If you are interested in buying organic fabric, read on. This is a Las Vegas co-op. Non-local members can join by referral also.

Jean runs a buying co-op. It's a buying co-op for organic textiles mainly for her own use and for those in her circle; also it can be for other useful healthy oriented or organic products. Sometimes we buy food or organic spices wholesale.

For the home sewers - we buy organic fabric for our own home sewing projects. Jean runs the project, and her role is to source wholesale fabric, and it is always organic, always stuff not available locally, and always at a discount to retail pricing. Jean charges the cost of the fabric plus a handling fee for each order. It's lots cheaper than one person buying the same thing at retail cost because Jean only buys from wholesale sellers, and has trade references so the retail buyer could not buy the same items at the same pricing.

All material is organic. Most is undyed, unprinted and unbleached. Last item purchased was a blend of hemp and silk, in a 58 inch wide jacquard suitable for apparel or home decor, curtains, pillowslips, blouses and summer dresses. The one before that was 60wide interlock; the one before that was waffle-weave toweling. All the fabric is cream-white, or white if bleached (generally with peroxide or a non-chlorine bleach), except the colorgrown cottons which are a deep beige (very light brown) or colorgrown-green which is a very light gray with a slightly green tint (yes, all undyed !! Cotton grows in about 4 colors naturally !) . The fabrics are generally ring-spun cottons, but also other fibers are available. In some cases the silk is not organic but it is plain white and ready to dye. If you are not local, you are welcome to join but you would have to pay the additional postage cost (probably will be worthwhile for you if you are not able to obtain organic cottons locally). Textiles have been a part of human life for millennia, but only recently have we turned it into such an environmentally polluting affair in both the production and disposal of textiles. In the old days the majority of individuals had textiles that could be safely put into the garden compost heap to decompose. We can't do that now due to the toxic dyes and poisonous colorant-fixatives.