Sustainability
We build clothes the slow way: natural fibres, colour drawn from plants, and not a gram of plastic anywhere in the making.
No plastic in production
Plastic is the default of modern clothing — polyester thread, nylon tape, synthetic interfacing, resin coatings, the film every garment is wrapped in before it leaves a factory. We took it out.
- No synthetic fibres blended into our fabrics.
- No plastic-based trims, coatings or finishes.
- No poly bags in the workshop, no plastic wrap between the sewing floor and you.
What is left is cloth you can trace: linen, cotton, ramie, bamboo, lyocell and silk — fibres that came from a field and can return to one.
Colour from plants only
Every colour in the collection comes out of a dye bath, not a chemical formula. Indigo leaf for the deep blues and blacks. Ebony bark, mangosteen rind, myrobalan and marigold for the greys, browns and sand tones you see through the season.
The dyeing is done by hand, in small batches, in Thailand. Plant dye behaves like the plant it came from: two pieces cut from the same cloth will never be identical, and the colour keeps shifting quietly for years as it is worn and washed. We consider that the point, not a defect.
What it costs us
Working this way is slower and more expensive. Batches are small because a dye vat is small. Restocks take longer because a plant has a season. We would rather make less and be able to say exactly what is in it.
Caring for plant-dyed cloth
- Wash cold, by hand or on a gentle cycle, with a pH-neutral soap.
- Keep it out of direct sun when drying — sunlight lifts plant colour faster than washing does.
- No bleach, no optical brighteners, no fabric softener.
- Wash darks separately for the first few washes.
Where we are going
We are not finished. Shipping materials, the dye water we return, and the offcuts from cutting are the next three things on our list, and we will publish what changes here as it changes.
Questions about materials or dyes? Write to sales@ya-sar.com.