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Your dinner table deserves to be dressed in elegant linens just as much as your bed. Whether it's your grandma's antique dining room set or a generic piece you picked up from the store, adorning a table top with linens makes any occasion a special occasion whether you're hosting a Supper Club night or not.
Make sure to pick out linens that work in harmony with our planet, rather than against it. What makes linens eco-friendly? The ideal linens are made with a minimum amount of chemicals and pesticides. Non-organic cotton accounts for a huge amount of pesticides, which are used on crops and can end up at your table. These commonly used pesticides can cause nervous disorders, liver disease, and cancer. The picture is even bleaker for the people employed to spray pesticides directly on cotton before textile production. Plant workers can die from exposure. Also look for products that adhere to fair trade practices, so you can be sure that the people making your high quality goods are treated fairly and paid a decent wage.
When you're shopping for green linens, look for more natural fabrics like hemp, derived from the hemp plant. It's the strongest fabric known to man. Jute is close to hemp in texture but derived from a type of vegetable fiber. Organic cotton is grown without the use of pesticides. Bamboo fiber is very comfortable and 100 percent biodegradable, while organic linen is made from flax fiber and grown organically.
Check out these eco-chic linen producers:
Ortonlan offers 100 percent certified organic cotton with 100 percent recycled packaging. Best of all, they employ talented artisans to come up with whimsical designs that transport you to a cottage in the coastal Carolinas. These inventive beach designs mean you don't have to sacrifice style while you're protecting the planet.
Green and More makes a Bohemian statement with their 100 percent certified organic materials and eco-friendly dyed table cloths and napkins. They are also a Domestic Fair Trade company that enables artists to make a good living from their craft in order to keep the traditional role of artists in our society alive.
Rawganique.com designs luxurious fine French linens and organic European hemp linens. They carry a wide selection of traditional linen table cloths, place mats, and table runners. Rawganique.com was founded in 2000 by Thammarath Jamikorn and Klaus Wallner as a family business that promotes sustainable organic cotton and hemp products. The founders were concerned about the fragile condition of our ecosystem and inspired to produce alternatives.
This post was inspired by Planet Green's show, Supper Club.
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