Apartment Therapy: fabric & textiles

Cosa Verde Find: Beautiful Kitchen Towels by Home Sweet

Have you ever checked out Cosa Verde? If you haven't, we highly recommend it. It's like Etsy for treehuggers. We just found these kitchen towels (and we've only just started browsing)......

Hemp
Material Obsessions

No wait! Don’t skip this post! When you think of the words “hemp” most of us picture hippies dressed in sloppy, burlap-looking clothing—there might be a hacky-sack involved. But using hemp a...

An Upholstering Primer: Part 1 of 4 — Consider Your Furniture
Guest Post from Matthew Haly of The Furniture Joint

Having something upholstered or custom-made is a complex endeavor — and for most people it is a world that is unknown. Taking your sofa in to be reupholstered is similar to taking your car to...

How To: Make Your Own No-Sew Cloth Napkins
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Awhile back we promised a post on how to make your own cloth napkins (even if you have zero sewing skills). Well, here it is! These beauties take a little cutting, ironing, minor sewing, and voila! ...

Repeat: The Lovechild of Bookhou and Bespoke Uprising
The Handmade Home

Re-Nest is starting a new feature called The Handmade Home. Send us an email if you're interested in submitting yourself for a spotlight feature, or if you have a great recommendation. Two incredib...

Etsy Find: Upcycled Sweater Crafts

When we saw this felted wool cactus in a tiny pot, you could've knocked us over with a feather. What a perfect piece of kitsch for any space. On a stack of books on the coffee table? On a bedstand? ...

Mod Green Pod's New Organic Solid Fabrics!

We just love the gorgeous fabrics from Austin company Mod Green Pod. Made with fun colors, pretty patterns and 100% certified organic cotton, we can't wait to see projects made with their new line o...

Jewelweeds
The Handmade Home

Re-Nest is starting a new feature called The Handmade Home. Send us an email if you're interested in submitting yourself for a spotlight feature, or if you have a great recommendation. We stumbled ...

How To: Make Fabric Covered Hangers

Ahh, finally a way to reuse those dry cleaner wire hangers — and we're not talking about jimmying car doors open here. We're talking reusing them as hangers, but prettier......

Green Style: Amazing Shaker Design Wall Curtains

Insta-wallpaper for renters? I've loved Shaker peg rails for a long time, especially because they are so multi-purpose. BUT I'd never known that the Shakers also used them during the winter to help ...

FTC Announces That Bamboo Fabrics Are Actually Rayon

Uh-oh. You've probably heard by now that last month the Federal Trade Commission charged four companies that sell bamboo-made textiles with false advertising for claiming their products were still b...

Building with Hemp: Hemcrete by Tradical

Yet another use for hemp! Hempcrete, a bio-composite building material made by Tradical — containing little more than hemp, lime and water — is carbon negative, completely recyclable and...

Hot or Not? Naturally Water Repellent Fabric

Ok, so this new fabric was designed with fashion in mind, but outdoor furniture requires water repellency just as much as your rain jacket. Designed by Italian outerwear company Allegri, the new tex...

Top 5: Eco-Friendly Textiles You've Never Heard Of

We know you've heard of organic cotton, bamboo and hemp textiles, but what about textiles made from algae? Soy? Pine pulp? Stinging nettles? (Yes, stinging nettles.) We have a few surprises in ...

Singtex S. Cafe: Fabrics Created from Used Coffee Grounds

While bamboo fabric has become mainstream, there seem to be plenty of other naturally occurring plants from which durable and long lasting fabrics could potentially be derived. One company in Taiwan...

RAW by Union 18: Handmade Rugs from Recycled Carpet

Husband-and-wife team Todd and Meg van der Kruik make up Union 18, a design studio based out of Long Beach, California. Their design focus is right up our alley: they create sustainable art and h...

Eunsuk Hur Nomadic Wonderland Textile Design

Can something be sustainable simply by being transformative? Eunsuk Hur makes you question what her design exactly is.. Wall art? Fashion? A cushion or a blanket? ...

11 of the Greenest Upholstery Textiles

We were delighted to open our Treehugger email this morning to discover an article listing their eleven favorite eco upholstery fabrics, including their criteria for a "green" fabric... ...

Eco Linen by Calvin Fabrics

We love linen. The look is earthy and sensual, and it filters light beautifully. True linen should be made from flax fibers (as opposed to synthetic fibers, which is more commonplace nowadays) and...

Organic Modern Furniture by Kenneth Cobonpue

Inspired by his mother’s production of rattan furniture, Kenneth Cobonpue has created amazingly beautiful, innovative modern furniture using natural fibers and materials. Integrating organic mater...

Inspiration and Tips from Mod Green Pod
Austin

We've all probably had that unfinished project lying around our home every now and then. Like a chair you bought off Craigslist that would be absolutely gorgeous if only you found the time/inspirat...

Organic Textiles from Ortolan

Ortolan is the handiwork of sister designers Bethany and Jenna Mallet, former Ohio farm girls currently based out of Manhattan. Their line of organic textiles — including kitchen tea towels, c...

Style and Substance: Reversible Totes from Green Girl

We've posted quite a bit recently on reusable bags (and more reusable bags). Maybe it's because the warmer weather has us thinking about farmer's markets, flea markets, our CSA share — all o...

GreenBox from Ecolect

So, you want to build green. But where do you start? What are the latest and best materials? Well, online sustainable materials library Ecolect has the answer. They've just launched an annual m...

Etsy Find: Upcycled, No-Waste Lunch Kits

We've been tightening up our budget and trying to save every penny possible for plenty of reasons, which means more and more brown-bag lunches. But we've also been looking for a cute bag to take to wo...

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