techniques: offset, offset with UV inks, letterpress, blind embossing, foil blocking, thermography and silk screen printing.
- Orange FiberOrange Fiber is a silk-like yarn, made from repurposed citrus juice byproducts. When used in its purest form, the resulting 100% citrus textile features a soft and silky hand-feel, lightweight, and can be opaque or shiny according to production needs. The yarn can also be blended with other materials.
- Accessories made from fire hoses on International Firefighters’ DayWhen you think about firefighters, you probably imagine heroes putting out fires, or perhaps sexy calendars, but presumably, you don’t think about what happens…
- Sustainable Textile InnovationsBy Simone Preuss, Feature Editor FashionUnited Sustainable textile innovations are in demand like never before due to dwindling resources, natural fibres like cotton being…
- Qmilk feltQmilk is made from milk proteins from non-food milk and renewable raw materials. The fibres are 100% natural, soft and smooth as silk and skin friendly. With a natural antibacterial effect, high hydrophilicity and thermo-bonding properties, they provide added value of the fibre products in the growth market. The material shown is fabric consisting of 70% wool and 30% Qmilk.
- Exhale: a bionic chandelier that uses algae to clean the airEngineer and designer Julian Melchiorri used algae to design his bionic chandelier Exhale, designed to purify the air. The chandelier consists of 70 ‘petals’…
- Luminous GlassThe invention of this material is basically luminous float glass through the usage of luminous pigments. These pigments are silk-screened on the back of the float glass. The photo luminous pigments are loaded by (UV) light. The loaded energy will be emitted in a dark environment.
- Woven AnimationWoven Animation fabrics have a unique optical effect in which two considered images are embedded in the weaving process and actively transition as the viewing angle changes. The fabrics are made from a variety of fibers and because the effect is created through construction and not material or a secondary process, the fibers used for weaving can vary from polyester to silk, wool or composites.
- Osis techniqueLLot LLov transferred the effects of osmosis caused by salt onto wood. First the surface is glazed monochrome or multi-colour, then it is sprinkled with salt. The results are affected by the kind of salt used, humidity and length of reaction time. Big crystals tend to create big rims with strong contrasts, whereas fine crumbs of salt trigger more differentiated patterns with softer gradients.
- A fruitful idea: fabric made from orange peel by Orange FiberIn Italy, the citrus industry discards one million tonnes of citrus fruit peels annually. While the peels are of course biodegradable, it still costs a…
- Ki-ori TennâgeThis woven fabric is made with Tennâge, this is slit into 2 millmeter pieces, and woven with the method of the traditional Japanese woven textile, “Kyoto-Nishijin-ori” and used a the vertical thread. Horizontal thread can be silk, cotton, polyester or any other materials. It is a textile, so it comes in a roll. The width is 1 meter (approximately 39”) and the length can be as long as you want.
- Shylight: Materials Mimicking Flowers At NightNyctinasty is highly evolved natural mechanism whereby certain type of flowers close up at night for self-defense and also to conserve resource. This natural…
- GradientThis textile has a wooden core and is embroidered with a black yarn in a various ways. The result is a textile with a gradient effect. The basis is the cambium of the paper mulberry tree, embroidered with threads of silk from the mulberry silkworm, which eats the leaves of the tree. This treatment gives the wooden cloths the firmness of textile. Then, it is washed to dissolve the adhesive starch.
- The 24,0000 full colour pixel Galaxy DressThe largest wearable display in the world, the Galaxy Dress from CuteCircuit is embroidered with 24,000 full colour pixels. The dress incorporates the smallest…
- Wood Fibre TextilesTextiles made of wood include Tencel, Viscose, Lenzing FR and Lenzing Modal. Tencel is more absorbent than cotton, softer than silk and cooler than linen. Viscose is naturally botanic, absorbs moisture well and is pleasant on the skin. Lenzing FR offers protection from different kinds of heat: fire, radiant heat, electric arcs, molten metals and flash fires. Lenzing Modal is extracted from beech wood.
- Velero TextileVelero Textile by Jef Montes was inspired by the construction of sailboats and the materials from which they are constructed including glass fiber, carbon, aramid, brass, nylon, wool silk, viscose and cotton. The silhouettes draw from the contours of ships in a storm: angular and organic inspired by the battle between machine and nature.
- Unstainable: Please Spill Coffee On This MaterialThanks to the latest in nanotech coating technology, the most elegant white surface or shirt can stay that way. This so-called 'Unstainable White Shirt'…
- Perltec Cottone Superbo CordoniPERLTEC Cottone Superbo decors are based on natural cotton combined with high transparent glass. The cotton is processed, transforming it into a solid, transparant material. This material is coloured and reworked into the desired designs by hand. Each panel is a one-off. The structure Cordoni interprets the rich effects of silk ribbons.
- From Insects: Wooden LeatherThe silkworm cocoon is composed of raw silk threads measuring between 300 and 1000 meters. Each thread contains hundreds of layers of fibres, which contain a natural glue called Sericin. This natural glue can be activated by spraying water and heating the fibers. The outcome is a strong paper that can be layered and varnished to create a wooden material.
- Baby MerinoThis material is a combination of Baby Merino, Merino wool from New Zealand, Cashmere, Silk and Organic Cotton. Using the old technique of spindle and loom the fibers are spun into yarn and dyed by hand using ecological methods and materials. For indoor usage.
- Tree Free PaperInstead of the standard cellulose this tree free, handmade paper is mixture of 100% cotton together with Lotka, Silk and Bamboo.
