Visit to Poland
Ingvild and Lisbeth visited Poland the last week of June. The goal of the trip was knowledge transfer and during it, they held three workshops/seminars. At the University of Bielsko-Biala, teachers and pedagogy students were…
Local as a fashion change-maker
Hybrid event, 8th June 2022, 17:30-19:30 CET Online and at Sentralen, Oslo
Acoustic Performance of Sound Absorbing Materials Produced from Wool of Local Mountain Sheep
Katarzyna Kobiela-Mendrek, Marcin Bączek, Jan Broda, Monika Rom, Ingvild Espelien and Ingun Klepp Abstract Wool of mountain sheep, treated nowadays as a waste or troublesome byproduct of sheep husbandry, was used for the production of…
From burial urns to surfboards – wool can be used to make just about anything
Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg and Anna Schytte Sigaard. OPINION: There’s no such thing as bad wool, only bad use. In the Norwegian folk song Kråkevisa (The Crow Song), a man-made everything from a boat, to…
New book on local and sustainable clothes
Explores the importance of local practices in achieving global sustainability. This is a book about one fibre, wool, its role in the future of a more sustainable global textile industry, and a new approach to…
Woolume: Potential new products from vacant wool
Anna Schytte Sigaard, Lisbeth Løvbak Berg and Ingun Grimstad Klepp Summary This report gives an overview of the market for alternative wool products with the perceived potential to be made using vacant wool. The work…
Responsible Fashion: How do we make our ideas a reality?
Online Symposium hosted by Instituto Maragoni, London. 24th November 2021, 9:30am – 4:30pm GMT
WOOLUME: Mapping the market for acoustic and sound absorbing products made of wool
This report is the first deliverable from work package 2 of the WOOLUME project. The main goal of WOOLUME is to explore different ways of using wool from Polish Mountain Sheep to achieve better utilisation…
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