The yarn of this cotton tablecloth is dyed with indigo dye extracted naturally from plants.
The threads are medium in thickness and were tightly woven.
They were spun by hand.
This indigo blue cotton tablecloth, like our scarves, was made in Thailand.
The weaver gets a fair price for her work.
She wove in a pattern of small squares (square pattern).
For this, she used alternating white and blue yarn.
The fabric is 160 cm long and 62 cm wide.
The cotton was woven on a wooden loom.
The weaver who made the tablecloth 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 at our weavers.
That’s because the blue yarn of this tablecloth is coloured with natural indigo dye.
That nature does not have to suffer in the making of this beautiful fabric is entirely in keeping with our times.
Yet the dyeing and weaving techniques used by the weaver are centuries old.
Before weaving, the yarn was immersed in rice water.
This 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.
You will start to appreciate this handmade 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 tablecloth, it might be hard to part with it.
Still, it makes a wonderful and original gift for someone dear to you.
The story of the fabric shows how much care you put into picking out your gift.
