Organic Cotton Tea
It's nice that you want to know more about me as your respectful companion. It's important to me that I have absolutely no secrets from you, because that's the only way you'll feel better with me.
my description
I am a straight cut tee made of medium weight and super soft fabric.
- 210 g/m² single jersey
- 100% organic cotton
My added value
From the organic cotton field in Tanzania to the finished printed tee, I travel 14,299 kilometers.
It is important to me that all partners who have taken care of my manufacturing come from Europe.
My cost transparency
Price is always relative. The fact is that textiles carry huge margins, typically three to seven times the production costs.
I'm not a mass product, and I'm often made especially for you upon pre-order because I don't want to be part of a discount war.
My margin is slim and is used to pay rent, product development, and salaries.
my care
-Turn inside out and wash with similar colors
- Wash at 30°C to protect myself and save energy
- To dry you pull me into shape and hang me up
- If you iron me, please do so inside out and at a medium temperature, 150°C
- Avoid putting me in the dryer, dry cleaning me, or bleaching me
cotton field
We source our fair trade organic cotton from organic farms in Tanzania, around 1,800 small farmers.
The cotton farmers only use GMO-free seeds for cultivation.
The small farmers are involved in the organic farms in a participatory manner and have worked for Remei Tanzania Ltd. Access to coaching and training to continuously educate yourself in organic farming.
ginning
The raw cotton is separated and processed into fibers in the ginning plant at Bibiti Ginneries in Tanzania.
The final product is the pressed raw cotton bale.
spinning
After a long journey of 10,222 kilometers, the organic cotton bales reach the Tearfil spinning mill in Portugal.
This is where the magic happens. The organic cotton yarn is spun from the approximately 200 kilogram bales of long-staple cotton.
knitting
The organic cotton yarn cones arrive at the Handel + Diller knitting mill in Germany after 1,966 kilometers.
The specialists from Balingen knit our heavy yet super soft fabric from it.
dyeing
It is 144 kilometers from Balingen to Fehraltorf, Switzerland, and one of Europe's leading textile dyeing companies, E. Schellenberg Textildruck AG, is located here.
The company is a model in all respects. Starting with the production site in the middle of a residential area - which requires an ecological production method - through to wastewater treatment with one of the most modern systems in Europe.
We could continue the list at will, keywords local heating network waste heat utilization, 50% less water consumption, CO2 neutral production, Detox to Zero guidelines, but there is not enough space for that.
manufacture
1,959 kilometers away in Avioso Santa Maria, Portugal, is BrandBias Clothing Manufacturing, our partner for the manufacture of our textiles.