Wilma’s Girl loves cotton fabric. Always have and always will, by using 100% cotton and occasionally 80% cotton/polyester blends. Wilma’s Girl supports the cotton industry and especially California cotton. Wilma’s Girl is a socially responsible, eco-friendly company, based in California with roots in the Central Valley. We look forward to the day when all cotton will be treated with love and without pesticides. We search the marketplace for organic cotton batiks because we want to bring a biodegradable earth friendly product to our friends. At the moment, the cost for farmers to grow clean organic cotton is higher than retailers are willing to pay. As a result, the market supply is severely limited and prices extremely high for organic cotton batiks, battings, threads and yarns.
We believe soon that ecology friendly global objectives will be applied to all fabric manufacturers. GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) www.global-standard.org and California’s SCP (Sustainable Cotton Project) www.sustainablecotton.org are both working steadily towards this goal.
Until all 100% cotton batik is organically clean, raised and harvested ethically from chemical free crops, using low impact dyes, we strongly encourage you to pre-wash our products in earth friendly, biodegradable detergent before using.