GOTS Certified Clothing Singapore
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At the very first step, the organic cotton fields are tended by 400 families of farmers near Indore (in the state of Madhya Pradesh of India)
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The farmers grow certified organic cotton on approx 5 acres of land owned by them. They use non-GMO seeds and zero pesticides.
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The cotton is delivered to the ginning mill in truckloads.
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The cotton is then hand fed onto a machine to be delivered across the complex to the next stage.
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The raw cotton is sent to the ginning machine which seperates the cotton fibres from the seed.
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The cotton seeds are added to the seed pile. Most of these seeds are repacked and sent to the farmers for replanting. Reducing their dependance towards multinationals.
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The cotton fibres collected are then sent to a big machine which makes big bales of compressed cotton for shipping all around India.
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These bales are put into a storage room ready to get picked up and delivered to the spinning factory.
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In the spinning factory, a bale plucker takes a small layer of fibre from the top of all the bales on each pass and transfer it to a cleaning line to further remove foreign objects.
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Next the fibre is fed into a carding machine which condense it into a single, continuous, loose rope called sliver.
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The slivers then go through a process known as lap preparation which combines a number of slivers into wound, flat ribbon, needed for combing.
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During combing, short fibres and any final waste is removed from the cotton.
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The cotton then gets spun into twine of different weights and sizes for various uses.
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The yarn gets knitted or woven into fabric lengths by a futuristic looking machine.
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Each batch of fabric is quality checked before being moved on to production.
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It then gets dyed and rechecked for colour consistency and stacked ready for cutting.
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Next the cut pieces are sent for screen print.
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While others are sewn together into our Kalila garments.
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After sewing and finishing each garment is checked and packed ready for shipment.
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The boxes are finally received at our warehouse!