{"id":559,"date":"2023-12-15T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=559"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:01:29","slug":"yarn-re-spun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/12\/15\/yarn-re-spun\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarn Re-spun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">I use a lot of yarn and other fibers. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">It would be really interesting to see the acrylic yarn I use turned into new yarn or stuffing for other projec<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">ts I work on.<\/span> <span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">It wouldn\u2019t take much to make this work because yarn can be broken down and turned into new fiber pretty easily.<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\"> It would require fiber artists to send their scraps <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">back to yarn companies which would require all the colors to be mixed up. Though they would need to be separated by type because specialty<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\"> yarns <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">probably couldn\u2019t<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\"> be recycled in the same manor. With normal acrylic fiber it would just take the separation of those fibers<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">, <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">possibly the<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\"> bleaching and dying<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">, the washing, and then <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">re<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">&#8211;<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">pinning<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\"> to turn them into new yarn. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW215471018 BCX4\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW215471018 BCX4\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use a lot of yarn and other fibers. It would be really interesting to see the acrylic yarn I use turned into new yarn or stuffing for other projects I work on. It wouldn\u2019t take much to make this work because yarn can be broken down and turned into new fiber pretty easily. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}