INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS

Taking manufacturing back to the regions where products and materials originate, bringing unique local businesses to an international market.

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Three shoes, three nations, three stories of tradition and local manufacturing. From left to right: Sport Espadrille, Tucumán, Argentina / Kenyatas, Mombasa, Kenya / Cabrales, DF, México. #industryofallnations

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Expedition off the coast of California, with Captian @scott_trattner & Mariner @geebaum #theforever

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House in Leira, Portugal by Aires Mateus Architects. #archinotes

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Clean Clothes Project - IOAN India 

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Indigo Stepping @industryofallnations #CleanClothes #NaturallyDyed #MohawkGeneralStore

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Presenting the IOAN Sweatshirt. Organic Cotton + Natural Dyes. Featuring Indigo 8dips. #Juggling #industryofallnations (at IOAN HQ)

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The Softest Polo Ever

100% organic cotton lightweight pique developed and produced by Industry of All Nations. Available here & at your local IOAN retailer

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The Alpaca is a South American camelid which is kept in herds on the level heights of the Andes in Bolivia and Peru. Their hair or fiber has been use by the local people for thousand of years as it is warmer than sheep's wool, it is not prickly and bears no lanolin which makes it hypoallergenic. Of the camelid species the Alpaca and the Vicuna are the most valuable fiber bearing animals.

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We have started delivery of our new 100% Alpaca Sweaters and Cardigans. Made in Bolivia by a cooperative of Alpaca breeders and fiber producers who work together with local craftswomen to create the ultra soft and warm, non itchy and hypoallergenic IOAN Alpaca tops. Available starting this week at your local IOAN retailer.

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Madras Batik Project / traditional block printing - India 2012/13

We are working on the development of the first Industry of All Nations Batik production with 100% Indian materials and labor. The product collection includes Shirts, Shorts and T-shirts, tailored for the modern life, made from 100% organic Madras fabric, block printed in the traditional way and finally naturally dyed in indigos, yellows and shellacs. Products will be available through IOAN worldwide retailers starting March 2013.

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Clean Clothes Project

We are making garments without contaminating everything and everybody around us. 100% NATURAL DYES. Few people realize the impact the garment industry has on the world, yet the World Bank estimates that 17-20% of industrial pollution comes from textile coloring and treatment. Cotton covers 55% of the world's cultivated land but uses 75% of the world's insecticides and with every ton of fabric produced, 200 tons of water are polluted. Genetically modified cotton, which comprises almost 90% of all cotton requires twice the amount of water as organic cotton. Alongside this, everyday, millions of people are exposed to these harmful chemicals. This is not sustainable- environmentally or socially.   To address this, Industry of All Nations started the Clean Clothes Project- our initiative to make clothes the cleanest way possible. So we teamed up with a group of minded like manufacturers in Southern India to develope cotton basics dedicated to being completely non-toxic, loomed from organic cotton and dyed using all-natural dyes. This means the colors of the shirts come from elements in nature: the black comes from Iron, the blue comes from the Indigoferia Tinctoria plant, and the red comes from the Rubia Cardofilia plant. Color gradation comes from the number of times the shirt is dipped into the dye; so the light hue is a 2-dip dye, while the darkest is a 12-dip dye.  Using natural dyes not only revitalizes the fading art of natural-dying but even more importantly, eliminates toxic chemicals for workers and wearers, and the releases of hazardous waste into the water systems. The origin-story of the dye is illustrated on our packaging, which is designed like an envelope and made from recycled paper to cut down on plastic and replace the commonly-used poly-bag. This is all part of our goal to reintroduce people to the magic of natural color and remind everyone that there's another way to produce and deliver goods. After-all, the future of business is not about dumping pollutants to our planet to save a few dollars- it's about creating shared value and designing solutions that maximize meaning along every step of production. These are the principles I.O.A.N. was founded on. Unlike companies who try to hide from their customers that their goods are produced at significant costs to the people and environment involved, we want to connect our customers to their belongings and the communities producing them. We partner with the factories to ensure that these processes can scale sustainably. As this grows, more people recieve meaningful products, which cuts down the use of toxic chemicals. This is how globalization can rebuild local communities, and how business can restore the environment. The Clean Clothes Project is our way of showing how something as simple as a cleaner t-shirt can have a profound impact on the world. This is a revolution. Because when you buy an I.O.A.N. clean t-shirt, you are really buying a more human supply chain, and a cleaner planet."

<p><strong><a href="http://vimeo.com/64335995" data-mce-href="http://vimeo.com/64335995">I.O.A.N. Clean Basics</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/industryofallnations" data-mce-href="http://vimeo.com/industryofallnations">Industry of All Nations</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/" data-mce-href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</strong></p>

NOTE: Industry of All Nations naturally dyed garments are fixed with Alum (Aluminum Sulfate) avoiding the use of petrochemicals or heavy metals. Alum is an eco-friendly mineral mordant very low in toxicity used since Pharaoh times in ancient Egypt. Each batch of Alum solution used is then treated with lime, which neutralizes the Alumina and turns the Sulfate into plaster of Paris, leaving a non-toxic biodegradable residue that can be reused. Unlike our other colors, Indigo is unique in that the color is automatically locked into the fabric as the dyed fiber oxidizes with the air, eliminating any other mordant processes.