Textiles standards & trade group
The Textiles Standards & Trade Group has been established from the Textile Standards Committee to provide a more direct link to and forum for organic textile businesses. It will meet two to three times per year. We aim to have a wide spread of appropriate expertise on the group including consumer, public and trade interest representatives. The Textiles Standards & Trade Group remit is to develop and keep under review our textiles standards and to deal with issues from GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standards), licensees, Soil Association members, the public or our certification department.
Agendas of meetings
We like to keep our standards setting process as transparent as possible. Meeting agendas are available below.
Issues that have arisen in meetings
- Copper dyes
- Social standards
- Global Organic Textiles Standards
Current group members and their expertise
- Andrew Filarowski: Society of Dyers and Colourists
- Kate Fletcher: eco textile consultant
- Chris King: licensee - textiles
- William Lana: Chair and licensee - textiles and retailer
- Sarah Ratty: ethical textile designer
- Phil Patterson, RITE Group
- Emilie Short: lay representative
- Mariusz Stochaj: Continental Clothing
- Neil Chadwick: seasalt
- Susie Hewson: Bodywise
- Simon Ferrigno: organic and sustainable cotton
- Rhiannon Rowley: Abaca
The group met on 8th July 2010 to discuss responses to the Global Organic Textile Standards on the revision to their standards version 2.0.