{"id":311,"date":"2018-02-07T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-02-13T04:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T04:32:56","slug":"shoddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/shoddy.html","title":{"rendered":"Shoddy"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/p>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nShoddy<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nToday, this word often means poor quality, poor
\nworkmanship.  <\/span>However, the term \u201cshoddy\u201d
\nis actually a textile term.  <\/span>Callaway
\nTextile Dictionary defines it as wool fibers that have been made into yarn or
\nfabrics, torn apart and made ready for use again\u201d. This is made possible with
\nthe use of a \u201cshoddy or rag picker\u201d, a machine for tearing apart wool rags ,
\nclippings, etc., reducing the to a fibrous condition suitable for carding.  <\/span>The machine consists of a pair of strong,
\nfluted feed rolls between which the material is slowly passed to be acted upon
\nby a large, rapidly rotating cylinder studded with sharp pointed steel teeth or
\nspikes.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn the field of recycling this is what happens to fabrics
\ntoo worn or damaged to be used again in their present state.  <\/span>A commentary by Adam Minter in the Santa Fe
\nNew Mexican, Monday, January 22, 2018, \u201cNo One Wants the World\u2019s Used Clothes\u201d,
\ncites the fate of  <\/span>over 200
\nmanufacturing plants in Paniput, India which for decades was the world\u2019s
\nlargest recycler of woolen garments, a $4 billion trade in used-clothing.<\/div>\n
\nThe shoddy was made into cheap blankets for disaster relief,
\nmaking over 100,000 blankets each day.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nWhat would seem to be a good, as well as worthwhile solution
\nto the glut of useable, but unwanted, fibers has hit an economic snag.  <\/span>Minter estimated that between 2000 and
\n2015, global production of clothing had doubled, however the average number of
\ntimes the clothing was actually worn declined by 36 percent.  <\/span>This appears to be good news for the shoddy
\nrecyclers.  <\/span>Enter the Chinese
\nmanufacturers.  <\/span>It seems that using
\nmodern techniques, the Chinese could produce more blankets, in various colors,
\nselling the new polar fleece blankets for $2.50 (the recycled blankets retailed
\nfor $2.00).  <\/span>So now, Panipat is changing.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThe crux of this environmental disaster is that even with
\nproduction of shoddy at its highest peak there would still be a growing deluge
\nof used clothing entering the market. 
\n<\/span>Now, with cheap, new fabrics available,  <\/span>textile manufacturers are attempting solutions by creating new
\nfibers from recycled materials.  <\/span>This is
\na long process and quite a challenge.<\/div>\n

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Shoddy Today, this word often means poor quality, poor workmanship.  However, the term \u201cshoddy\u201d is actually a textile term.  Callaway Textile Dictionary defines it as wool fibers that have been made into yarn or fabrics, torn apart and made ready for use again\u201d. This is made possible with the use of a \u201cshoddy or rag…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}