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There is an ELEPHANT in This Room
Since carbon footprint is a pressing concern, we will re-publish – and bring into one place here on our blog – the astounding facts about fabric and carbon footprint. You can easily lighten your carbon footprint just through your textile choices! Next week, we’ll re-publish graphs that visually and profoundly illustrate the facts. The following article appeared in the June, 2009 issue of The…
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Good Bye, Leigh Anne
Dear Readers You may have noticed that we have not posted but about 3 times in the past– well, almost three years. The sad reason for this falling-down-on-the-job is that my sister – my fellow founder, long-time business partner, and the primary researcher and first draft writer of this blog (started in 2009!), Leigh Anne, has early onset dementia. She can no longer work. The absence of blog…
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Polyester is not stain resistant
Polyester is not stain resistant
Recently, we attended a webinar about how to keep your home free of toxins. In the conversation about which fabrics to choose for your furniture, one of the panelists suggested using a synthetic (polyester) fabric to avoid stains. People often think synthetic fiber fabrics are naturally stain resistant. They are not. They are stain resistant because of the addition of chemicals which you do NOT…
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Choosing a fabric for your new sofa
Choosing a fabric for your new sofa http://wp.me/p7lU3-Qv
Design decisions influence our health –so your choice of a sofa fabric could influence you and your family in ways far beyond what you imagined. Our children start life with umbilical cords infused with chemicals that affect the essence of human life itself – the ability to learn, reason and reproduce. And fabric – which cocoons us most of the time, awake and asleep – is a contributor to…
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10 reasons to make sure your sofa choices are upholstered with safely processed fabrics.
10 reasons to make sure your sofa choices are upholstered with safely processed fabrics.
If a fabric is identified as 100% “cotton” – or even 100% “organic cotton” — it’s important to remember that processing the fiber, and then weaving it into fabric, is very chemically intense. One-quarter of the total weight of the finished fabric is made up of synthetic chemicals, so it’s important to know that the chemicals used in your fabrics are safe! [1] There have not been a lot of…
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Do we exaggerate the dangers of conventional fabrics?
We received a comment on one of our blog posts recently in which the reader chastised us for exaggerating issues which they believe are disproportionate to the facts. In their words: For instance formaldehyde… is a volatile chemical…no doubt it is used in the textile industry a great deal…but looking for this chemical in end products is an example chasing a ghost…. It has to be put in…
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Relationships and systems
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From Jewel Renee Illustration; jewelrenee.blogspot.com/2011/06/starfish-7-legged-and-otherwise.html
From Alaska to Southern California, sea stars (or as I call them, starfish. But scientists like to point out they’re not fish, ergo: “sea stars”) are dying by the millions. Drew Harvell, a marine epidemiologist at Cornell University, calls it the largest documented marine epidemic in…
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DIY Face Masks - Update!
DIY Face Masks – Update!
Kass Tailored has partnered with Providence Hospitals. Jeff Kaas has converted his factory 20 minutes north of Seattle to produce face shields and masks. They just completed the conversion evidently in the last 72 hours. And they are sharing how to’s and have assumed the job of educating other workrooms who want to do the same. Their mask central is: https://kaastailored.com/
Thank you…
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DIY Face Masks
Hello All;
We have not been posting regularly for the last year, but we will be prioritizing posting again now.
Numerous workrooms have contacted us to ask questions about making face masks – for medical professionals primarily. (According to CDC Guidelines, if you are not a medical professional or if you are not already infected, social distancing is preferable to wearing a face mask. In…
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How China's ban on importing waste has impacted the world's recycling systems
How China’s ban on importing waste has impacted the world’s recycling systems
This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 (Katz, Cheryl, “Piling Up: How China’s Ban in Importing Waste has Stalled Global Recycling”, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, March 7, 2019). We think it’s quite important so we’re reprinting it here:
It has been a year since China jammed the works of recycling programs around the world by essentially shutting down…
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Oops!
Oops ! We published part of our notes and not our final post! Most of this is direct quotes from others!
Allow us to attribute now!
Ocean Conservancy https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2019/01/08/washing-machine-microfiber Support Ocean Conservancy And forgive us !!
And also from: https://storyofstuff.org/blog/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-microfiber-pollution/ You must subscribe to…
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Microfiber pollution
Microfibers found in our oceans can originate from a wide variety of textiles and we know the shedding from synthetic apparel is particularly problematic. With each wash, plastic fibers from synthetic garments are making their way from washing machines into rivers and oceans. The tiny fibers are extremely small and almost invisible. Unfortunately, sewage treatment plants, as they are, cannot…
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Textile Industry and Climate Change
Textile Industry and Climate Change
“I believe we stand at a turning point in history. For the first time, humans are no longer just affected by weather cycles, we are affecting those cycles—and suffering the consequences of doing so.”
Patricia Espinosa, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary
Climate change is without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most pressing problems of the 21st century. It affects everything, from the air we…
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Obesogens
Researchers have come to a greater understanding of the multiple factors that influence obesity, which of course include our diet, but also our hormones, bio-individuality, epigenetics and increasingly, the environment. While lack of activity, poor diet, and genetics are frequently blamed for this problem, could there be other factors in the environment affecting our weight gain?
Many in the…
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FabricsellerA
A company that sells fabric on line has a post about why they don’t offer Oeko-Tex certification. Their post is woefully incorrect.
We do not name the company, but call it FabricsellerA. Their post, titled, Why Oeko-Tex certification is NOT Relevant to American Made Fabrics, (the entirety of which you can read below at the end of this post) claims that, in America, for American-made fabrics,…
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What is the benefit of PLA?
What is the benefit of PLA?
Much of this article came from the Smithsonian Magazine written by Elizabeth Royte – to whom we owe our gratitude.
Near Blair, Nebraska is the largest lactic acid plant in the world. Into one end goes corn, and out the other comes white pellets, which some say is the future of plastic. The substance is PLA – Polymerized Lactic Acid, or polylactic acid.
Globally, bioplastics (of which PLA is a…
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Chemicals used in textile products
Chemicals used in textile products
No parent would want toxic materials in their children’s clothing. Yet according to a new Greenpeace study,[1] a range of hazardous chemicals is being used in the production of kids’ wear from top fashion brands.
A frequent question about producing toxin-free clothing is whether it is economically feasible for textile companies to replace hazardous chemicals with safer alternatives. The answer is…
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