Home of Sustainable Fabrics
If you are looking to shop whilst saving time, money and our planet, fashion products from Australia's closest neighbour, Indonesia, may be the ones for you! Home to a world of sustainable fabrics, eco-friendly brands have become increasingly prominent since 2015. Indonesia has a variety of supply, and with Australia witnessing an increasing demand for ethical fashion, the Indonesian SDGs is the answer! The Indonesian SDGs Roadmap to Year 2030 campaign, has further seen more textile industries adapting to sustainable practices.
Indonesian Sustainable Fashion - Price, Product, Place, Design, Clothes
When it comes to shopping, price tag definitely drives our decision making process. Since many of us are used to buying shirts for $15 or a pair of jeans for $30, we tend to write off sustainable fashion as too expensive. However, investing in sustainable fashion allows individuals to reap the benefits of the hefty prices and here is why: The most paramount benefit is the much better quality of clothing.
Whilst something trendy costs a couple of dollars to produce and often falls apart after a few washes, the opposite occurs with sustainable clothing. Indonesian ethical brands focus on producing timeless, well thought out quality pieces of garment instead of churning out thousands of poor quality styles every week. Indonesian fashion brands promote artisan craft which allows you to be the owner of beautifully embroidered outfits. The art of block-printing, herbal dyeing, weaving and embroidery are ancient processes that are inherently sustainable, since they don’t use electricity or emit carbon.
However, as expected, these handmade processes are intensely laborious and time consuming, so to charge an inexpensive price is nothing but fair to these artisans. Additionally, workers in Indonesia manually take on tasks like cleaning and weeding to source natural and organic materials. Whilst a certified linen dress would cost approximately $200 and a jacket almost $300, the outstanding quality will not leave you wanting to keep buying others.
We must buy better so that we buy less. Saving up and investing in pieces that are fairly-made, will leave you having and wearing them for years.
Now if the price doesn’t scream “buy me!”, perhaps the designs will! The natural fibres of Indonesian fabrics also cannot be compared to others. Hand-made, distinctive, colourful, and made from love are only a few words to best describe Indonesian fabrics. Indonesia is very well known for their fabricated eri silk produced in East Java along with their natural dyes such as batik. These textiles are steeped in a variety of Indonesian cultures with hundreds of batik and handloom motif designs.
Additionally, Indonesian textiles use plenty of natural resources such as plants and flowers for eco-design inspired prints with batik. Whilst many people know batik to be produced in Java, the natural dye also is produced in Sumatra (where the fabrics are heavily influenced by Japanese styles). Moreover, when cotton and fabricated silk is handwoven, batik can also be incorporated. Indonesian fabrics are shipped globally with international standard quality, and Indonesia aims to always empower artisans and ecosystem resources when it comes to textiles.
Indonesian sustainable brand, Sukkhacitta is an adult unisex brand, known for their ethically handcrafted and naturally dyed clothing made from the villages! Did you know that 56% of your purchases goes directly to the villages to fund training and build their craft schools?! Additionally, their collection #maderight is quite popular. Pieces of textile are each naturally-dyed with plants grown by Indigenous women farmers from agricultural waste.
So what are we going to wear this summer? In regards to finding the best fabric for your skin, Indonesian cotton and silk would be the best option! Allowing the skin to breathe a lot easier than synthetic fibers like nylon and polyester, it is the best for those with sensitive skin. Now where is the best place to shop sustainably in Indonesia? From the multitude of options, here is what is recommended for your first time!
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*Sukkhacitta means 'Happiness' in Indonesian