Laos organic cotton _ lao has been planting cotton for hundreds of years, mostly small family-style, directly to the fiber to do woven into cloth as a daily life items. The tradition of producing cotton in the Futai people in Shawan Najib province is to grow all kinds of staple fiber cotton, and then hand-woven into cloth after the blue dye fabric, made into a waist cloth and a man's apron, but also as a scarf and home sheets.
Most Laos families can not afford expensive fertilizers and can only grow cotton with small pieces of land. Interspersed with other crops against the natural resistance of pests and diseases to grow organic cotton. The whole planting process is hand-processed, harvested after the rainy season to clean the rain. Cotton planting takes eight months to produce cotton, and then by hand picking, hand picked cotton seeds, and then hand-spinning.
Even if the general chemical dye is relatively cheap, the local or adhere to the traditional spirit of the cloth to plant dyeing cloth, the traditional wooden or bamboo loom cotton thread woven into cloth. Some will be made into rich Thai unique indigo tie-dye pattern.
The entire series of cloths is made by the weaving workshop in the province of Savannah, about 60 women.
The color from the earth
The vegetation is a lingering art
Natural raw silk is white or yellow, while natural cotton is white or brown.
Cotton and silk can be stained with vegetation or chemical dyes.
However, the traditional Laos textile sticks only to the natural material - seeds, leaves, plant roots, flowers, fruits, bark and insect resin extract dyes.
Sophisticated dyed master, must be familiar with the dyed with how to match the control has been dyed with a specific color. The whole dyeing process must have a very refined technology, often after a number of dyeing and drying to achieve the uniformity and depth of color.
The whole process of grass dyeing, excluding the collection of plant dyes and the preparation of dye time, light dyeing line on the need for at least 2 days to 2 weeks working hours. So the dyed products of the grass are usually more expensive than other chemical dyestuffs.
Blue _Kharm
40x170cm
Cocoon design + fair trade
Taiwan's first WFTO World Fair Trade Organization certified member
1% of your purchases will be donated to the earth
1% For The Planet
Origin / manufacturing method
Laos Fair Trade Organization
Most Laos families can not afford expensive fertilizers and can only grow cotton with small pieces of land. Interspersed with other crops against the natural resistance of pests and diseases to grow organic cotton. The whole planting process is hand-processed, harvested after the rainy season to clean the rain. Cotton planting takes eight months to produce cotton, and then by hand picking, hand picked cotton seeds, and then hand-spinning.
Even if the general chemical dye is relatively cheap, the local or adhere to the traditional spirit of the cloth to plant dyeing cloth, the traditional wooden or bamboo loom cotton thread woven into cloth. Some will be made into rich Thai unique indigo tie-dye pattern.
The entire series of cloths is made by the weaving workshop in the province of Savannah, about 60 women.
The color from the earth
The vegetation is a lingering art
Natural raw silk is white or yellow, while natural cotton is white or brown.
Cotton and silk can be stained with vegetation or chemical dyes.
However, the traditional Laos textile sticks only to the natural material - seeds, leaves, plant roots, flowers, fruits, bark and insect resin extract dyes.
Sophisticated dyed master, must be familiar with the dyed with how to match the control has been dyed with a specific color. The whole dyeing process must have a very refined technology, often after a number of dyeing and drying to achieve the uniformity and depth of color.
The whole process of grass dyeing, excluding the collection of plant dyes and the preparation of dye time, light dyeing line on the need for at least 2 days to 2 weeks working hours. So the dyed products of the grass are usually more expensive than other chemical dyestuffs.
Blue _Kharm
40x170cm
Cocoon design + fair trade
Taiwan's first WFTO World Fair Trade Organization certified member
1% of your purchases will be donated to the earth
1% For The Planet
Origin / manufacturing method
Laos Fair Trade Organization