It’s Got the Beauty and the Brains
Date: October 9, 2008 | Category: Featured, Home Furnishings, The Home
Let’s face it, reupholstering sustainable furniture with sustainable fabrics has been challenging. There have been some dreamy eco-choices for shears but covering couches and chairs and such has been either eco or fabulous, but combining gorgeous with green was quite impossible. Enter O Ecotextiles.
From Chinook, a stunning, almost translucent line of hemp fabrics, to the 100 percent bamboo Northern Lights, which mimics the drape and hand of velvet, everyone seems to be awestruck by how they have raised the bar. O Ecotextiles’ pretty face is just the topping on this supremely virtuous cake.
Down to their very fibers, all of O Ecotextiles’ fabrics are responsible and ethical. The company uses only materials made using clean processing practices and under fair trade conditions. Plus, O Ecotextiles is committed to giving the customer the full story: from how the fibers are grown, harvested, softened and dyed to how the finished product is processed. All pertinent information is thoroughly documented on their website so that consumers can be assured that the fabrics they are selecting meet the very highest enviro-standards.
We recently used the company’s Wisp sheers in the master bedroom of our Harbinger House project at the West Coast Green show house and visitors could not get over the fact that these beautiful drapes were made from the waste by-product of the pineapple industry.
Beauty and brains in a single fabric? Smart!
Comments
Amy Woidtke
Date: October 9th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I am lucky enough to live in the same city as Patty and Leigh Ann! They are so sweet and approachable. I met with Leigh Ann at their showroom, had a lovely long chat about the fabric industry and have conversed several times with them since. In fact, I’ll be getting a look at their latest fabrics in the next week or so here - just a meshing of calendars needed!
Excited that you have had a chance to use their fabric. I haven’t had a project yet with a budget that could afford it. Good news is they are coming out with some more affordable lines as well so a more mid level income client can afford to have OEco textiles as well!
If you know of anyone in the Greater Seattle area looking for home or office decorating/re-design, send them my way! Maybe they will need some OEco in their space!
Thanks as always for your lovely posts. I have you fed into my green living column at Examiner.com/Seattle!
Blessings,
Amy
EcoKind Design
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