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  Yay! So happy that dear Imke Janoschek at fabulous magazine Residence found us interesting enough to do a feature! And two pages! Absolutely fantastic! We´ve had such great response! Thank you! Many people have emailed us with questions about the products, but also about the way we work. Tremendous fun! Due to the attention, we are running low on items- but that is the great part. It feels so good to place new orders with our producers! Then we know we help make sure that women get work with fair pay, and artisans can carry on producing their wonderful...

Lovely Mari Strenghielm sent us this gorgeous image. Our pretty organic kitchen towel in a beautiful kitchen. Images for Sandberg tapeter/Villa Dalarö. Thank you for sharing, Mari! 

Very proud indeed! Nya rum!

When growing organic cotton you can´t use genetically modified seed. Fertilisers and pesticides are banned as well. 2-3 times a year, the cotton is picked- by hand. Drip irrigation is often used which helps save water, and by picking the cotton by hand you avoid ending up with soil that has become rock solid due to very heavy machines. Soil that is loose need less watering. Kind of goes without saying really. Amazingly- to one kilo conventionally grown cotton farmers can use 1 kg of chemicals and 30.000 liters (!) of water. To put that in perspective- that equals about...