Textile Exchange

Textile Exchange is a global non-profit certifying sustainable raw materials in the fashion industry. Their certifications are widely used & trusted and we work with their certifications for our organic & recycled cotton as well as, on occasion, for the recycled polyester we use.

To be able to verify if raw material in a clothing item lives up to a certain sustainable standard, a brand needs to provide the certificate that states this. There are two types of certificates: transaction certificates and scope certificates. Scope certificates are given out for each facility in a supply chain that works with the material and they state that this facility has been checked to uphold the certification's standards. A transaction certificate specifically applies to the articles in shipments between point A and point B. It verifies the transaction between a scope certified facility to another facility in the supply chain or to a brand.

For our materials, we work with two certifications: the Organic Content Standard (OCS) and the Global Recycled Standard (GRS). The OCS verifies the percentage of organically grown material and tracks it from source to final product. There are the “OCS blended” and the OCS100 certifications. We source materials that hold either certification for different products in our collection. Products certified to the OCS 100 contain at least 95% certified organically grown content and products certified to the OCS Blended contain between 5-94% certified organically grown content. 

In our case, when products are certified according to the OCS Blended, the products will often contain some percentage of recycled cotton or polyester in them, leading us to the second certification that we work with: the Global Recycled Standard. Products certified to the GRS contain a minimum of 50% recycled material that has been verified at each stage of the supply chain, from the recycler to the final product.