Archive for January, 2007
Jan 29th
1) Made with 100% certified holy cow organic cotton, free of hazardous pesticides and chemical fertilizers
2) Free of PVC’s (polyvinol chloride), nasty stuff for the environment.
3) Sweatshop free.
4) Hand screen printed with water-based ink.
From Field to Fabric
Jan 28th
We can break the process from cotton field to fabric in to 4 steps: 1) Growing, 2) Harvesting, 3) Cleaning or “ginning” and 4) Manufacturing.
Step 1) Growing.
Although cotton is grown on just 2.4% of the world’s arable land, it accounts for 24% of the world’s insecticides, making it the most pesticide-intensive crop on the planet. Not only do these insecticides kill “harmful” creatures, they ravish beneficial instincts as well, including ladybugs and wasps.
