Natural fabrics

Adventurer or simple nature lover.
Do you love feeling close to nature and having the impression of being in harmony with it? Discover now at Verotex our natural materials: cotton, linen, wool, and viscose of exceptional quality with prices that will make the leaves fall from the trees, for your future sunny sewing days on the terrace sewing your next linen or cotton shorts for your grandchildren, or warm inside during a rainy evening next to the wood fire and its lovely crackling sounds.

Cotton:

Cotton, one of the most used fabrics in the world for millennia, was discovered in Asia and then appeared in Europe in the 1700s. Cotton is a plant fiber that surrounds a shrub called the cotton plant. When it blooms with its beautiful white or yellow five-petal flowers, cotton finally appears as small balls ready to be harvested for your greatest sewing pleasure. Mainly used for making t-shirts, washcloths, towels, you can quite roughly handle it; cotton is a very flexible and durable fabric. It has several very beneficial properties: it is absorbent and therefore extremely water-resistant. Cotton also has other advantages: it is insulating and withstands heat very well; it is a natural material. That’s why it is the most used and sold fabric in the world.

Linen:

Linen is mainly produced in Europe, in our French neighbors’ regions of Normandy and Picardy, where this light blue-flowered plant has been cultivated for centuries. During the harvest, there are several steps before linen is used as fabric: first, the flax plant is pulled from the ground, then dried for a few days. Once well dried, it is crushed to extract the precious material, the flax fiber, which is then woven to obtain our much-coveted fabric. A true thermal regulator, insulating in winter and breathable in summer, linen absorbs moisture, is naturally antibacterial and hypoallergenic. Linen is generally suitable for all uses.

Wool:

Wool is an animal-derived material; shearing takes place in spring and usually only once a year. Once shearing is done, the different parts are sorted and classified according to wool quality. Then the best parts are carefully selected, cleaned, and dried. Unfortunately, it’s not over yet: the wool must then be untangled in a process called carding. When this is finished, it can be dyed or left in its natural color. The final step is weaving to obtain your coveted and soft fabric. A true thermal insulator, wool will keep you warm during long cold periods in winter.

Viscose:

Viscose, or artificial silk, is a plant-based textile created by two Frenchmen in 1884 to meet the demand for a fabric similar to silk but more economical to produce. Viscose is a blend of cellulose carbohydrate, mainly from wood or other plants, and collodion, which replaces the use of silkworms, insects used in silk production. The properties of viscose are close to those of cotton: resistant and absorbent. However, the process gives it a silkier and more fluid appearance than cotton.