We’ve set out on an ambitious journey to break down every garment into its raw components, trace them back to their origin and put that information into the labels of each piece of clothing by the end of 2019. The modern garment supply chain is immensely complex and conventional “Made In” labels offer a dangerously simplified truth. Now, we’re tracing every step of our garments’ creation, so that both we at Asket, and you as an individual, can make informed decisions about the clothing we choose to invest in - and by extension, the type of business we choose to endorse. Where there’s no information, lets start asking. For every question we raise and every truth we uncover, we’re increasing our consciousness, nudging not only ourselves, but this industry as a whole, to gradually start considering what it actually takes to create the garments we wear everyday.

Full Traceability is our garment origin disclosure standard, requiring us to split out every component in a garment, identify every process in creating it and locate each facility at which a process occurs. The garment construction is broken down into cutting, sewing or linking, washing and packing. Main fabrics or yarns, as well as lining fabrics, are broken down into the individual yarns they’re made up of and traced from farming or recycling, through spinning, dyeing, knitting or weaving to any finishing processes. A trim (e.g. sewing thread, button, fusing, tape, zipper) is traced to its main supplier, only where possible we go deeper into subprocesses. The only exemption to date is the dye stuff, chemicals and stones used in dyeing and washing processes. We hope to start tracing those eventually too.

We trace by traveling and visiting facilities across the world, issuing questionnaires and collecting certificates of origin.

• Manufacturing and milling facilities are visited by our product team and you can explore them on each product page under the “manufacturing” section. No matter how far we’ve traced a garment, we provide everything we know - and everything we don’t.

• Raw Material facilities are not traced to individual locations, but are considered traced when we have an exclusive list of the farms contributing to the garment batch (merino wool), by certificates of regional origin (GOTS organic cotton and Lenzing Tencell™ wood fibers) or by GRS certificates for recycled fibers (post- and pre-consumer wool, recycled PET and nylon), due to the technical hurdles in tracing recycled fibers to the specific PET bottles or old garments that they're made up of.

• Trims facilities are currently not visited, but traced by paper trail and questionnaires.