Get Ready to Dye
Dyeing is so in Fashion!
Every autumn, after London Fashion Week, follows Sustainable Fashion Week with regional hubs all over the UK offering free and informative events on our industry.
Our Fab-u-lous Founder Anna jumped the train up to a workshop in East Anglia - the home base of our very first Mozzie Cozzie prototype - to witness in real life natural dye-ing in action! As you can see, our licensed and fully traceable cloth - 100% TENCEL™ Lyocell fibers by Lenzing AG - took well to the application of natural dye derived from pumpkin seeds and eucalyptus leaves. What’s more so, these cloth fibers are the regenerated natural raw material wood of a fast-growing eucalyptus - completing a circle!
This SFW workshop was held at the at the highly acclaimed Norwich University of the Arts.
We also discovered a spooky tale: Norwich is where the process of natural dyeing really used to turn the river (Wensum) red!
Madder, a plant grown in the UK was used to dye cloth - named beautifully as Norwich Red. All manner of plants were used back in the medieval day to dye beautiful and valuable cloths.
Fast forward to today and there are many workshops springing up on how to dye cloth in natural ways. If you fancy learning on a farm stay there are classes held in the country too.
SFW includes screening films addressing today’s fashion industry alongside its workshops held in educational, cultural and industry spaces. Here is the programme if you missed it…to be continued end September - early October, 2026.
One film we know well, Fashion Reimagined showed again in London last week. We hear there are more films concentrating on the origin of what we put on our body in terms of clothing coming out of the closet very soon…
Meanwhile, Mozzie Cozzie knows our origins, hit contact us if you want to know more about our dye and print on-on-demand process.
We see the UK government readying businesses for the new Digital Product Passports starting next April for goods sold in the EU.
We predict things are going to be getting eco-sexy with EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) for fully transparent and traceable textiles.
Something to think on before you write that end of year gift list or forecast your new year resolutions.
Are you thinking which pocket best suits your own passport into the future? Over 80% of UK consumers already want transparency around product origins (FT Future of Retail Summit, 2025).
Mozzie Cozzie is one of those freeing outfits with really good pockets - perhaps all you really need to strut your sustainable stuff!
Now that’s a trick and a treat!
Happy Halloween tonight …and Happy Dyeing!
Mozzie Cozzie says, pumpkin seeds can dye too!