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SAGES and Osmose in Dezeen
Food-waste dyes bring colour to mycelium leather in Sages and Osmose project
Our Innovate UK funded project with Osmose Studio and Cranfield University exploring how to colour leather with natural dyes has been featured in Dezeen. Read more HERE.
Winners!
SAGES win best SEIS investee Company of the Year at the EISA Awards!
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) has revealed the winners of the 18th annual EISA Awards, which honour exceptional achievements in the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) community. Read more HERE
SAGES Feature: Colour Compass
A reflection on the commercialisation of botanical dyes by Jenny Clark
A recent visit to Future Fabric Expo encouraged me to reflect on the progress of botanical dyes as a viable alternative to petroleum-based colourants. Over the last six years, the artisan dye movement has evolved into a commercially viable, sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes.
Read more HERE
SAGES Feature: Create What's Next
From the Lab: Sages
Winners!
Judges crown SAGES as LCF Enterprise Challenge 2022 winners
The first-place winners of the 2022 Enterprise Challenge Award are duo Alice Simpson, MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear), and Emily Taylor, MA Fashion Futures, for their pitch on SAGES a company creating natural dyes derived from food waste products.
Read more HERE
SAGES Feature: Shift London
Fashion rooted in nature-_SHIFT
In its Future Innovations 2022 macro forecast, trend forecasting site WGSN reports: “Biodesign will give rise to a new value chain of materials and processes.” Nature will play an integral part both as both a contributor to, and beneficiary of, the fashion industry.
_shift caught up with several fashion innovators working with nature for nature.
Read more HERE
SAGES Feature: Eyes on Talent
Alice Simpson, MA Fashion Design Technology (Menswear), and Emily Taylor, MA Fashion Futures, won this year competition with their project SAGES, a textile industry start-up that offers a natural and sustainable alternative to the synthetic fabric dyes
Read more HERE
SAGES Feature: Anne Prahl Blog
Towards a circular, plastic-free and regenerative fabrics future -Innovation in Textiles
Anne Prahl reviews the 10th Future Fabrics Expo, held recently in London. The 10th Future Fabrics Expo, held on the 28th and 29th of June in London, presented an extensive selection of commercially available fabrics to provide alternatives to conventional high environmental impact materials.
Read more HERE
SAGES Feature: Architonic
Dutch Design Week presents the future of product design
Offering a vision of the future with changing needs and material availability, Dutch Design Week’s exhibiting designers present possible answers on how to create more, with less.
Read more HERE