Revolution Partnership
Revolution Performance Fabrics started with an idea to create fabrics that are durable, cleanable, soft to the touch, and completely made in the United States. That's right, no imported yarns! Revolution fabrics are completely woven in the United States, with upcycled fibers, in an environmentally conscious manner.
Brentwood Textiles is honored to partner with a performance fabric manufacturer, made in the USA, with PFC and chemical free upholstery fabrics . We combine our design team aesthetics with Revolution weaving technology to bring you something truly special in the Performance Upholstery Fabrics industry.
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Revolution Performance Fabrics® by Brentwood Textiles are true performance fabrics. Woven with Olefin yarn, the fabric is inherently stain resistant, durable, fade resistant, yet soft to the touch. Revolution Performance Fabrics® are made with upcycled fibers and have no chemical treatments making them easy on your home and easy on the environment
How Can a Synthetic Fabric Be Green?
UPCYCLING is the process of transforming byproducts, waste, and other trash into new and useful materials. Olefin is the only upcycled fiber available for making upholstery fabric.
Olefin is a byproduct of refining petroleum. For many years, it was discarded or simply burned off. The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was won by the scientists who discovered a use for this unique polymer.
Are Revolution® fibers greener than natural fibers?
Natural fibers like cotton, linen, and wool require lots of the earth’s most precious resources… WATER and LAND, which are used in large amounts in the production and dyeing of natural fibers. Olefin is dyed without the use of WATER and requires almost no LAND and WATER for its production.
Because it is produced from what was formerly waste, Olefin has by far the SMALLEST CARBON FOOTPRINT OF ANY UPHOLSTERY FIBER. (Source: Higg Index)
How fabrics stack up against other fibers
The Higg Index was created by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which includes Patagonia and the Natural Resources Defense Council. A look at how the Higg Index compares the environmental impact of materials used in apparel and footwear. The higher the score, the more sustainable the material. (Source: The Wall Street Journal)
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What are PFC chemicals?
PFC chemicals are used by other performance fabric brands to achieve cleanability. If water beads on a fabric, it has probably been treated with a PFC chemical. These substances are persistent in the environment. In fact, we all have them in our bodies and, they have even been discovered in the blood of whales.
STI discontinued the use of PFC chemicals in 2000 when we discovered the problems associated with them. We did this out of concern for our employees and customers who would be using or producing our fabrics.
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