Sustainability

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The Inhaakt Foundation attaches great importance to sustainability and wants to reflect this as much as possible in the choice of materials it uses.

The hand-dyed yarns use vegetable fibres (e.g. cotton) and/or (merino) wool.

Our hand-dyed cotton fibers:

The plant-based cotton fibers are hand-dyed in the Netherlands using procion dye, which is non-toxic and broken down by bacteria in the water. This makes it environmentally friendly. During this process, the artisan Dutch dyer uses clean rainwater as much as possible to minimize the ecological footprint.

Our hand-dyed mulesing-free (merino) wool:

Our hand-dyed (merino) wool, hand-dyed in the Netherlands, comes from mulesing-free sheep farmers and is hand-dyed in the Netherlands with professional acid dye.

This merino wool comes from various countries (Argentina, Uruguay, and Europe—not Australia), and none of the merino fibers come from farms where mulesing is practiced. This (merino) wool is therefore mulesing-free.

These wool strands are dyed with acid dyes in an environmentally friendly way, after which they are carefully washed in unscented wool wash and wound into strands before we make our products from them.

As much as possible, the wool dyeing schedule is designed so that the dye baths can be reused multiple times per session, thus reducing the environmental impact here as well.

Use of nylon

For durability and wear resistance, our sock wool contains a certain percentage of nylon, as stated in the product description.

Stichting ingehaakt uses several varieties of hand-dyed melusing-free (merino) wool.

- A variant with: - 75% mulesing-free (merino) wool

- 25% nylon

- A variant with: - 85% melusing-free (merino) wool

- 15% nylon

- A variant with - 85% melusing-free (merino) wool

- 15% biodegradable nylon

The composition of the hand-dyed wool used is stated with each hand-dyed (wool) product.