Over 85% of the raw materials used to make and ship 135.1 consist of perfectly good leftover, rejected, or discarded materials from large factories that would have otherwise made their way to landfills, eventually destroying our planet.
Material Rescue Details:
- Primary body fabric and inner lining – Upcycled denim and polyester from the excess stock
warehouse of a garments manufacturing company. - Woollen fusing reinforcement - Rescued from the same harness manufacturing company from
where we also sourced bits and pieces of safety harnesses which have been used as webbing across some of our bags. - Webbing 1.75 inch – Rescued bits and pieces of safety harness from an export manufacturer of
safety harnesses. - Zip – Leftovers from production runs across various factories.
- Pullers, Trims – Small, mismatched lots lying in various corners of manufacturing companies
across India - Thread – Leftover thread cones from garment/travel bags/ accessories manufacturers.
Fresh Materials:
- Fusing
- Fabric Reinforcement
