When it comes to eco-friendly fabrics, most people would expect cotton to top the list. But they’d be wrong. “The plant that’s easiest to cultivate is not necessarily the best — a kilo of cotton requires around a kilo of pesticides and other chemicals to grow.
It’s a terrible polluter,” says designer Hemant Sagar. “But we’ve built cotton into our consciousness because we associate it with the national movement. Now consider ramie, a fabric made from the nettles that grow wild in rainfall-rich states like Meghalaya in northeast India. ...
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First Published: Sat, March 03 2018. 05:55 IST
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