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17 x 31 x 2 sateen cotton fitted sheet (3)

Custom order for Renee Pendergrass- **Please expedite this order**

13.5 x 33.5 x 2 sateen cotton fitted sheet – order of 3 sheets

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Organic Twill Cotton Fabric

GOTS Organic Fabric

This organic twill cotton fabric is smooth, strong and durable. It is an economical fabric that would be good for toppers, ticking, or any other simple projects. Because it is a heavyweight woven fabric, it is easy to work with.

We use it in conjunction with our wool flake to make a wool mattress.  It is also a common choice when reupholstering a couch to use as an inner case underneath your outer fabric.

 

Organic Double Knit Cotton Fabric

Double Knit GOTS Organic Cotton Fabric Hanging Books
  • Sold by the 90″ yard
  • Flexible
  • Heavyweight, 485 GSM
  • Undyed
  • Shrinkage 12-15%
  • GOTS Organic

This double knit organic cotton fabric is soft and thick.  This is the fabric we use in our Knit and Expandable Ticking and our outer pillowcases. Latex purists, those who like to be completely absorbed by their latex mattress and have every pressure point relieved, swear by this fabric’s flexibility.

Our double knit cotton fabric can stretch. It has no rayon, latex or spandex in it, so it certainly won’t stretch and return to shape like some synthetic fabric will, but it has give. We tested it to give you some numbers.  A 12” x 12” piece was stretched both ways against a ruler. One direction easily stretched 2” wider and could have been pulled taut 2.5” wider than original. The other direction easily stretched 1.5” wider and could have been pulled taut at 2”.

The close up picture is to detail the three layers of fabric/threads used to construct a double knit fabric.  A little water spray in the middle helped reveal the crosswise threads running under the top layer of fabric. This triple layer of threads not only makes it heavy, it also gives it durability.

Using leather needles is not recommend on this fabric, standard needles will do just fine.

 

Organic Cotton Sateen Fabric

GOTS Organic Cotton Sateen

A smooth fabric we use as for our sheets and inner pillow cases. Its durability is not sacrificed to create its luxurious feel. This 300 thread count organic cotton sateen fabric is smooth, soft, thin, and lightweight. It is a woven fabric in a wide width that makes a yard go quite far.

It is great for linings, pockets, quilt backings, etc. This fabric is dye free, bearing a natural color and a smooth finish. It is more of a white color than a cream color, though it is not bleached nor does it look bleached.

We also use this fabric for our Wool Toppers, Wool Topper Kit, Wool Comforters as it is tightly woven enough to keep the wool from migrating through.  It would be a good choice when making your own wool topper.

 

Natural Upholstery vs. Conventional Upholstery Supplies

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You have a beautiful frame of a chair or couch that really needs some cushion, and you want to use chemical-free, eco-friendly supplies, but where do you start? Here is a list of substitutions from the standard petroleum based products.

Dacron Batting –> Wool Batting
Foundation Material –> Cotton Batting
Decking Fabric (to cover the springs) –> Organic Sateen Fabric
Poly Foam –> Organic Latex
Ticking Fabric (to cover the wool so that it doesn’t migrate through the decorative fabric) –> Organic Twill Fabric
Thin Foam –> Wool Felt


That’s it. It is really that simple. For a DIY project, purchase your custom cut latex here and contact us to sew you an inner case of our organic fabrics and an outer case of your decorative fabric.

Similarities between Natural Latex and conventional foam

  • Five firmnesses available, use softer for the back cushions and firmer for the base
  • Firmer means denser which means more durable
  • Batting or a down jacket still can be wrapped around to add plumpness to cushion
  • If using on top of springs, use a ticking fabric between the springs and the latex so as to not tear it

Unique Tricks to Natural Latex

  • Cut only with a blade, not a hot wire
  • Over time (15 years+), instead of softening, latex will harden as it dries out and eventually crumbles

What Sets Organic Latex apart from conventional poly foam

  • No flame retardants
  • Chemical-Free: The end product has only 5 ingredients with latex comprising of 96% of the finished product.
  • Long Life: 20 -30 year lifespan
  • Vegan: Tree Based not petroleum Based
  • Compostable: Just give it time
  • Sustainable: The Hevea brasiliensis trees are grown for 30 years before they stop producing enough latex and are harvested for their wood.
  • Hypoallergenic
  • Antimicrobial: In a closed testing environment, growing bacteria introduced to the latex were not able to survive.
  • Dust Mite Resistant: It is simply inhabitable.
  • Excellent Airflow: Compared to memory foam and all poly foams, latex allows more air movement and thus does not retain heat.

Own an Upholstery Business? Contact us for wholesale rates.

Organic Muslin

Organic 92" Muslin
  • 92″ wide yard
  • GOTS Organic 100% Cotton Muslin
  • 4.5 oz
  • Undyed

This moderate weight organic muslin is a basic fabric, good for all your crafting and cushion and pillow cases. Woven with organic threads, it is food safe, machine washable, a great utility fabric.

Compared to our sateen fabric, it is thinner and less smooth, but it is also more affordable. We have tested it with the wool to see if there is any migration of the fibers through the fabric and there is not.

It is a common fabric to choose as decking in upholstery uses or to wrap around wool batting to keep the wool from migrating through a decorative fabric.

 

Wool Toppers Q & A

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A customer asked: “I’m looking for wool with the following specs to meet flammability standards. Can you tell me if the wool in the wool topper meets these standards?

Consider

One of the most important criteria when selecting wool for a wool topper is its micron count. Too high a count or too coarse a fiber and you have stiff rug wool that is pokey inside the fabric. Too low a count and you have thin, slippery fibers that are fine enough for clothing. Also some breeds of sheep have very straight wool with no crimp in it. You want some crimp in the wool so the wool stays lofty.

Specification 1

High quality organic wool that comes from the back or high on the side of the animal (to minimize contact with the debris the live animal runs across in pasture), and come from a sheep fed an organic diet.

Answer 1

No, we do not separate the wool on the different parts of the sheep’s body. The machines take care of most of the vegetation so it is rare to see any. No, this year’s sheep are not necessarily fed an organic diet. Sheep are grazers and so are pastured all day with green growing grasses that are not harmed with chemicals. These sheep are milk producers and make some amazing cheeses. See Green Dirt Farm‘s page for more info. See also our post on natural vs. organic wool.

Specification 2

The natural lanolin and keratin in the wool must remain intact. This means washing must be minimized, and chemical washing (which can strip lanolin, especially), is right out.

Answer 2

To keep all of the lanolin means to keep all of the dirt and grime. To remove all of the lanolin means the wool must be sacrificed in order to harvest the lanolin. Naturally, the wool is washed. The only substance used in its processing is a surfactant, which breaks the surface tension of the water, allowing the oily lanolin to float away in the washing water. Unlike conventional wool, our wool processing contains none of the following chemicals:

  • NO bleach
  • NO acid bath
  • NO bonding
  • NO resin
  • NO carbonization
  • NO superwashing

Specification 3

High natural lanolin content combined with careful processing that makes wool an effective FR barrier. 

Answer 3

Wool is also an effective fire barrier when it is dense and matted. Reducing oxygen that a fire needs is part of its job too.

Specification 4

Wool that is carded or garneted and then “densified” by needle punching or quilting minimizes the air between the fibers while retaining comfortable loft. 

Answer 4

No, the wool in the topper is not felted or needle punched, our wool puddle pad is though. That would make a firm mat and not a lofty topper. It is also not quilted or it would be a ticking, not a topper. It is tufted. All batting is either garneted or carded, that is the process of laying fiber on top of each other to create a fluffy sheet.

Specification 5

Wool in a thickness of about 1.8 oz. per square foot, properly prepared, makes a highly trustworthy FR option.

Answer 5

True enough, that is the industry standard because it does pass the burn test. Wool also passes the burn test due to its high combustion point, 600 degrees, almost triple that of cotton’s burn point. If you want a fire barrier, you should be looking at our Quilted Ticking, then the wool wraps entirely around the mattress instead of just on top like a topper.

Organic Face Masks

GOTS organic face mask

A simple, no elastic, tie-on GOTS organic face mask made of our high thread count fabric. Nothing synthetic here, just pure organic, clean breathing. There is no other fabric included other than the sateen, no elastic and no nonwovens for a completely chemical free-breathing experience.

Covers both nose and mouth. See pictures.

See here for the CDC’s recommendation on protecting ourselves by measures including cloth masks.

Each quantity comes with a discount.
2 = $10 each
5 = $9.5 each
25 = $9 each

Machine washable.

Quilted Pillow Case (Copy)

Quilted Wool Pillow Case

This thick, quilted pillowcase provides a soft barrier between you and the fill inside your pillow. It smooths out the feel of shredded latex and cushions millet hulls. It continues the temperature regulation of wool batting and woolly bolas and adds body and form to kapok and shredded latex.

This quilted pillowcase uses our wool batting sandwiched between two layers of GOTS organic cotton fabric.  The outer fabric is our smooth, soft double knit and the inner our sateen.

One short side has a full length zipper. To eliminate the chance of the zipper coming open on its own and to silence the jingle of the zipper pull, we have hidden the pull inside a pocket to keep it secure.

Our quilted pillowcase is the ultimate small business product as two home businesses, in addition to our small business, are supported by your purchase: the fabric is quilted by a local long arm quilter and the wool is from small local, farms.

We use this pillow case with our millet hull pillow kit.

Travel: 12″ x 20″
Standard: 20″ x 26″
Queen: 20″ x 30″
King: 20″ x 36″
Body: 20″ x 60″
Custom: You name the size, we’ll sew it.

Millet Hull Weighted Blanket Kit

Millet Hull Weighted Blanket Kit

Here is a weighted blanket made entirely from natural plant products, organic cotton and millet hulls. There are no glass beads or plastic pellets in this blanket, just our millet hulls grown on organic fields in Colorado. These entirely natural products will ground you and soothe you into sleep.

Millet hulls are the quietest of all the hull fills and the smoothest. They do a great job holding their place and will not shift on their own until you shift them. Millet hulls also make a temperate blanket. Because of their hollow convex shape, they retain no heat but leave space for airflow between them.

This weighted blanket provides all the benefits of deep touch therapy that studies show are a great tool to have in your health kit. Our bodies responds to the synthetic hug of a weighted blanket by releasing oxytocin, just as it does when we reach out for support and get a real hug or give one. Weighted blankets also stimulate the body’s release of serotonin, which is the precursor to melatonin, both hormones being part of the sleep cycle. Serotonin initiates the body’s desire to sleep and melatonin causes sleepiness. These hormones provide our body’s a natural way of being soothed by a weighted blanket.

Weighted blankets have been shown to

  • calm nerves
  • ease anxiety
  • increase focus
  • boost mood
  • soothe restless legs
  • decrease pain
  • quicken falling asleep
  • limit night wakings
  • lower blood pressure

While our weighted blankets comes with a standard amount of fill (listed below) more hulls may easily be ordered from their product here. General recommendations are that the blanket weighs 10% of your body weight. A zipper along the long side of the blanket lets you add or subtract as much fill as you want to adjust its weight. More millet hulls, available by the lb. are here.

Our dimensions have considered the size of each mattress and added in a little bit extra to accommodate the height of the sleeper. The blankets are not designed to drape over the sides of the bed, merely to rest on the surface and envelope the sleeper.

Tutorial Features

  • Pictures and Directions included
  • Crib – Eastern King Dimensions included

This weighted blanket tutorial uses pictures as well as directions and dimensions to explain how to sew a wool topper for your bed. The steps is easy to follow, especially if you skip the optional zipper step. The PDF covers how to sew the fabric, how to layer the wool batts inside and where to place your tufts. The fabric may be hand sewn; a machine is not needed but does quicken the job.

To purchase the premade millet hull weighted blanket, view its page here.

Printing

The tutorial will be available for download via a link in the receipt emailed to you or from your account if you create one during the checkout process as well as from the thank you page after you checkout.  It is highly recommended that you print it in color, so you can see the details of the pictures.

Supplies Included

Crib/Throw: 32″ x 50″ – 4.5 lb. millet hulls, sateen fabric, zipper
Twin: 42″ x 75″ – 12 lb. millet hulls, sateen fabric, zipper
Full: 58” x 75” – 20.5 lb. millet hulls, sateen fabric, zipper
Queen: 64” x 80” – 26  lb. millet hulls, sateen fabric, zipper
King: 80” x 80” – 37 lb. millet hulls, sateen fabric, zipper

To see the tutorial in action and to hear a story about why we chose to offer this weighted millet hull blanket, watch our video here.

To purchase a premade millet hull weighted blanket, see its product here.

Happy DIYing.

Millet Hull Weighted Blanket

Millet Hull Weighted Blanket

Here is a weighted blanket made entirely from natural plant products, organic cotton and millet hulls. There are no glass beads or plastic pellets in this blanket, just our millet hulls grown on organic fields in Colorado. These entirely natural products will ground you and soothe you into sleep.

Millet hulls are the quietest of all the hull fills and the smoothest. They do a great job holding their place and will not shift on their own until you shift them. Millet hulls also make a temperate blanket. Because of their hollow convex shape, they retain no heat but leave space for airflow between them.

This weighted blanket provides all the benefits of deep touch therapy that studies show are a great tool to have in your health kit. Our bodies responds to the synthetic hug of a weighted blanket by releasing oxytocin, just as it does when we reach out for support and get a real hug or give one. Weighted blankets also stimulate the body’s release of serotonin, which is the precursor to melatonin, both hormones being part of the sleep cycle. Serotonin initiates the body’s desire to sleep and melatonin causes sleepiness. These hormones provide our body’s a natural way of being soothed by a weighted blanket.

Weighted blankets have been shown to

  • calm nerves
  • ease anxiety
  • increase focus
  • boost mood
  • soothe restless legs
  • decrease pain
  • quicken falling asleep
  • limit night wakings
  • lower blood pressure

While our weighted blankets comes with a standard amount of fill (listed below) more hulls may easily be ordered from their product here. General recommendations are that the blanket weighs 10% of your body weight. A zipper along the long side of the blanket lets you add or subtract as much fill as you want to adjust its weight. More millet hulls, available by the lb. are here.

To save you the trouble of emptying your weighted blanket, every time you want to wash the fabric, select the duvet cover option for the same size blanket as desired. These duvet covers are madeof the same GOTS organic sateen fabric as the weighted blankets and are sized for the blankets here, not for our comforters.

Our dimensions have considered the size of each mattress and added in a little bit extra to accommodate the height of the sleeper. The blankets are not designed to drape over the sides of the bed, merely to rest on the surface and envelope the sleeper.

Crib/Throw: 32″ x 50″ – 4.5 lb. millet hulls
Twin: 42″ x 75″ – 12 lb. millet hulls
Full: 58” x 75” – 20.5 lb. millet hulls
Queen: 64” x 80” – 26  lb. millet hulls
King: 80” x 80” – 37 lb. millet hulls

To hear a story about why we chose to offer this millet hull weighted blanket, watch our video here.

To sew a millet hull weighted blanket, see its kit here.

DIY Mattress: Common Combinations

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While DIY combinations for your mattress are almost limitless, there are a few configurations of our products that are commonly combined. The pillows are deliberately matched with each combo to match the softness or firmness of the mattress. Here are some of common combinations:

FOR ADULTS:

(Soft Combo – generally for adults under 250 lbs.)

(Average Combo – generally for adults under 180 lbs.)

(Firm Combo – the most natural option, compares to an Extra Firm option without the topper, Firm with the topper)

(Extra Extra Firm Option – for those who like sleeping on the floor but want some cushion)

FOR CHILDREN:

(Starter Option that saves on the budget now and leaves room to grow later)

Zip Off Waterproof Ticking

Zip Off Waterproof Ticking

A puddle pad and ticking combined into one.  This ticking enables all the convenience of moisture protection, right where you need it, on the top. The top layer of waterproof jersey fabric is sewn with a four-sided separating zipper to the twill sides and bottom, so the top layer can completely zip off for machine washing, leaving the sides of the ticking still on your mattress. There is no need to move your heavy layers of latex to wash this ticking since the top layer is easily accessible.

This mattress case is less expensive and certainly more convenient than buying a puddle pad and ticking separately.

This GOTS waterproof jersey is the same material as in our puddle pads. This GOTS waterproof fabric is made from two thin sheets of soft, jersey knit fabric that are laminated together with a GOTS certified laminate, the only GOTS certified product of its kind. The fabric is soft and very flexible. It does not crunch nor alter the feel of your bedding. It does a fantastic job blocking moisture from penetrating to your mattress or pillow. It even serves a dust mite and allergy barrier. It is not plastic. It does not sound, feel or act like plastic.

The GOTS twill is strong and sturdy. It will have more strength than the Knit Ticking but less than the Quilted Ticking. It is the same fabric we use in our Twill Ticking, ideal for encasing our wool flake in your DIY wool mattresses.

Custom sizes are also available with this zip off feature.

Personalized Experience

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I can’t talk enough about how amazing DIY Natural Bedding is!!! I worked with the owner, Deborah. She personalized this experience in a very wonderful way. DIY Natural Bedding has the most amazing customer service and they work with you personally to get everything just perfect. My bed is now 100% healthy and natural. I feel so amazing sleeping in my new bed (all 100% natural latex Dunlop / Talalay mattress and pillows). DIY Natural Bedding (Deborah – Owner) did absolutely everything perfectly to make my experience not only stress-free but customized, personalized and memorable for life. I will be using her company when I want to have custom, preshrunk 100% cotton duvet covers made in the future. The organic shredded latex pillows are also absolutely the best I have ever slept on (and I have tried so many pillows it isn’t even funny). I have thoracic and cervical spondylitic myelopathy from a parachuting accident while in the Army, a car accident with extreme whiplash and a crushed sternum from the seat belt, and an almost fatal cliff-diving accident. I have tried every cervical pillow, chiropractic pillow and memory foam pillow (even with magnets) and these custom pillows from DIY Natural Bedding are absolutely the best in the world for your neck. I love the custom body pillows also. Any size pillow you want they will make and provide you with natural substances to fill them with. Amazing!!! I absolutely had the best experience with DIY Natural Bedding and the owner, Deborah. This company was so incredibly interested in my every request, my every need and my every concern. They asked me all of the right and pertinent questions to get me the exact products so that I would be happy with and proud of my bed for decades to come. Thank you so very much, Deborah. You are the best!!! Jeffrey (Iowa)

Wool and Buckwheat Hull DIY Mattress

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For the first layer, I used a wool mattress pad that I had for a few years.  Next I used two layers of your wool batting and put the buckwheat hull pillow inserts I made on top of the wool batting.  I made the pillow inserts out of organic cotton twill.  Then I pulled the two layers of wool batting on top to cover the pillow inserts.  Finally I zipped it all up and was done!  It came out pretty well, I think.  I’m going to see what it’s like sleeping on it for a while and might decide to add more wool batting at some point.

UPDATE: After sleeping on it for a few nights, I ended up putting the buckwheat hull pillows on top of the layers of wool batting.  That seems to work better somehow.  I think it makes the buckwheat pillows a little more adjustable.  It’s very comfortable now although I still might add more layers of wool batting at some point. – L. G.

Sateen Sheets, GOTS Organic

GOTS Organic Sateen Sheets

These sheets are on backorder until February due to price increases we figuring out how to balance.

How about a soft, never crisp, though always fresh, 100% organic cotton sheet to add that last bit of comfort to your mattress? A finishing touch to your bed that will outlast any jersey sheet you try.

With a light drape, the fabric of these sheets is so simply luxurious, wedding dresses feature its cool smoothness. Purity is the description of GOTS organic cotton: these organic sheets contain no polyester threads, no microfiber, no pesticides even.

The sateen fabric is the same that we use on our wool toppers, wool comforters and inner pillow cases.

The crib fitted sheet comes with a depth of 8″ and all other sizes, a depth of 17″.

Custom sizes available, contact us.

Crib size only available in fitted sheet for now.

Cloth Napkins, Set of 4

Organic Cloth Napkin

Using the same fabric we use for our Twill Ticking and most inner case for custom upholstery, we have made your table bright and your guests clean with these 100% cotton and 100% organic cloth napkins. The fabric is grown and processed here in the USA, specifically Arizona and Texas.

Beeswax Wrap, Set of 6

beeswax wraps

Using the same 100% organic fabric we use for our wool toppers and wool comforters and inner pillow cases, we have crafted a replacement for plastic wrap in your kitchen with the beeswax wrap. The fabric is grown and processed here in the USA, specifically Arizona and Texas.

Use is easy:

  1. Place wrap on top of bowl.
  2. Using warm hands, bend the wrap around the edges of the bowl.

They may be washed with soap and COLD water. Warm water will melt the beeswax and enough warm water will cause it to start running off of the fabric.

Set of 6:
1 large, 13″ x 13″
2 medium, 10″ x 10″
3 small, 7″ x 7″

Mulitpurpose Cloths, Set of 4

Organic Cloth, Multipurpose

Here is bringing organic right into your daily routines, using the same fabric we use in our Knit Ticking, Expandable Knit Ticking, Quilted Ticking, and outer pillow cases. These multipurpose cloths are soft and washable. They are thick, durable and perfect for

  • baby messes
  • burp cloths
  • window cleaning
  • dusting
  • spills
  • the extra cloth in your purse for who knows what or when
  • (don’t gasp) reusable toilet paper

Wash as normal. Hot water, strong soaps and hot dryers are just fine for the fabric as well as gentle washes and soaps.

Oven Mitt

organic oven mitt, wool

This organic oven mitt will keep the heat away from your hands with its thick layer of wool felt quilted between two layers of twill fabric. Consider your hands flame protected as well. Wool has one of the highest burning points of all fabrics, 570F to ignite when touched with a flame, compared to cotton at 255F. For interest’s sake, polyesters will melt at 150F and ignite around 430F. Wool does not melt.

This oven mitt is made using the same fabric we use for our Twill Ticking and most inner case for custom upholstery, that is grown and processed here in the USA, specifically Arizona and Texas. It is also made with our Wool Felt fabric that we use for our DIY and finished puddle pads.

Hand wash with mild soap and lukewarm water. Line dry.

 

Hot Pad

organic hot pad

This organic hot pad will keep the heat away from your hands with its thick layer of wool felt quilted between two layers of twill fabric. Consider your hands flame protected as well. Wool has one of the highest burning points of all fabrics, 570F to ignite when touched with a flame, compared to cotton at 255F. For interest’s sake, polyesters will melt at 150F and ignite around 430F. Wool does not melt.

This oven mitt is made using the same fabric we use for our Twill Ticking and most inner case for custom upholstery, that is grown and processed here in the USA, specifically Arizona and Texas. It is also made with our Wool Felt fabric that we use for our DIY and finished puddle pads.

Hand wash with mild soap and lukewarm water. Line dry.

 

Win all around!

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Wool Comforter

I love my wool comforter! I used to get such crazy dreams when I slept under my standard polyester comforter, but now, I sleep much more peacefully.  I still dream, but none of the twisted ones that make you wonder what is in your head.

For myself, I bought a regular weight and a lightweight comforter; in retrospect, I would buy two lightweight ones to tie together for the winter inside the same duvet cover so I don’t have to pack one up for a season, like the DIY tab in the comforter suggests.

I run cold and find the lightweight one to be perfect for 70 degree air conditioning in the summer and the regular weight one works for me for most of the winter months. I do keep the comforter inside a duvet cover to make keeping them clean easy. I find that my linen duvet cover adds a bit of warmth to the comforter, probably similar to another lightweight blanket or a few sheets.

The organic sateen fabric really adds a classy, finished touch too. I tried to get by on the cheap and use some leftover non organic cotton fabric for my first comforter and while it works, the sateen DIY offers that is on my second comforter is smooth and has a slight shine to it, a nice presentation.

I made my kids flannel duvet covers for their wool comforters and they love the cozy, soft feel. They can’t keep layers of blankets on them in the winter and these comforters are perfect to keep them warm.

I’m very happy with these five wool comforters! Thanks DIY Natural Bedding for a great product that ensures my warmth and sweet sleep as well as supports consciously raised sheep, organic farming and small businesses. Win all around.

Organic Color Grown Curtains

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organic curtains

Using fabric that was not dyed but was woven with different colors of cotton to create its pattern, I was happy to see this fabric four years after I purchased the same from NearSea Naturals (who sold to Organic Cotton Plus). Then, we used this versatile fabric for a futon ticking, now, using even organic thread, this customer had us turn the fabric into curtains.