Organic cotton

As i had mentioned in my previous post about Organic cotton yarn from Turkey , i was in Turkey for the last few months. I managed to visit a lot of factories there for several meetings and educational purposes for the workers. Honestly, the level of social accountability and professional approach to the business impressed me a lot.

Most of the factories were using the latest technologies for the spinning and knitting the organic cotton. I must confess that Turkish producers are the most expert ones in the organic cotton industry. Especially the company named Parko Organic Textiles really impressed me while i was at their place in Izmir. I managed to have a long conversation with the sales manager of the clothing department, Mr. Caglayan Par.

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Well it has been some time since my latest blog on this board.
I was very busy with several seminars across India, Turkey and Usa for the local farmers regarding the benefits of organic farming.

Problems with the organic cotton quality for the Indian cotton are still the same. The GMO issue is also still a very big problem which i had mentioned shortly on my previous Big problems with Indian organic cotton! post.

During my visits the huge yarn spinning facilities in Turkey impressed me a lot. Read the rest of this entry »

Well it had been 10 days since my latest post on this blog. I visited the Istanbul Yarn Fair in Turkey met new spinners that had just started organic cotton yarn production.
Anyway, today I will try to explain the difference between dyed organic cotton fabric and raw organic cotton fabric.
In the first years of organic cotton fabric production, everybody was only thinking about the raw cotton and the ecru colour. All the organic garments were ecru and simple designs. However, it is now possible to make any colour within organic standards. The only exception is the optical/snowy white colour. You can not achive that much white colour without using heavy chemicals which are causing cancer and obviously non-organic!
So here is a tip for you:
If you are willing to buy an organic apparel and the salesman offers you an optical white colour, you can be sure that he/she is lying!

This subject is very critical and I will continue on this at my next post shortly.

Well it has been some time since my latest blog post about Indian organic cotton and the problems. I was busy all week and now i have some time to tell a little more about the organic cotton farming.

First off all, the fields or the seeds are not different for organic cotton than the conventional cotton. The main difference is the used & non-used chemicals. While farming cotton seed, you have to use a lot of water (which is very bad considering the global warming issues) and you have to use several pesticides. Those pesticides are used mostly for keeping the bugs away from the cotton and crop. And pesticides are accepted worldwide to be highly carcinogenic (canser-causing).

However water takes those Read the rest of this entry »

As i had tried to explain in my previous post about fake organic cotton, it is really hard to trust people while you are trying to manage a multinational global business. Besides that, most of us only look for the best price. Price is mostly the number one factor that effects ouor choices for the manufacturer choosing decisions.India, Turkey, USA, Peru and Tanzania are the few leading organic cotton farmers in the world. Tanzanian(and the other African) organic cotton is cheap and fair traded however the quality is so poor to make any nice piece of clothing from that cotton. So this cotton is mostly used for towels and bathrobes, bedlinen etc.The second cheapest organic cotton is mostly coming from India. Read the rest of this entry »

It is not a secret now that the demand for organic clothing is rising quickly. People are willing to buy more natural clothing to themselves to prevent from harmful chemicals that are used at several textile processes.

However, there are also some clever people who are trying to make more money on using this weakness of people. I mean how will you trust that the t-shirt you purchased is really organic? There are 3 common usages of organic cotton.

a) You use the normal/conventional cotton and claim that it was organic. Read the rest of this entry »

People are at the moment becoming increasingly responsive that we requisite to save from harm our environment. That is why we are seeing a lot of sustainable advancement plans that have been produced by various companies.

Many companies are now manufacturing biological baby clothing for infants and paternity are immediately adopting these materials.Organic cotton baby clothing has recently made its ghost in the world of baby fashion and there are several parents that are switching to this material. They are sentence it helps appearance after the future of their world for all the family.

One of the disadvantages of nonchemical fiber baby clothing is that it is relatively affluent compared to ordinary clothing. Read the rest of this entry »

With a responsiveness of the amount of biological usage in cotton production and the resulting ecological loss, there is worry about conventional cotton production, and a move to nonchemical cotton production. Organic cotton making has low environmental collision and aims to build and keep soil richness and build a biologically varied agricultural routine.

Independent certification confirms that organic makers comply with true criteria.Organic cotton production mirrors only 0.05 percent of the universal cotton production. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello to all,

This is my very first post on my new organic cotton blog. I will be posting all my knowledge about organic cotton textile products to this blog and i will try to pass all my information to you in a short time being.

So please bookmark this organic cotton site and visit often.

Best Regards
Erik Cussack