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Custom Eco-Friendly Screenprinting by Ecoprintworks

Jennifer Lance — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:20:43 +0000

Have you ever had a need for custom printing? Now there is an eco-friendly company that can fulfill these needs. Ecoprintworks uses sustainable organic products, from t-shirts to totes, and water-based inks for their screenprinting. Ecoprintworks is one of the few companies that uses Permaset Aqua, a solvent free, water-based ink from Australia. Most printers use PVC-based plastisol ink. PVC is largely regarded as one of the most harmful of plastics. Permaset Aqua are Oeko-tex certified class I meaning they are safe for children’s garments under two years of age.

Hand Printed Hemp Fabrics by Pippijoe

Becky Striepe — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:00:28 +0000

Caitlin, the artist behind Pippijoe, is an independent designer living in Melbourne, Australia. She prints her beautiful designs on 100% hemp or hemp/cotton blend fabrics using environmentally friendly inks.

Vantage Verve: Going for a Super Green Shirt

John Simonetta — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:09:55 +0000

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

The Verve line of organic cotton promotional t-shirts from Vantage Apparel seems to be going for the title of most green t-shirt available.

Like many other organic shirts in the promotional items industry Vantage starts with a non-bleached t-shirt made from organic cotton (i.e. no pesticides or petroleum fertilizers used to grow the cotton). At this point the shirt is similar to other organic shirts, like the AnvilOrganic line from Anvil Knit Wear (which by the way does come in different colors than just “natural”).