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Ryonet to Launch Apparel Line



March 30, 2017

Ryonet Corp., Vancouver, Wash., is teaming up with 10 textile screen-printing founding partners to create a new apparel line: Allmade.

The line is being launched in an effort to combat global challenges, including apparel workers earning less-than-living wages in sweatshops and pollution caused by the fashion industry.

Allmade’s initial styles will include a unisex T-shirt, a ladies’ crew-neck T-shirt and a ladies’ scoop V-neck. Each silhouette will be offered in United States-grown cotton and a tri-blend consisting of 50% Repreve polyester from recycled bottles/25% organic U.S.-grown cotton/25% Modal.

The cotton and polyester fibers used in Allmade shirts will be sourced, spun into yarn and woven in America, creating U.S. jobs and reducing shipping pollution.


Working in cooperation with the GO Exchange (GOEX)—which is a subsidiary of The Global Orphan Project (GO Project), a Kansas City-based, global community committed to caring for children and families in crisis) — all shirts will be cut and sewn in Haiti.

This project will pay the Haitian workers $16 a day, instead of the usual $3 a day, which will enable them to support family members. The factory will be operated by U.S. standards, offering training and development opportunities for workers to enable them to further increase their value and earn more money.

Ryan Moor, CEO, Ryonet, recently was featured on “Social Entrepreneur with Nathan Webster,” a weekly podcast, where he discussed the Allmade launch, how the project got started, how he is promoting it and the impact it will have.

Ryonet launched a crowdfunding campaign through Indiegogo on March 6 to help raise the capital needed to fund the initial fabric sourcing and cut-and-sew efforts.

To listen to the full “Social Entrepreneur with Nathan Webster” podcast, click here. To contribute to the Indiegogo campaign, click here. — J.L.

 


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