Ethical Fabric Suppliers with Small Minimum Order Quantities

In this interview, we chat with business owners working in small teams to produce fair and sustainable fabrics, mostly organic and with very well established producer relationships, about how they love and live sustainably across the whole supply chain. 

Learn about the entire process of developing non-woven textiles, from how it requires fewer steps, no additives and less water than conventional wool fabrics to the names of the sheep that provided the wool. By presenting natural coloured felt-like fabrics printed with pastel colours and metallic foil patterns, our interviewees have carved out a space for non­-woven textiles with fashion­-focussed aesthetics.

Handwoven fabrics form an integral part of Indian's rich textile culture and, in Bengal, the tradition is particularly strong with a significant cluster of handloom workers operating to produce everything from fine jacquard saris to khadi fabrics.

This interview with an expert in the field explains how handweaving clusters in East India operate, how they support family life and wellbeing, and why they are a stable form of livelihood for this area of the world.

This active document provides an ever-growing matrix of over 100 ethical sources of fashion fabrics, with a focus on small minimum order quantities.

In this video, Charlie Bradley Ross explains how to develop smooth and professional relationships with your suppliers, from getting to know them, to ironing out kinks, and even avoiding the things they hate!

Discover more about deadstock and end-of-the-line materials, where to find them, and whether they're actually an ethical solution with any positive environmental impact.

In September, we visited the London Textile Fair, where we were encouraged to see many more manufacturers taking up the sustainability mantle and even more delighted to see them offering small quantities to their clients. In this Lesson, we share some of our favourite finds, from leather to outerwear, to silk and wool. We've even made getting hold of them easier by including each supplier's websites and direct email addresses so you can quickly contact them.

Discover some of the best ethical fabrics and their global suppliers in this breakdown of our findings from the Future Fabrics Expo in London. We've highlighted our favourite finds from silk, to nettle, to regenerative cotton, and included suppliers with small minimum order quantities to help startup and SME fashion businesses.