Faering Ltd
We are a small digital printer with a niche expertise in the digital printing of wool and cashmere. We print both garments and fabric. These are mostly either knitwear or heavy woven wools for outerwear. We are just moving beyond start-up, having been trading about 3 years now.
We set up the company to demonstrate new, more sustainable business models that digital print makes possible, such as agile (e.g. make on demand, customisation, ultra-low MOQ) and circular (e.g. over-printing of dead stock, upcycling and re-invention of garments). Digital print also enables more eco-efficient production by printing rather than dyeing and distressing e.g. faux-distressed denim jeans
I personally have a lot of research and consulting expertise in textile reuse and recycling, with about 25 projects completed in that area. I am the current chair of the programme board of Mistra Future Fashion, which is the world’s largest research programme in sustainable fashion and is funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA). This takes a cross-disciplinary, system-led approach to design, recycling, supply chain and consumption, with about 8 research partners and about 50 industrial partners.
- Listing ID: 708
- Contact: Nicholas Morley
- What are your aspirations and plans for the future?: To achieve profitability for our start-up business. To demonstrate how new more sustainable supply chain formats may be profitably implemented. To grow the business to the capacity of our current site.
- What types of projects are you interested in working on through Future Fashion Factory?: Recycling and reuse, particularly upcycling and re-invention of wool or cotton based garments and fabrics; creation of digital denim as an alternative to traditional dyed and distressed garments; digitally printed leather for fashion apparel; digital printing of difficult to print wool garments and fabrics, for example very thick or dimensionally unstable fabrics; on-demand and customised garment supply; design collaborations that explore the potential of digital print, for example with worsted wool fabric.