Trademark label which uses recycled raw materials, renewable and compostable fibre types or high content wool fabrics which are climate neutral through CO2 offsets.
Waste
Fabric selvedges and yarn remnants are downcycled into insulation materials but Camira are also working on upcycling them back into yarn and then into fabric. Cropped wool fibres are used as animal bedding on local farms, cardboard and plastic yarn cones and packaging are returned to suppliers for re-use, and reduced packaging to cut down on waste for customers. After working with an environmental consultancy, by the end of 2011 roughly 85% of the waste had been re-used or recycled.
Corporate Social Resposibility
Camira believe in investing time and resources into putting something back. They are an active sponser of Huddersfield charity Kirkwood Hospice having raise in excess of £20,000. Having strong links with local schools, colleges and universities, Camira are active in the Business Languages Champions Project and collaborate with universities and under-graduate and post-graduate levels.
Custom Made Fabrics
A lot of the design work is client specific. Textile designers use the latest textile design software and can send a "lab-dip" of a newly dyed fabric or a life like CAD print out or "tie-in" of a new colour woven design.
Fingerprint
This is a digitally printed fabric service. It is personal and individual allowing high definition imagery to be printed onto fabrics.
Hints and Tips When Choosing Fabrics
With so many fabrics to choose from, where on earth do you start other than with a particular colour or design? Well, here are a few other things to think about when you're choosing fabrics for interior projects:
1. Think carefully about the type of furniture and where it's going. The furniture logos on swatch cards indicate task chairs, soft seating, or desk screens and panels.
2. What's the fabric composition? The key split is between natural fibres and man-made synthetics. There are environmental, performance and pricing implications of the raw material type.
3. For elite environmental fabrics look for the Second Nature label, signalling recycled raw materials, renewable & compostable fibres, or climate neutral.
4. Be careful about flammability performance - cigarette and match are the lower level basic FR standards for seating (sometimes termed Low Hazard) while Crib 5 offers higher fire security for public areas (also called Medium Hazard).
5. And don't get too hung up on the Martindale abrasion numbers - all fabrics meet severe contract abrasion performance and come with a comprehensive guarantee of wearability.
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