"FOOD TEXTILE" is TOYOSHIMA It is a sustainable project brand consisting of three companies: a food-related company that provides raw materials for color, and a collaborative company that develops products with its dough. We purchase non-standard ingredients, cut vegetable scraps, coffee dumplings, etc. that have been discarded in the past from food-related companies and farms, extract the ingredients contained in the ingredients, and dye them into new items by dyeing them into fabrics and threads.
The fabric of the chopstick bags distributed as a congress bag at the G7 Nagano Prefecture Karuizawa Foreign Ministers' Meeting held this time is dyed with colors extracted from the red turnip fruit left over when making "sunki," a pickle made from the leaves and stems of red turnips, a specialty of Kiso Town, Nagano Prefecture. It is set with Kiso Hinoki chopsticks, and the design of the chopstick bag was devised by students of the Department of Food and Environmental Economics, Tokyo University of Agriculture. Through items unique to Japan, we were able to learn about the collaboration on sustainability, which companies and students from different industries are collaborating on, to many people, including delegations from various countries.
Going forward, "FOOD TEXTILE" will continue to propose the value of reinventing things that are simply discarded and allowing people to enjoy clothing, food, and living scenes in a fashionable way.
