All Blog Posts Tagged 'eco' (75)

Creative Christmas Stocking!

Get creative and customise your very own Christmas stocking with designers' leftover fabrics.  We have tones of reclaimed fabrics that are waiting to be rescued, reused and remade into festive stockings. http://bit.ly/S7Uvec

Appliqué beautiful letters, create Christmas…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 28, 2012 at 10:33 — No Comments

Get Eco Fabric Vouchers On Your Christmas Wish List!

Great for students worrying about funding their creations, and perfect for us crafty folk who want to splash out on something we wouldn't normally! We'll even send it out in a gorgeously, sparkly Christmas card with a message to the recipient.



Limited availability, so get your request in quickly!…



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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 27, 2012 at 11:35 — No Comments

Don't forget the United Nations Climate Conference today!

The United Nations Climate Conference serves as a meeting for political parties…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 26, 2012 at 10:54 — No Comments

FABRIC LOVE | Tons of New, Ethical, High Performance Fabrics!

Our ultra amazing, new, high performance tested fabrics are the best of the best. The fabrics are perfect for interiors, upholstery and fashion, and the vibrant colour choice is another added bonus to this supreme quality range.



How about this gorgeous Monarch in…
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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 21, 2012 at 12:00 — No Comments

LAST SPACES: KEY SKILLS FOR INFORMED DESIGN | Two days away!

Don't miss your chance to book the last of our Key Skills for Informed Design seminars this Thursday!

 

 

The seminar will cover a whole range of subjects, skills and core information needed for designing in an environmentally safe and socially…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 20, 2012 at 14:55 — No Comments

CALL FOR CLIMATE CHANGE | Everyone's going green!

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Doha, Qatar, starts Monday 26th November - a week today!

Forest protection, sustainability and carbon emissions are just a few of the topics that will be discussed, and just a few of the things that we are deeply passionate about here at Offset…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 19, 2012 at 11:00 — No Comments

Know why silk isn't vegetarian? What does a red Leicester yarn look like? What are the benefits of sublimation printing versus screen printing? Why can't you machine wash wool? Do you know how to han…

Know why silk isn't vegetarian? What does a red Leicester yarn look like? What are the benefits of sublimation printing…
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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 15, 2012 at 11:15 — No Comments

FABRIC LOVE | Someone please give these little fabrics a home!

Yesterday we were going crazy over our new pink bamboo fabric but lets not forget our reclaimed and offcuts! Designers gave us these leftover fabrics to find them a new home! Just look at how gorgeous this Scarlet Red Satin is!http://bit.ly/XEZCYc



Visit our OFFCUTS/RECLAIMED…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 14, 2012 at 16:27 — No Comments

Diggin' Design Present their Christmas Winter Fair

Sunday 2nd  December 2012 

10.30am – 6.00pm

 

£2.00 Admission or £1.50 Concession…

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Added by Ethical Fashion Forum on November 14, 2012 at 15:30 — No Comments

FABRIC LOVE | It's new, pink & it's Bamboo!

We are going crazy for this Organic Cotton & Bamboo fabric in shade Rose, It has a beautifuly subtle lustre and a wonderful handle. Oh and keep an eye out for the blood-orange shade too, its just gorgeous!

Added by Offset Warehouse on November 13, 2012 at 12:42 — No Comments

ORGANIC COTTON | Some little fashion facts

Cotton is farmed in around 90 countries worldwide and Organic cotton is farmed in around 22 counties worldwide. For cotton to be considered truly 'organic' with an organic symbol it has to be verified by independent certification bodies that check the standards of production and manufacturing. 

 

The biggest benefit of Organic cotton is to ensure cotton farmers get fair pay for their work as well as better working standards. Regular Cotton uses pesticides to ensure no nasty…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 6, 2012 at 15:13 — No Comments

Eco Fashion straight from the Prison

WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR T-SHIRT FROM? - prison 



Heavy Eco takes the the shiny green world and combines it with brutal reality of Eastern European inmates to form one-of-a-kind eco fashion collections.



Can bad people do good? Is ethical always…

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Added by Ethical Fashion Forum on November 5, 2012 at 17:31 — No Comments

LAST CHANCE| Global Sourcing & Manufacturing tickets this Friday - reduced from £65 to £40!

Global Sourcing & Manufacturing tickets: …

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Added by Offset Warehouse on November 5, 2012 at 10:51 — No Comments

KEY DESIGN SKILLS SEMINAR LECTURER: Zoe Fletcher

Photo of Zoe attempting shearing! She then watched that wool being processed and spun locally before it was made up into her designs - and she's keen to share all of her knitting experiences this Friday!





"The structure of the talk organised by Offset is fantastic - I wish there…
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Added by Offset Warehouse on October 31, 2012 at 10:23 — No Comments

TOP UP SAMPLES | Just £3.99 for 12 samples!

Did you buy one of our UK Sample Books before October 2012? Purchase our 'top up' fabric samples to add to your previous sample books:…
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Added by Offset Warehouse on October 30, 2012 at 11:00 — No Comments

GET THE LOOK | Faux-fur pillarbox hat!

If there's one thing trendsetters aren't going without this chilly season, it's the faux fur hat!

From classic and glamorous styles to traditional Russian Cossack, not only are they awesome (and very warm!) they are really easy to make.…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on October 24, 2012 at 8:58 — No Comments

OFFSET COLLECTIVE EVENT

Looking for fresh ideas and more ways to manufacture your designs? Offset are hosting another free collective event in London THIS THURSDAY!





This free event is exclusively for all you designers to get honest opinions from your fashion peers and answers to all those nightmares: from fabric sourcing problems, cheap marketing ideas and…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on October 23, 2012 at 9:29 — No Comments

WANTED: UNWANTED TEXTILES | Fabrics piling up in your cupboards? About to throw them away?

STOP!



Send them to Offset Warehouse and we’ll find them a wonderful new home!

Every year 1.5 million tons of clothes and textiles go to landfill in Britain. This means 9500 garments are thrown into landfill every five minutes. That is the equivalent of every one in four garments sold.



While every…
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Added by Offset Warehouse on October 22, 2012 at 9:30 — No Comments

Livia Firth and the BFC partner for the Sustainable City Awards

Green queen Livia Firth and the British Fashion Council have teamed up to support the Sustainable Fashion Award, the Sustainable City Awards' newest category.

Livia Firth at the 2012 Golden Globe Awards in her Green Carpet Challenge gown designed by…

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Added by Ethical Fashion Forum on October 19, 2012 at 13:09 — No Comments

Free Event for Ethical Designers - Next Thursday 25th October!

OFFSET COLLECTIVE EVENT | Free event for ethical designers next Thursday!



From fibre sourcing problems to customs & duties solutions, great marketing ideas and precious PR & sales contacts, the Offset Warehouse Collective event is the perf
ect opportunity to meet and talk with other ethical designers.

We'll be bringing along a range of fabrics that you can purchase in a group, so you can meet…

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Added by Offset Warehouse on October 17, 2012 at 7:03 — No Comments

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