Learn more about reclaimed cotton here! It's more than just cotton!

West Paw Design has a new sweater line, Reknitz, which uses reclaimed cotton Reknitz™.

You've been told over and over to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. With Reclaimed Cotton you get the chance to Reduce, Reduce, Reduce, Reduce, Reuse, Reuse... all at once!

Reclaimed Cotton reduces a lot - from waste, to chemicals and fertilizers, to the need for additional water. When a cotton T-shirt is made, there is a significant amount of extra cotton left over. In the past these remnant pieces of cotton fabric were incinerated or simply sent to landfills. Through a process of collecting the cotton, cleaning and separating it into raw fibers, we are able to make a new premium product without having to use any additional water, fertilizers, insecticides, or even farmland.

FACT: According to idealbite.com, cotton crops account for as much as 25% the world's insecticides. Combined with the large amounts of water cotton growers need to use every year, that's a lot of reducing!

Since Reclaimed Cotton fibers already exist, we are reusing a resource our society has already devoted time and energy toward. These cotton fibers were originally manufactured into sheets of fabric to make human clothing. These pre-consumer textile remnants are top quality, but simply cut too small to make another article of clothing. The Cotton is cleaned and separated into raw fibers by color, and then blended with 24% new acrylic fibers and spun into yarn. What's more is that the fibers are not re-dyed, but the careful mixing of the colored fibers allows us to reuse the existing dye on the fibers and creates the eye-catching color palette.

Reclaim. Reuse. Reduce. Rejoice.
West Paw Design.