The Conscious Couturier: Thai Textiles Shape Sustainable Fashion

The fashion industry had been known for its overconsumption, mass production, and along with it, major greenhouse emissions. However, this is not the reality of Thai textile producers like Tohsang.

Tohsang Cotton Village is a women-led cotton textile producer and learning center in Kongchiam, Ubon Ratchathani. The Village grows cotton, padauk trees, and indigos as part of an environmentally friendly and sustainable production of textile products.

From the use of rice water (or sao khao) to prime cotton threads before looming to the natural gradient weaving of white-brown ombre cotton, the Village brings life to the traditional and environmental wisdom of Thai textile production....

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