Sustainable Inks & Dyes
Two Techniques. One Chemistry.
House of Parvi uses GOTS-certified inks — placed as a pattern on some pieces, carried through the whole cloth on others. The technique is chosen by the design, not by preference. The chemistry is the same.
Same Colour. Different Audit.
Both cloths are ochre. Only one is audited.
Two Techniques. One Chemistry.
Every piece is either printed or dyed. Some designs need a placed pattern — colour applied where the design requires it. Others need a solid hue — the whole cloth carrying a single considered colour. The same GOTS-certified ink is used for both. What changes is how it meets the fabric.
Certified Ink. Fabrics Ahead of the Standard.
GOTS certification for these inks covers the ink chemistry, its supplier, and the process by which it is applied. Every ink we use has passed this standard — whether it is placed as a pattern or applied as a solid dye. What GOTS does not yet cover: the lotus, rose petal, and aloe silk fabrics themselves — novel biofabrics still awaiting a standard of their own.
The Chemistry Is Constant. The Technique Is Not.
Printing places ink only where the pattern requires it — near-zero water at the placement stage. Dyeing carries a solid hue through the cloth. Different techniques; the same certified ink. Both are done with the strictest chemistry available today.
“We use the strictest ink certification that exists, on fabrics that do not yet have one of their own.”
- GOTS-certified inks — printing and dyeing
- No prohibited chemistries under GOTS
- Ink supplier audited on labour and wages
- Applied in India by TexIndia