Recycled yarn holding together a hotel's retired bedsheets. Loop8 in Dr Katherine Soucie's textile installation.
A hotel gets through an extraordinary amount of textile. Sheets, robes, towels, table linen. Each piece has a working life, and then it reaches the end of it. Usually that is where the story stops.
At The Westin London City this summer, it did not.
Dr Katherine Soucie took the hotel's retired linens, robes and towels and built a towering textile installation out of them. Every material in the piece once did a job in that building. The sheets that made the beds, the towels that dried the guests, the robes that hung on the back of the door. All of it, given a second life as sculpture.
We are proud to have supported this one.
Look closely at the installation and you will find Loop8 running through it. Loop8 is our own yarn, made by Cheekyarn: 100 per cent recycled PET, GRS certified, super bulky at eight ply. It is the yarn we tuft with in the studio every day.
In this piece it shows up in the stitching, in the loops, in the little bursts of texture that hold all that history together. It is doing structural work and decorative work at the same time, which is exactly what it is good at.
There is a neatness to it that we like. A yarn made from waste plastic, binding together textiles that had reached the end of their useful life, inside the building those textiles came from.
We did not start making recycled yarn because it was a good marketing line. We started because the tufting world runs on acrylic and virgin wool, and we thought there should be another option. Something you could work with at scale, that performed properly under a tufting gun, and that was not made from new material.
Waste becoming something worth keeping. That is the whole point, really.
Threads of Renewal, summer 2026Dr Katherine Soucie, Sans Soucie TextilesThe Westin London CityMade by Cheeky Studio, yarn by Cheekyarn
If you are working on a project that needs recycled yarn, or you are curious about what Loop8 can do at scale, get in touch. We like difficult briefs.
