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World’s first T-shirt dyed using black algae
March 1st, 2023
Living Ink has created a black dye using algae, allowing Vollebak to create the first T-shirt dyed with algae. Photo: Vollebak / Sun Lee Carbon black, a pigment derived from petroleum, is commonly used to create black for everything from clothing and phones to cars and ink. It comes from tracts of land called tar […]
Start-up makes hemp clothing
September 1st, 2022
Photo: Vollebak London-based high-tech clothing startup Vollebak has just launched hoodies and sweatpants made entirely out of hemp and black algae. Carbon black, a pigment derived from petroleum, is “one of the most harmful yet invisible substances on the planet,” the company says. It will replace this with color made from black algae, which grows […]