Recycled

Knitting with recycled wool

If you want to knit in a particularly sustainable way, recycled yarns are a good choice. There are various types of recycled yarns. Either used clothing is processed into new yarn, or other fabrics and yarn scraps that have not yet been clothing are used as raw material. Kremke Soul Wool recycled yarns are our contribution to slow fashion. In our blog post "It doesn't get more sustainable than this: knitting with recycled wool"you can find more details on the topic.

Recycling clothes and jeans to make new yarns

Using our Kremke Reborn Wool as an example, we want to explain the manufacturing process of recycled wool: First, the incoming textiles are sorted by wool content. Garments with at least 60% wool are taken into the production line and then sorted by color. Afterwards, the garments are cleaned of zippers and the like, then shredded, and finally about 10-15% recycled polyester from PET bottles is added to produce a new, stable and smooth yarn.

Buy recycled wool

On soul-wool.com there are three yarns that are recycled from used textiles. Such yarns are called Post-Human Fibers, and these are the Kremke Soul Wool yarns Reborn Wool, Reborn Denim uni and Reborn Denim colori. The Reborn Wool has a rather compact thread structure and is therefore perfect for knitting sculptural patterns - both for sweaters and jackets as well as for blankets and cushions. Our Reborn Denim is produced similarly to Reborn Wool. The yarn contains 85% recycled jeans, 10% cotton and 5% other fibers such as labels and sewing thread. The Kremke Karma Cotton is not recycled from worn clothing, but from yarn scraps and fabrics that were not used for clothing. The recycled cotton consists of 70% recycled cotton fibers and 30% recycled PET bottles.