New World Textiles
PO Box 1484-W
Black Mountain,
NC 28711-1484
828/669-1870

Providing
Organic Cotton
to
Hand Spinners
and
Hand Weavers

Since 1995


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 PROGRAMS and SEMINARS

 
Weaver's Choice Cotton, Charkha, Khadi
 

 
Weaver's Choice: Fiber in the Environmental and Social Landscape 
Duration: 2 hours 
Synopsis 
The seminar will include a slide show and resource notebook.  Topics move from raw fiber sources and production to end product and by-product usage. 
Fibers discussed will include cotton--the differences between conventional, sustainable, and organic agricultural practices, recycled cotton, naturally colored cotton, and cotton properties. The terms used in marketing organic cotton and its look-alikes will be explained.  Recycling of cotton will be discussed with an update on the state of the art. 
A discussion of mill by-products and waste products will follow, with slides, samples, and ideas for re-use and recycling. 
 
 
 
 

Cotton, Charkha, Khadi 
Duration: 1 hour 
Synopsis 
One woman’s journey from dirt to shirt.
A slide show and discussion of cotton, from growing it to spinning and weaving it. Included will be a discussion of clever things a spinner can do with simple tools The possible variations in color control and twist levels and their results on the fabric will be discussed.  Show and tell –and handle!--will follow.