Informational Links

General Overview

For a general overview about sustainable fabrics, you may want to read this article we wrote for the Spring 2009 issue of Living Crafts magazine (downloads as a .pdf file).

To learn more about specific ecologically-friendly fabrics, sustainable choices, etc, visit the following sites (pages will open in a new window):

• The Sustainable Cotton Project

• Hemp facts from the Hemp Industries Association
• Hemp and marijuana: myths and realities
• Industrial hemp: An overview

• From flower to textile, the story of linen

• About Eco-fi/Ecospun

• Is silk green?
• Ahimsa Silk

• Tencel

• Fashion-Incubator: Lessons from the sustainable factory floor
• Designer-Entrepreneurs
• BCI Labels prints organic cotton labels for your garments. They also print many non-organic labels, and we'd love to find a company that's more eco-friendly overall to recommend; if you have one, let us know.
• Pattern School: The original home of stretch-fit patternmaking
• Fashion Creation Without Fabric Waste Creation

• Crafting a Green World: DIY for environmentalists
• Crunchy Chicken: Putting the mental in environmental
• WhipUp.net: Handcraft in a hectic world

• Organic Clothing: All about organic, natural, and sustainable clothing and eco-fashion
• Slow Money Alliance: Changing the face of philanthropy, the green economy, and so much more
• Green America: Economic action for a just planet (the National Green Pages is invaluable)
• Fake Plastic Fish: Living life with less plastic
• Grist: Environmental news, commentary, advice, and more
• TreeHugger
• Subscribe to E - The Environmental Magazine: bimonthly information, news and resources for people who want to know how they can make a difference.

• The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing
• Food Politics by Marion Nestle

• Green America Business Network: The mailing list alone is worth the price of admission, but there's so much more