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Chinook - linen and hemp fabric

The fibers are spun into yarn and dyed in northern Italy using only low-impact fiber reactive dyes that have no chemical toxicity. Care is taken to treat the wastewater so that it does not contaminate the local environment.

The yarns are certified by Oeko-Tex to Standard 100. Oeko-Tex is a third party certifier; it measures the chemicals in fabrics which are known to impact human health. Their standard 100 is the most stringent, which means these yarns are safe enough for infants to put in their mouths.

The fabric is softened, bleached and/or dyed at an Italian dye house, which is one of relatively few houses in the world that is qualified to produce a dyed or finished fabric which can be a certified organic textiles. O Eco Textiles invested more than two years of research in to dyes in order to achieve color consistency, colorfastness and complete absence of toxicity. The dyes meet EU and Global Organic Textile Standards to be free of AZO colorants (a cancer causing toxin that is used in many dyes), heavy metals and aromatic amines and the dyestuffs are completely biodegradable (except for some of the blues which can contain copper).

The yarns are woven into the fabric at a mill in southern Italy that has been in the same location for over 100 years. This mill uses absolutely no sizers or de-sizers, in fact it uses no chemicals at all throughout the production process, avoiding chemical baths that degrade the yarn's quality and inherent strength.

The fabrics are softened with a combination of beeswax, aloe vera and vitamin E.