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Vegan or cruelty-free products mean a product that protects animals without causing them harm or suffering. It’s for this reason we’d like to show you a vegan silk, known as eri silk. Below, we’re going to tell you about the history of eri si…
Today we are going to talk about flax, a fiber which has been used for textile production since ancient times. In fact, proof of flax plantations and linen fabrics are widely present even in Egyptian tombs. Indeed, the Egyptians saw the fiber as a sy…
After discussing flax and ramié, today we would like to talk about another bast fiber: hemp (cannabis sativa). Since ancient times, hemp has been used to make high quality textiles.Cannabis SativaThe history of hempHemp originated about 5000 years a…
Cotton as a vegan fiberCotton is a natural fiber and it is one of the most used fibers together with wool. Also, it is one of the few non-edible cultivations that humankind has sewn for centuries. For the cotton plant to be able to grow, it needs a …
Ramié is a vegetable textile fiber. It is white, fine and shiny, and therefore very similar to silk, so much so that it is also called vegetable silk, or, as we like to say, vegan silk. It is also known as Chinagrass.Ramié Tops (right) and Mulberry…
The wording mulesing free or no mulesing is adopted for all extra fine merino wool whose origin, usually Australian, has certified fact that the sheep, whose fleece has been removed, have not undergone the practice of mulesing.Below we will explain w…
