Moogie Printed fabric

All original Moogie printed fabric is sourced from Next State Print, and made from all natural plant based fabrics. These natural fabrics, are much more breathable for your skin (and of course better for our planet!) as opposed to synthetic and polyester based fabric options which often use toxic chemicals in their manufacturing process, which can leach into the water via your washing machine along with tiny microfibre plastics.

Next State Print is a Melbourne based fabric printing agency, accredited by Ethical Clothing Australia for value adding services, such as textile printing, onto Australian made TCF Products. This means their entire Australian Supply chain has been audited and compliance checked to make sure all obligations to workers are being met from a financial and wellbeing perspective. Next State uses direct digital printing to send a file from a computer to print onto a fabric. This process uses a water based Pigment Ink to print directly onto fabric which is bonded by heat and pressure to the fibre, with no need for any water and no left over ink as waste product.

To read more about Next States ethics and sustainability policies click here

SeCOND HAND AND DEADSTOCK FABRICS

Any other fabrics are either up cycled from old garments and household homewares, sourced from local op shops or are dead stock sourced from Australian dead stock fabric suppliers.

I try to avoid using any synthetic or polyester blends when sourcing second hand or dead stock fabrics, however I will occasionally work with one if the the colour/drape/texture particularly grabs me.

Dead stock suppliers include: Circular Sourcing & The Fabric Store

FABRIC WASTE AND SMALL BATCH COLLECTIONS

Moogie will release 2 small print collections a year, to feature across a core collection of 5 garments, designed as a capsule wardrobe. Each new collection will include up to 5 editons of each garment in its various print options in a store drop twice a year. In addition to this core collection I will continue experimenting and exploring other garment designs, using a mix of both Moogie printed fabrics, up cycled old clothing and dead stock fabrics. These peices may sometimes feature as one off items in the shop, or swapped/added into the core collection.

Keeping the collection releases so small, while employing a made to measure ordering system avoids any waste product, while minimising fabric offcuts/leftovers. I try to keep all my fabric offcuts to reuse as accessories, patch-worked garments or stuffing. I am also looking into working with collaborators to send my scrap pieces to, to reuse.