What's in my clothes?
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What type of cotton for your kid?
by Samantha ThouretWhat’s your kid’s favourite garment? A sweater, a vest or a T-shirt? Many of your child’s clothes are made of cotton. After polyester, cotton is... -
A dress of milk? Yes, coming soon!
by Samantha ThouretWhen I started searching for organic fabrics for our first ethical kids collection, I had not expected to discover so many natural fibers! There is ample choice: linen, banana fiber, hemp, alpaca, lyocell from eucalyptus, Lenpur from white pine, Ingeo fiber fromcorn sugar, fiberglass nettle, organic cotton, coconut fiber, bamboo fiber, apple leather and milk fiber.
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Much ado about polyester?
by Heleen DevosWhen it came to embroidering our T-shirts, we came across an unexpected sustainability challenge: our supplier’s embroidery machines are set up to work with polyester yarn. Surely this was not a problem?
Well, we thought it was. We had made all this effort to source and pay for GOTS-certified cotton, and then we’d pollute them with polyester embroidery? We couldn’t let that happen.