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O Ecotextiles to Debut Sustainable Textiles at West Coast Green

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SEATTLE—Seattle-based O Ecotextiles will brings its “sensuous yet sustainable” textiles for the first time to West Coast Green’s conference and expo, September 25-27, 2008 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. One of O Ecotextiles’ new prints also was chosen by EcoFabulous.com to grace the master bedroom of the Showhouse at West Coast Green.

For the company, whose line with top British designer Emily Todhunter won a House & Garden magazine award at Decorex 2007 in the U.K., their message is simple, direct and firm: 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. O Ecotextiles produces organic fabrics, not just fabrics made with organic fibers.

The O Ecotextiles Collection—made from bamboo, hemp, abaca, ramie, linen and silk—offers 14 fabric choices (plus three from the Emily Todhunter Collection) and multiple colorways, plus custom. The textiles are ideal for window coverings; top-of-bed; upholstery and outdoor use.

O Ecotextiles adheres to the more stringent global standards, offering some of the very first GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) fabrics, as well as Oeko Tex Standard 100 certified yarns and/or fabrics. The fabrics have also been tested by an indoor air quality testing lab to measure chemical emissions; results demonstrate that the fabrics can be used to accrue LEED points for indoor air quality. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the air quality in an average home is 10 times more polluted than outdoor air. LEED points can also be accrued through Design Innovation and Rapidly Renewable Resources areas.

The company was founded by two sisters from Seattle: Patty Grossman, CEO, and Leigh Ann Van Dusen, general manager/U.S. Inspired by her children to “go green” on a sofa reupholster, but wanting as sumptuous fabrics as possible within that parameter, Van Dusen started doing research and hooked in her sister. Finding nothing that filled the niche of truly healthy and safe and luxurious textiles, and horrified by the toxic nature of the textile process and final product, they spent four years scouring the world to find those that would help them make each step of their production “green”, with a healthy product for the end user.

Go to O Ecotextiles.

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