Journal

MANIFESTO FOR A FASHION REVOLUTION

FASHION REVOLUTION WEEK 22ND - 29TH APRIL 2023 The theme for this year's Fashion Revolution Week is "MANIFESTO FOR A FASHION REVOLUTION". We at Kalopsia have always been re-imagining how a...

KALOPSIA ATTENDING BUSINESS IN PARLIAMENT CONFERENCE

Kalopsia’s Managing Director Adam Robertson got invited by Shirley-Anne Somerville from the Scottish National Party on the 2nd of February 2023 to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Hosted joi...

INNOVATIVE TEXTILES MANUFACTURING

From hosting Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy launch, as part of The Scottish Government’s strategy: Making Things Last campaign in 2016 to talking at the British Antarctic Survey in Camb...

TEXTILES WASTE DISGUISED AS SECOND-HAND

IS DONATING YOUR UNWANTED CLOTHES THE BEST SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION? It’s the time of the year, it's a new year, a new start. A time when many of us have a good clear out of our wardrobe. Many of ...

INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE SCOTTISH TEXTILES

WE ARE TRULY OVER THE MOON TO SHARE THE NEWS THAT WE AT KALOPSIA, TOGETHER WITH THE HELP FROM SCOTTISH COMMUNITIES FINANCE, ARE LOOKING TO RAISE £100K TO HELP SECURE INVESTMENT FOR OUR NEW JOUR...

REVISED SIZING

Rebekah started with us in January and a week into working here she was given the massive task of grading all our products from XS - XL, this in total was a crazy fourteen designs and sleeves. W...

THE VALUE IN REPURPOSE

 As much as we love coffee, we need to dispose of our "waste" in environmentally conscious way. Coffee sacks are made from the Jute plant, an eco-friendly material with the strength to hold vast...

ARE YOU BUYING A GREEN LIE?

Greenwashing is the practice of making an unsubstantiated or misleading claim about the environmental benefits of a product, service, or company practice and can make a company appear to be mo...

COP26

The United Nations Climate Change Conference 2021 is set to start on 31st of October 2021 in Glasgow. With so many of the worlds leaders coming together so close to home it's time for us all to as...

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT TEXTILES WASTE.

Recently we posted about how all of our future textiles waste was going to be recycled! (Or at the very least be burnt for energy). We were excited about this, very excited. For years we had been ...