Recent Posts Tagged With 'fabric'

• Second Chance Fabrics for Our Inner Green Craftiness

  Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 22:42 in crafts, fabric, home decor & accessories

  Photo by Merete Veian I am constantly searching the internet for vintage, used fabric.  My favorite haunts are Ebay and Ruby Lane, an online vintage store.  One night, I found Second Chance Fabrics, which sells pre-owned fabrics, patterns, and scr...

• Are Recycled Plastic Bottles Products Really Eco Friendly?

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 16:31 in fabric, plastic, home decor & accessories

  Photo courtesy of Shea Hazarian. I have always been a fan of companies such as Terracycle, which take our trash and create usable products.  But when I reflect on what wonderful work they are doing, I have to wonder is this a band-aid until we reali...

• Sina Pearson’s Earthly Green Fabric Collection: Sustainable, Durable, and Colorful

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 13:34 in sustainable, fabric, eco fabrics, sina pearson

  With Spring arriving , Sina Pearson unveiled  her newest sustainable collection,  Earthly Green, comprised of Big Dots and Eco-Pile.  Pearson is known as a  creative designer ahead of the curve and committed to the environment.  I have previousl...

• Think Twice Before You Buy Another Cotton T-shirt

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 14:24 in fabric, household products, cotton, clothing & accessories, home decor & accessories, cotton t-shirt, india & cotton, indian farmers & cotton, indian farmers & pesticides

    Watch this video about how the cotton in  your t-shirt is grown in India. Trust me, you will never buy another non-organic cotton t-shirt again especially when you see the amount of pesticides used and the harm it is causing the people using the...

• Top 10 2008 Green Building Products from BuildingGreen

  Posted on Sunday November 23rd, 2008 at 23:01 in gardening, fabric, building materials, buildinggreen, greenbuild 365, agileswave resource monitor, benjamin moore natura, buildinggreen top 10 2008 list, ingretity block, masonite emerald series safe n sound door, ny thermal matrix, o ecotextiles

  This week Boston, Massachusetts hosted the United States Green Building Council’s GreenBuild 365 ,drawing a crowd of over 29,000 people for lectures, green building exhibitions, and networking. During this week, Building Green LLC announced its...

• Rubie Green Fabrics are Gems to Behold

  Posted on Saturday June 21st, 2008 at 01:15 in fabric, green fabrics, re-upholstery, green home improvements, green home decor, rubie green

  Rubie Green’s Marilyn fabric If you follow Green Talk regularly, then you must know that I love fabric. Who else would take the time to research and write two different articles including 20 plus organic fabric companies? (See “Eco-Friendly...

• Eco-Friendly Fabrics are Gorgeous and Green!

  Posted on Saturday April 5th, 2008 at 14:57 in interior design, fabric, home decor, environmental, home improvements

  Photo courtesy of Q collection In my previous article, Eco-friendly Fabrics are no longer Shrinking Violets, Part I, I listed eleven different fabric companies making sustainable fabrics for sewing, drapes, upholstery, and other home decor accessori...

• Eco-Friendly Fabrics Are No Longer Shrinking Violets (Part I)

  Posted on Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 in home improvement, sustainable, interior design, fabric, fabrics, indoor air quality, nontoxic, eco-friendly fabrics

  Photo courtesy of Kravet of its Kravet Green line I have to admit I love fabric. Can you blame me? As I am folding mounds of laundry or on the treadmill, I am glued to the television set watching talent designers such as Candice Olson transform dull...

• Oliveira Textiles, Draping Your Home in Sustainability

  Posted on Friday February 8th, 2008 at 08:39 in furniture, fabric, home decor, household products, fabrics, drapes, gots, organic fabrics, nontoxic, upholstry, artistic fabrics

  Photo by permission of Oliveira Textiles featuring the Anemone red fabric design Art imitating life is how I would describe Oliveira Textiles’ newly designed sustainable fabric collection. Their new series, “Ocean,” is fluid, vibrant, and grac...