Tuesday

Peace silks, and other terms for dresses.

We've gotten mail from some organic suppliers, with interesting backgrounds on fabrics. For example, here is a blurb about peace silks from Puridee.com

"Ahimsa (without violence) also referred to as peace silk, is spun from cocoons where the silk caterpillar is allowed to complete the life-cycle and emerge as a moth...Tussah, is wild-crafted" thus, both organic and peace silk". The site also explains the sourcing of the woman-to-woman chain of micro-businesses: dyes in a woman-run farm in El Salvador, the spinning in India and in the US, etc.

If you click on the sketchy dress designs you can actually see the dresses, which are quite nice. It seems to be an LA location.

Another LA site, Annatarian, uses vintage and remnant fabrics and organics and incorporates family jewelry into your dress. Similar designs to Puridee.