Posted on 02/05/2017 3:12:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
Innovation and caring for the environment are two traits often associated with the Swedes, and the latest creation from a Swedish outdoor brand attempts to combine both by making a jacket comprised of the unlikely materials of beans, wood and nuts. Tierra claim their new jacket is the first in the world comprised entirely of 100 percent plant-based materials since synthetic fossil-based polymers were invented and started to be used in clothing production in the early 1900s.
Whether that's true or not, it's certainly unusual sounding. The main outer material is made from a castor bean base described as resembling nylon, the buttons, from a tree, and the string from cotton. Proof the Swedes really are more concerned with the environment than most?
"In the Swedish textile industry we tend to be very well-informed and knowledgeable when it comes to the problems in textile production. In part because of our education, and in part because of the public debate on environmental problems here and the love of nature," Tierra head of product development Erik Isaksson told The Local.
"If you’re well-informed and dare to ask your supplier tough questions about the circumstances the product is produced in, and where the raw materials come from, you get a more complete picture of the entire chain and find it easier to make choices about where to produce things, and which materials should be used," he added.
The jacket will soon be sold in Sweden, so a general public which knows a thing or two about the cold will be able to test whether it really is capable of withstanding a Swedish winter without anyone noticing it's made from plants, as its creators suggest. The idea is to use it as a platform to continue developing more new materials and sustainable solutions in the future.
But not everyone shares the Swedish obsession with sustainability, the developer admits:
"We often get comments from our foreign suppliers along the lines of 'Bah! It's only you Scandinavian brands who ask about that'. I see that as something good though, that Scandinavian brands are helping each other to change the industry."
They’re frightened to death to make a jacket out of bacon and pork rinds.
Hopefully this peculiar new Swedish jacket is bullet and machete and bomb proof. Do Swedish people can survive the imported - Islamics’ attacks on them.
I’m sure the Muslim hordes in their midst are worried about the environment.
If you have cellulose, you can make Rayon, which we have been able to do since the 1890’s. This is is simply gas-light era chemistry
It’s a nice looking jacket; but I like wool, cotton, linen, silk....
Tierra claim their new jacket is the first in the world comprised entirely of 100 percent plant-based materials...
What about Cotten?
It will probably attract rodents.
Nice shell...
Do NOT go moose hunting in this jacket!
Maybe Gaga will be wearing this Meat Dress today during Super Bowl Halftime. It would serve them right for booking her.
Never realized she had matching boots too. Yuck!
People starving....and they make clothes. As stupid as using corn for gasoline.
Most likely. Alot of wiring insulation in newer vehicles is made with vegetable byproducts. It’s like a salad bar for rodents.
Good point. And for the love of Pete, don’t ever get one for your sister.
They’re probably referring to mass-produced cold-weather outerwear, which usually does have synthetic components now.
I have a Caterpillar jacket that’s entirely synthetic; the warmest parka-type thing I’ve ever owned.
Yep. That’s exactly why I figured they’ll go after these jackets as well...
Those almost look like my snowboots that I bought from LL Bean.
Elk hide is plant based
Henry Ford took a stab at soy-plant and hemp fibers for clothing. Got sidelined by cheap oil-based fabrics that wore better, before he could fix the shortcomings.
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