sustainability
My mission is to offer you a choice.
You can buy sustainable, traceable cashmere from me, where every step of the way care has been taken to honour the beautiful fibre, the animals that grew it and the people that spun it. I have taken great care over dyeing it beautiful colours to send to you.
You don't have to buy acrylic yarn and fill the oceans with micro plastic. You don't have to buy viscose / bamboo / rayon and pollute the environment with the toxic chemicals it takes to turn trees into yarn and you don't have to buy poor quality cashmere from stressed kashmir goats on over-grazed farms.
You also don't have to take my word for it that my cashmere yarn is sustainable as organisations have checked that for us with certification.
These are the certifications my cashmere holds:
Good Cashmere Standard: a certification which stands for sustainably sourced cashmere from farms where goats are treated responsibly, the environment is protected and the social, ecological and economic living conditions of cashmere farmers and their families are respected. The Good Cashmere Standard is an initiative of the Aid by Trade Foundation with the aim of creating, promoting and implementing a benchmark standard for sustainable cashmere.
Responsible Wool Standard (RWS): this certification ensures that the wool comes from farms with a progressive approach to managing their land and treat their sheep responsibly. The goals of the RWS are to provide a tool to recognise the best practices of farmers to ensure wool comes from farms that uphold the highest environmental, ethical and socially responsibly standards.
ISO9001 - quality management systems and best practice
ISO14001 - quality and the environment
OEKO-Tex Standard 100 (EU Trusted Textiles)
GOTS Organic Textile Standard
Global Recycled Standard
Five Freedoms as defined by the Animal Welfare Council:
1. Freedom from hunger and thirst
2. Freedom from injury and disease
3. Freedom of comfortable living
4. Freedom to express nature
5. Freedom from fear or pain