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Sustainable yarns contribute to Salvatore Ferragamo Museum exhibition

01/05/2019
An exhibition called Sustainable Thinking opened at the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence in mid-April and will run until March 2020. It displays materials that honour the environmental philosophy of the famous designer after whom the museum is named, with the organisers saying Salvatore Ferragamo was “an eco-designer before the term was invented”.

Among the technical textile contributions to the exhibition are fabrics from Clerici Tessuto and from Maglificio Ripa that use yarns from Fulgar.

Clerici Tessuto exhibits include a fabric with 87% of the yarn mix coming from Fulgar’s Evo bio-based yarn, a product made from castor oil. Fulgar argues that the fact that the castor bean is not a food crop, grows naturally and does not need large amounts of water or land enhance its environmental credentials.

For its part, Maglificio Ripa has submitted for the exhibition a fabric that contains 89% Q-Nova, a fibre that Fulgar obtains exclusively from regenerated raw materials and made using mechanical rather than chemical processes. 


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