I wonder if Walter's jeans were sandblasted...

Teachers familiar with the Geog Dot series will be familiar with Walter's Global Jeans.
It's been around for a while now, and is a good way of visualising the global trade in clothing, and the pursuit of the lowest cost location by trans-national companies.

This BBC article brought to my attention by Global Dimension looks at another intriguing environmental dimension to jeans production: the act of sandblasting them to give them a 'distressed' look....
Could be a useful addition to the set of resources for globalisation work.

Walter’s Global Jeans

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Update
I'm grateful to Rob Morris for sending me an image of this pumice quarry at Sprengissandur in Iceland


Pumice is the rock used for distressing jeans...


A sandur is an outwash plain (of course)

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