Traceable Spanish cotton on offer from Pyratex
Pyratex, a Madrid-based company founded in 2014 to offer natural alternatives to synthetic textiles, is launching a new, traceable cotton initiative.
It said it had been working on the new cotton programme for three years, calling it Soleá in celebration of Flamenco music.
Inspired by the ‘zero-kilometre’ food movement, Pyratex said the project involves cotton that it can trace back to 400 hectares of cotton fields in the provinces of Seville and Cordoba.
All of the cotton in the Soleá project is grown, harvested and ginned in those parts of southern Spain. It then goes across the border to Portugal for spinning and knitting.
Pyratex said its business development team was now working to convince apparel brands to incorporate garments made with 100% Spanish cotton into their collections.
