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Uncanny Valley | WIRED cover image

Our Clothes Are Making Us Sick

Uncanny Valley | WIRED

CHAPTER

The Future of Textiles

There's this brand of cotton called Fox fiber by Sally Fox. It's actually just a heritage cotton that grows in different colors. So you don't even have to dye it. There's also some companies working on non toxic finishes and ways to impart performance to textiles without using toxic chemicals. Some European mostly outdoor brands do physical directional weave to their fabrics so that the water just sort of beads up and rolls off instead of having to apply this toxic PFAS durable water repellent.

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