Gainsborough partners with AO Textiles to offer a natural plant-based dyeing service
Gainsborough and AO Textiles collaborate to offer sustainable bespoke jacquard woven textiles dyed with natural plant-based colour, including weld, chestnut, madder and logwood. The partnership will be launched at the Sustainable Angle Future Fabrics Expo in London on the 26th of June 2023.
Gainsborough and AO Textiles collaborate to offer a unique service combining a natural dye colour consultancy with bespoke jacquard woven textile production.
Together they have developed techniques that revive heritage alongside modern production methods; in particular, the use of natural plant-based colours for contemporary textile production. All production, from dyeing the yarn to weaving the fabric, is done in-house. The partnership has established that colour sourced from sustainable botanicals, including madder, weld and chestnut, can play a part in circular 21st century textile production, making an environmentally conscious move away from the synthetic petroleum-based colours common in textile manufacture today. The fabrics are created using naturally derived colour that are scalable, repeatable, and of the quality demanded by industry. 1/3 The plants include :
WELD - creates bright yellows as seen in our palette colour but can also be used to create light and dark green.
CHESTNUT - Chestnut produces a range of soft brown colours. The chestnut extract they source is from Occitanie and is produced sustainably by KINGTREE, in the Haut Languedoc Regional Natural Park. The dye is obtained from natural regrowth of chestnut wood (Castanea sativa Mill). Vegetable tannins (ellagic tannins) are extracted using wood water and concentration, therefore in a closed loop without water consumption or effluents. A good example of co-recovery since the extracted wood is then used to manufacture building biomaterials.
MADDER - is sourced from the roots of the madder plant and creates anything from a dark rusty red to subtle pale pinks.
LOGWOOD - The heartwood of Haematoxylum campechianum. Logwood can be used to create a variety of colours from deep, rich, red-purples to orchid blues.
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