Why Reclaimed Fabric?

recycle

• verb 1 convert (waste) into reusable material. 2 use again.

— DERIVATIVES recyclable adjective recycler noun.

reclaim

• verb 1 retrieve or recover. 2 bring (waste land or land formerly under water) under cultivation. 3 redeem from a state of vice.

• noun the action of reclaiming or the process of being reclaimed.

— DERIVATIVES reclamation noun. (taken from the oxford compact dictionary)

Why use recycled or reclaimed material’s you say…

Every year tons and tons of fabrics end up in land fill. When you think about the amount of precious resources that go into producing these fabrics, it makes sense to recycle what we can. Reclaimed or recycled fabric is fabric which comes from old clothing or manchester that is no longer wanted or just not suitable for its current use. You would be surprised at the amount of things that get thrown away because of a little hole or stain.

For some it’s hard to contemplate water being a valuable and precious resource, because for all of our lives all we had to do to get some is turn on the tap for an ‘endless’ supply. But with shortage of water comes the shortage of other basic commodities that we take for granted, food being the major one. Death has already been given in the fight for water in some countries.

So here at charlie rabbit we try and use as much recycled and reclaimed fabric as possible… and look at the results.

If I didn’t tell you that this skirt was made from 100% reclaimed fabric, would you of even had a clue?

Just think, the average cotton t-shirt uses around 1500 litres of water to grow the cotton and the average pair of jeans uses a huge amount of 6800 litres.

(visit www.treehugger.com for more about our consumption of water)

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