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Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:40 pm

Our closest town has a bunch of organic cotton clothes, locally made, and their prices are STILL outrageous. I only buy from them during sale times, or I'll peruse the bargain basket.

The quilt idea is great. I made quilts just that way for my kids when they were tiny. I think I'll try my hand at it again, I had a lot of fun making them the first time. (I used an old thermal blanket for the base, did a layer of batting, made strips of the quilt squares, and sewed the whole thing together, easy-peasy.)

Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:10 am

thankfully...organic is not that expensive here...I mean I find the prices at par with normal fabric and therefore think it is good option to buy organic....the cloth is very comfortable and the colors are retained very well....

Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:35 am

Cotton is locally produced in your part of the world isn't it Atula? Whereas it is all imported over here.. When you say organic though, do you just mean natural fibres, mass produced, or specifically grown cotton with no pesticides, ferilizers etc?

Thu Nov 26, 2009 5:26 am

I mean specifically grown cotton with no pesticides stav...and another interesting development I just heard is that now researcher here have come up with organic cotton that comes in colors...I mean cotton bud is white in nature, but now they have a hybrid which too is grwon organically but has pink and blue cotton buds...isn't that great..that means even the synthetic colors later added to make cloth can be now no more needed.

Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:10 pm

I think the term organic is a big con trick, I don't pay attention to that at all. I try to buy ethically produced clothing and where possible locally produced, but that is not very easy. I am quite happy to use second hand clothing and I always recycle anything that we no longer need.

Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:53 pm

i can't imagine organically grown cotton that comes out pink Atula... how on earth did they manage that without some sort of genetic engineering?

Mon Nov 30, 2009 4:50 am

I am not so sure about the procedure stav...but here is an interesting site I found that states that naturally colored cotton was always available in Peru...just see the link...http://www.perunaturtex.com/textile.htm

Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:19 pm

THank you for the link Atula.. that is truly amazing.. It just shows you, nature can still outdo man, even when we insist on trying to tamper...

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