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Introducing Wool Library, a group of four foundational wool textiles that deliver all the benefits of wool as a biobased material with expert weaving in Italy to deliver high quality and performance paired with a soft, luxurious hand. These four weave constructions bring an abundant 190 color options, created to be a staple in style and durability for a long time to come, just like your favorite sweater.
Known for its durability and longevity, wool fiber is biobased, biodegradable, and can also be recycled and reused in new products.
Styles
The collection’s four styles – Basket, Checker, Heather, and Micro Tweed – were each designed for flexibility and impact, and just like wool, are classics. Their individual personalities emerge when paired with Wool Library’s color palette, providing options from vibrant and bold to subtle neutrals. The Wool Library offers the perfect tonality for any project.
Color
Wool Library will become an essential part of your go-to working palette, bringing together sustainably sourced postconsumer recycled wool with an abundance of color and texture with which to mix, match, and experiment.
Sustainability
Checker, Basket, and Micro Tweed each contain a high content (70%) of post-consumer recycled material from the fashion industry. Reutilizing discarded wool garments to create new yarn preserves resources and places less stress on the environment. These three products can contribute to the LEED Materials and Resources credit for recycled content and have been certified by the mill to GRS, the Global Recycled Standard 4.0. This collection is free of added chemistry including finishes, PFAS, flame retardants, and antimicrobials.
“The craft that the suppliers bring to the recycling process is impressive, I love that you can see the evidence of the raw materials in each heathered yarn.”
Process
Discarded, reclaimed, gathered clothing is sorted by fiber, color, content, and quality. The garments are broken back down into colorful fibers that are washed, blended together, and spun into a new yarn. These fiber blended yarns are woven and finely milled into soft, deeply colored new fabric for upholstery. For Wool Library, this process occurs in Prato, Italy, which has a long history of recycling clothing from the fashion industry dating back to the 12th century.
Wool is a natural fiber derived from the fleece or coat of sheep. Wool’s inherent characteristics make it a sustainable choice for textiles. It is rapidly-renewable resource (sheep can be shorn annually!) and the fiber is biodegradable and recyclable.
Recycled Wool is a natural fiber reusing wool waste. Recycling wool and using discarded wool waste preserves resources (less sheep need to be raised- so there is less grazing and land use for that practice if wool is re-used).
In the case of these Designtex wool styles, the recycled wool is “Post consumer” because it comes from discarded wool clothing waste being recycled into new fiber. This fiber has been 3rd party verified to document its chain of custody as legitimate post-consumer recycled wool, and certified to the GRS Global Recycled Standard.
The Global Recycled Standard (GRS) is a supply chain traceability standard for tracking and verifying the content of recycled materials in a final product.
