What is regenerated cashmere

What is recycled cashmere

Recycled cashmere is obtained from production scraps and old garments from which new yarns are obtained with which to make new products.

Recycled cashmere is obtained by recycling the cashmere fiber, recovering it from old garments.

The material passes through a hand-made sorting where impurities are removed; they are then selected by color, then frayed, which reduces this waste into small pieces through a carding process.

Finally, the recycled fiber is twisted to be strengthened, until it is transformed into a totally new yarn.

It is a sustainable production model, which embraces the principles of the circular economy and fashion and allows for the production of quality cashmere with little impact on the environment.

 

So why choose recycled cashmere?

Because it's a way to help reverse the trend of fast fashion, guaranteeing quality artisan knitwear that is responsible and accessible to all.

Recycled cashmere maintains all the properties of the virgin one, with the advantage of recovering various textile waste and above all of significantly reducing consumption:

• - 67% water consumption
• - 68% electricity consumption
• - 85% carbon dioxide consumption

The affordable price derives from energy saving, which is a cost equivalent to 1/3 of virgin cashmere.

Circular economy

Lagraste embraces circular fashion: the collaboration with Rifò is born, an Italian company that uses textile waste by transforming it into new garments.

The textile industry becomes a circular, ethical and sustainable economy.

From waste to a new resource.

 

You can contribute to the circular economy too

In our Store you will find the Rifò Circular Service Box, where you can give your old wool or cashmere sweaters so that they become a new resource.

We will send them to the company, where they will be divided by color and material, to then be transformed into regenerated yarns!

There will be a discount voucher for you that can be used on a new purchase from the Rifò company.

Read more here.

The collection of wool and cashmere