Tag: cotton

  • Fashion

    Fashion

    On average, it takes 10,000 litres of water to produce 1 kilo of cotton, or 2,500 to 3,000 litres for a standard T-shirt (250 to 300 grams of cotton). That’s a lot of water consumption for such a small piece of fabric! 4% of the world’s drinking water is used to produce our clothes. The…

  • Family sunglasses holder

    Family sunglasses holder

      As a mother of two children, I often end up carrying three pairs of sunglasses — on my T-shirt… It is not that convenient, so, I’ve thought about this little family sunglasses holder. My husband usually deals with his sunglasses, that’s why I’ve created one for three pairs. This is just an idea, this is…

  • Clean Clothes

    Clean Clothes

    Shirt on your back: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/apr/bangladesh-shirt-on-your-back To go further: https://labs.theguardian.com/unicef-child-labour Child Labour map: To know more about Clean clothes campaign: https://cleanclothes.org To know more about Better Work: http://betterwork.org About MFA (Multi Fiber Arrangement): https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/texti_e/texintro_e.htm Countries which have promoted MFA : Australia, Canada, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, United States. About Maker Culture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture