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Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:51 pm
by internationalist
Any good ideas?

Re: Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:58 pm
by Concordia
Fresco and its relatives (Finmeresco, Brisa), or mohair blends.

Re: Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:51 am
by Simon A
Hemp trousers seem to resist creasing better than cotton or linen pants. Seersucker cotton shirts also travel well without much pressing, but not everybody likes the appearance. Brisa is very resistant to creasing.

Re: Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:00 pm
by Concordia
What fabric houses offer hemp?

Re: Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:53 pm
by Simon A
I have not seen hemp fabric in the books of the regular merchants

Ecolution http://ecolution.com/is a Romanian company selling Romanian hemp fabric, they have a broad range.

Much of the hemp on the market is Chinese, the Romanian product is better. The following merchants sell a mixture of Chinese and Romanian product

http://www.hemptraders.com/index.php?cP ... 98fa3d40b2
http://www.envirotextile.com/chinese-he ... index.html
http://www.hempfabricshop.com/index.php ... 2d04968e21
http://www.rawganique.com/HAfabric.htm

Re: Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 3:04 am
by erasmus
Concordia wrote:What fabric houses offer hemp?
Carnet does.

Re: Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 6:06 pm
by ajoman
Isaia does carry one or two hemp fabrics in their summer seasonal MTM offerings. I am not sure where they sourced the hemp however

Re: Good iron-free fabrics for light summer carry-on travel

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:45 pm
by internationalist
What is the web site for Carnet?

Is this Isaia a simple RTW brand with some MTM offerings?

Thanks for the hemp sources, Simon A!