Our Story

HANDMADE • ECO-FRIENDLY • SUSTAINABLE • QUALITY

Eco friendly and sustainable are principles at the heart of everything we do. We believe beautiful products of the highest quality can be made without it costing the earth and its precious ecosystems or our customer’s wallets.

Our journey started in 2015, when we opened our own zero waste manufacturing workshop on the outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka. We could have gone to many different places but chose to setup our home there because of the abundance of highly skilled artisans and the availability of eco-friendly, local materials.

Our company was founded by two brothers, Hugo And Lucas, who are dutch but have lived much of their lives in England. Not happy with inner city life and the environmental impact that current consumerism has, they decided to take matters into their own hands and create products using local materials and labour without the use of plastics, harsh chemicals and large quantities of waste.

We are Parkville and everything is proudly made in Sri Lanka

We are very proud and excited to announce our flip flop waste collection and upcycling program where we collect discarded flip flops and turn them into fun and innovative FlipYarn products such as high grade affordable sunglasses, accessories and key rings! These flip flops are collected from waterways, beach clean-ups as well as designated collection points and sorted at waste sorting facilities here in Sri Lanka where our Parkville factory is located.

Once collected the old flip flops are thoroughly cleaned and sanitised. We then upcycle and repurpose them into affordable, high grade, fun and colourful FlipYarn sunglasses, bracelets, necklaces and keyrings. Our FlipYarn offcuts are shredded for use as padding and packing materials. All of our sunglasses are fitted with custom spring hinges for maximum comfort and flexible fit as well as with market leading UV 400 scratch resistant lenses – the top standard in the eyewear industry - in both normal and polarised versions. The product comes in a recycled box with a carry pouch, a microfibre cloth, full warranty and 30 day money back guarantee.

The Factory

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