Sustainable Materials

When it comes to sustainable fabrics, our faves are those created by Mother Earth.

Think: organic cotton, hemp fabric, linen, and (depending on how it is sourced) ethical wool and ethical cashmere.

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rPET

RPET fabric or Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate.

Recycled polyester is commonly known as rPET. It is obtained by melting down plastics (e.g. PET bottles) and converting it to polyester fibres. The production of recycled polyester uses less resources than new fibres and generates less carbon emissions.

Woven PP

There are many environmental advantages to using Polypropylene: It takes fewer natural resources to produce and uses less energy than creating paper, cotton, canvas and jute bags. It generates fewer waste products in production and disposal. It is widely recycled. Bags made from Woven P are strong, durable and offer excellent protection against moisture and other environmental factors , ensuring your products stay safe and dry during storage and transport

Cork Fabric

Cork fabric starts with harvesting, where the outer section of the bark is peeled back to reveal the inner cork.

This can be done without harming the tree itself because the outer bark is able to regenerate itself! It’s often used as a vegan leather alternative

especially compared with leather—its production is much less detrimental to our planet. It doesn’t produce waste when being extracted or processed, nor does it contribute to air or water pollution.

Washable Paper

Washable paper is a material made from the cellulose found in trees. In the case of Supernatural Paper™, those trees come from responsibly managed forests. So even though it has many of the qualities of leather, it’s 100% cruelty-free, vegan, and sustainable. That means a lunch bag made from washable paper is a sustainable lunch bag.

Sustainably made and naturally sourced products can positively impact your feelings of well being.

A growing body of empirical evidence is reveals that both active and passive connect with nature provides psychological social and emotional benefits.

Our aim when selecting fabrics is: Fabrics made from renewable or replaceable sources, recycled and naturally sourced fabrics, always ensuring our choice of fabrics have a lower environmental impact across their whole life cycle. We are committed to using resources wisely and efficiently and adopting advanced technologies to reduce our environmental impact.

Organic Cotton

Organic cotton has proven benefits and nothing can beat its claim for sustainability.

It preserves biodiversity by eliminating synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, it reduces nitrogen emission in the atmosphere and produces 94% less greenhouse gas emissions, cotton grown organically reduces soil erosion and provides healthy working environment to the workers and small scale farmers.

Jute

Jute, also known as “the golden fiber”, is a long, soft, and shiny fiber made from the cellulose and lignin material from the jute plant. It is quick and easy to grow, having an excellent cost-to outcome ratio, 100% bio -degradable and it's the most affordable natural fiber on the market at the moment.

Juco

Juco is a smart, versatile and increasingly popular new ecological fabric. The fine blend of both jute and cotton give juco an edge on both materials, by taking the most beneficial properties of each it offers an ecological alternative to cotton and canvas bags.

Linen

Linen is made from the flax plant. It is one of the oldest, best-loved textiles in the world. The flax plant requires less water to cultivate than other textile crops and can be grown without pesticides. Bi-products from the flax plant can be used in making linseed oil, paints from the seeds, or rope from the excess fibres. If you think flax is just about linen tablecloths, think again..from bank notes to cigarette papers.

Hemp

One of the reasons that make hemp a sustainable option for clothing is it is a carbon-negative raw material - the crop absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases.

Hemp is a high-yielding crop that can produce more on less land.The hemp crop requires little water to grow and replenishes soil nutrients to help improve soil health and is biodegrabiodegradable

Bamboo

Bamboo fabric is similar to the softness of silk naturally smoother making bamboo fabric hypoallergenic. Bamboo possesses an anti-bacteria and bacteriostatic bio-agent called "Bamboo Kun", allowing it to naturally flourish and grow in the wild without the use of pesticides or fertilisers. This beneficial quality of the plant remains in its textile form, killing all bacteria keeping the wearer feeling fresher and odour free for longer, making the garment healthier and more hygienic.

Milk

Each year thousands of gallons of milk are poured down the drain. It is a wasteful problem.

Step in, Milk Fabric - a wonderfully creative product, transforming week-old soured milk into silky-smooth high end fashion fabric.

Banana

A sustainable alternative to cotton and silk- Banana fibre, is said to be nearly carbon neutral.

Banana fiber production has a negligible impact on the environment. This fabric is derived from what would otherwise be a waste product; banana peels an d harvested banana stems.

Orange

Citrus fruits are healthy and tasty, and the worldwide production of oranges is steadily increasing. However, in the citrus fruit industry, processing that float, for example to make it into juices, also generates huge amounts of waste. Lightweight Citrus cellulose yarn can be used in its entirety to make a 100% citrus biodegradable fabric that is soft, silky, and lightweight.

Aloe Vera

The fabric repels moisture and cold from the outside, a large number of pores allow an easy evaporation of sweat. The fabric cools during the warm nights, and if you are cold on the contrary it warms. It features excellent antibacterial and anti-allergenic properties. The Aloe vera Fibre is biodegradable and recyclable, grown pesticide free. The Aloe Vera plant requires less water than other natural plants like cotton

Soybean

With the softness of silk, soy fabric or “vegetable cashmere” is one of the world's most eco-friendly fabrics. Soybean protein fibre is made from soy pulp, which is an insoluble part of soybeans, and a by-product of tofu and soy milk production, making it environmentally friendly and biodegradable.

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus as a material is known as Lyocell, the trees are cut rather than uprooted, meaning that there is no need to continuously plant new trees. They also grow quickly, don’t need irrigation or pesticides, and can grow in relatively poor, dry, and rocky soil. Lyocell fiber is considered to be one of the most sustainable materials in the world, where 99% of water and solvents are recycled and reused.

Eucalyptus fabric is 10x more sustainable than cotton.

Cupro

Cupro - vegan silk alternative is a ‘regenerated cellulose’ fabric made from cotton waste. It is made using the teeny tiny silky cotton fibres, known as linter, that stick out of the cottonseed and are too small to spin. Cupro is said to have all the positive qualities of silk: it’s silky-smooth and drapes just like the luxurious material.

The good news first: cupro is a by-product of cotton production, so it is technically a recycled textile. We know by now that cotton production is a very wasteful and intensive process—it requires a massive amount of water and pesticides when it’s not organic. So using every bit of the cotton plant helps reduce waste.

Since cupro is plant-based—unlike silk which comes from silkworms—it is vegan and cruelty-free. Plus, unlike silk again, it is machine washable, which is more eco-friendly than the dry cleaning required for delicate silk garments.