A member of a local knitting group posted this announcement on their Facebook page: Asos plans to ban mohair, cashmere and silk from next year and noted in the comments that they hadn’t known that there were any animal welfare issues related to mohair. The question is not if animal welfare issues do exist. They do. …
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Being kind to the animals
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Pitti Filati
Last week I traveled to Florence for Pitti Filati. That’s a bi-annual business fair where the Italian spinning mills present their products to the fashion business and more specifically to the buyers of the big fashion companies. They’re the people who buy what is needed to make next season’s garments, from tissue over yarn to …
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