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Recycled cotton canvas, 12 oz
Softer and slightly heavier in the hand than virgin 12 oz, with a fuzzy surface and a visible slub wherever the respun yarn was joined. It feels more like linen than like a crisp canvas, and the shade is never perfectly uniform across a run.
| Best for | Totes with a natural, slightly irregular look, pouches where a soft hand matters, and programmes where the recycled fibre is the message rather than a perfect surface. |
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| Limits | Recycled yarn is shorter-staple and breaks more often, so the weave carries small knots and slubs — a clean, even face is not what this material does. Strength at the same weight is below virgin cotton, so a load-bearing seam needs a heavier weight or a lining behind it. It cannot be dyed to an exact Pantone across lots, and any recycled-content statement depends on the spinner's documentation for that lot. |
Canvas at 12 oz woven from recycled cotton — mill offcuts and pre-consumer waste respun into yarn — for totes and pouches where a recycled fibre matters more than a perfectly even surface.
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