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Fiber Composition: 100% bamboo pile' 56% certified organic cotton, 44% bamboo.

Colorways: 8

Width:54"

Weight:12.1 oz/yd2

Abrasion:9,000 Martindale

Cleaning Code:E-S

Northern lights (aurora borealis) is the name of a light phenomenon often seen in the northern regions. Flickering curtains of dancing light against the dark skies, it is one of the most spectacular of nature's phenomena. The lights have been around since Earth formed an atmosphere - the dinosaurs saw it, early humans saw it and we hope our descendants will see it. With the same drape and banked luminosity as fine linen velvets, Northern Lights can be used for window treatments, bed appointments, and occasional upholstery.

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O Eco Textiles

Dimensions

54" width

Green Attributes

Renewable Resource
Biodegradable
Natural Dyes
Sustainable Manufacturing Process
Contributes to LEED Credits

Other

Eligible for LEED credits: indoor air quality, use of rapidly renewable.

Manuf. List Price

Upon Request

Appropriate Application

Both Residential & Commercial

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ECOFACTS

Belgian Bamboo. The bamboo yarns used in this fabric are manufactured in Belgium by one of Europe’s largest organic cotton suppliers. The production of the yarns causes a small amount of air pollution because of chemical reactions, and a small percentage of this is released into the air. Their water treatment is thorough, and yields pristine water.

British Mill. The velvet is woven by a mill in Great Britain which has been producing fine velvets for over 100 years. Although the production of velvet is complex – consisting of two warp yarns and a fill yarn – this mill agreed to experiment with bamboo and organic cotton yarns, and after a few tries were able to produce this fine velvet. They were also enthusiastic participants in greening the steps they could: for example, they switched the sizer they used to potato starch and they improved their wastewater treatment.

Exceptional Standards. The fabric is softened and dyed at our Italian dye house, which is one of relatively few houses in the world that is qualified to produce a dyed or finished fabric which can be a certified “organic textile.” Being an “organic textile," means not just that a fabric uses organic fibers in the yarn, but that every step of the production process has been certified eco-friendly.

For those who are interested, our dye house has received the Italian Institute for Ethical and Environmental Certification (ICEA) for adherence to AIAB (Italian Association for Biological Agriculture) standards as well as the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS).

Safe, Low-Impact Dyes. We invested more than two years of research in our dyes in order to achieve color consistency, colorfastness and complete absence of toxicity. The dyes meet EU and Global Organic Textile Standards to be free of AZO colorants (a cancer causing toxin that is used in many dyes), heavy metals and aromatic amines and the dyestuffs are completely biodegradable (except for some of the blues which can contain copper).

Eco-Softness. The fabrics are softened with a combination of beeswax, aloe vera and vitamin E.

About the Founders
Patty and Leigh Anne founded this company to make the whole world safer while making our personal environments more beautiful.

After forming O Ecotextiles in 2004, they began a world-wide search for manufacturing partners interested in a cradle-to-cradle process of creating no-impact, perfectly safe, incredibly luxurious fabrics.

They began working with people around the world: Romanian farmers who dew- or field-ret hemp stalks; a Japanese mill owner committed to "green" processes, even new methods such as using ozone to bleach fabric; a 100-year-old Italian mill that produces no wastewater; a Chilean mill shifting to entirely green processes; an Italian dye house that produces biodegradable, heavy-metal free textiles.

The first fabrics coming out are, as the sisters envisioned, sophisticated, stylish and "green."

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