The Golden Thread Quotes

“In Indonesia, bamboo is often planted over the site of felled trees to produce fabrics that can then be marketed as being “renewable” and environmentally friendly. Because rayon is made from cellulose, it is ripe for greenwashing, especially when consumers are fuzzy about how it’s made.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

“The name likely comes from its place of origin: it was originally a thick woollen serge cloth from the French city of Nîmes. Over time, the cloth was increasingly made elsewhere using cheap cotton and the words ‘serge de Nîmes’ were mumbled down to ‘denim’.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History

“Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials.”
― Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History