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WOW Felt (Waste of Wool Felt)

A new more circular and cleaner material

WOW Felt is a nonwoven wool felt from textile waste of wool’s industry (residual fibers in textile combing and weaving selvages), to consumers of socio-environmental responsibility, regardless to gender, age or stratum (low cost), and to textile industry that wants to create a cleaner and circular production line. The production makes the material sustainable & innovative, using waste from this industry, not adding virgin material, also using machinery known to the textile industry (nonwoven machine – needle punching; and felting machine), without new industrial processes or machines.


Company/Institution
University of Minho
Country
Portugal
Designer(s)
Regis Puppim; Patrícia Azambuja
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