Trade fair by natural-fiber clothing

10 Aug '06

2 min read

The annual InNaTex trade fair, in the heart of Germany brings together producers of natural-fiber clothing.

The European fashion has been delivering bright green, socially responsible clothing.

Many of the companies exhibiting were less than five years old, even less than two that indicated the extent of growth in the industry.

To participate, an exhibitor need not have to be organically certified but have to be with natural collection having worked with cotton, wool, silk, hemp, and other materials produced by living organisms, instead of by humans mucking about with fossil fuels and chemicals etc.

Stalls selling natural buttons, combs and toys along with a small French business with a focus on floral lingerie and baby clothes, all in organic cotton grown, processed and stitched together in Turkey and India.

A knitting business using silk stuff that has imaginative, mainstream-current designs, good colorations and the price tag reasonable were busy with several customers.

It's tough to get certified silk clothing's as the worms that make the silk are some of the pests that pesticides were made for, so they get exposed to whatever's on what they ate and it's even harder to dye it and hence the silk clothing were colored by vegetable dyes.

The most successful exhibitor at the green-and-fair trade fair appeared to be the least concerned with being green or fair but the savviest at marketing.

The second most successful exhibitor, judging from the evidence of hustle and bustle were a company called Lana who were greener and more publicly committed to both organic and fair trade sourcing.

The artisanship of a small French entrepreneur making simple, elegant jeans of cotton and indigo and treating old Japanese kimonos by some secret process involved by packing them in mud some thirty times to produce a truly lovely, dark silk material was worthy.

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