This cotton table runner with mountain road pattern combines light blue with brown and white.
The blue yarn was dyed with the dye that comes from the indigo plant.
The brown and white cotton is undyed.
You can see that the cotton was spun by hand by the uneven thickness of the yarn.
Look at the detail and you can see how the uneven threads intertwine nicely.
The fine and medium yarn was woven quite loosely to create an airy table runner.
Like our scarves, the table runner was made in Thailand.
The weaver receives a fair price for her work.
The runner is 195 cm long and 38 cm wide.
The cotton was woven on a wooden loom.
The weaver who made the table runner for you can earn extra income thanks to the sale of her fabrics when there is no yield from the land.
You pay her a fair price for her work with this purchase.
No pollution of nature
No chemicals pollute the rivers near our weavers.
That’s because the brown and white yarns of this table runner are not dyed.
The blue threads are dyed with dye that comes from the indigo plant.
That nature does not have to suffer in the making of this beautiful fabric fits right in with the times.
Before weaving, the yarn was immersed in rice water.
That way, the threads could be woven without breaking.
This makes the fabric feel slightly harder at first, but it only gets softer after each wash.
With time, you will start to appreciate this handcrafted accessory more and more.
Know that this is the result of days of weaving with care for detail and beauty.
From cotton to woven fabric
The cotton of this cotton table runner is hand-picked in the Thai countryside.
After picking the cotton, a spinner turned it into long threads.
No machine can fake this.
The yarn is dyed in dyes straight from nature.
Also read: Making your own indigo dye
Those threads were traditionally woven on a wooden loom.
Also read: The disadvantages of fast fashion
Gift tip
Now that you know how much time and thought went into this table runner, it might be hard to part with it.
Still, it’s a great way to put someone in the limelight with it.
The story of the fabric shows how much care you put into picking out your gift.
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