Plate 01
Long-staple Cotton
GOTSGujarat & Andhra Pradesh
Rain-fed, non-GMO. Hand-picked at second flowering for staple length above 32mm.
A textile house — for makers who measure twice
Cloth with a
conscience,
cut for trade.
Root and Fibre is a B2B textile and clothing house supplying labels, ateliers and contract manufacturers with naturally-sourced fabric and finished garments — at wholesale tonnage, without compromise on provenance.
Today at the mill
Lot 0428 — undyed cotton sateen, 220gsm, 142cm.
Available in 1,800m. Sample on request.
Long-staple cottonWet-spun linenHighland woolTussar silkRecycled cellulosicHemp · banana bastNaturally dyedMill-directCut, make & trimLong-staple cottonWet-spun linenHighland woolTussar silkRecycled cellulosicHemp · banana bastNaturally dyedMill-directCut, make & trim
Our ethos
Sustainability is not a label. It is a ledger.
Every bale we ship is traced back to a named field, flock, or forest. We source only what the soil can renew — no synthetic petrochemical fibres, no hidden middlemen, no greige cloth from grey supply.
Our mills run on closed-loop water cycles, low-impact dyestuffs, and pay above-region living wages. We publish a quarterly impact letter to every account — uncomfortable numbers included.
The cloth is the easy part. The harder, slower work is keeping the whole chain — soil to seam — honest. That is the work we have committed to.
We will turn down a contract that asks us to compromise on it. We have. We will again.
The shelf
A library of honest materials.
Six base programmes, twelve weights, and an ever-rotating set of seasonal hand-loom drops. Custom blends and bespoke colourways are quoted on request.
Plate 02
Wet-spun Linen
European FlaxNormandy & West Flanders
Single-origin flax, dew-retted in the field. Wet-spun for a crisp, lustrous yarn.
Plate 03
Highland Wool
RWSCumbria & Connemara
Grease-spun lambswool from regenerative grazing flocks. Lanolin retained.
Plate 04
Banana & Hemp Blends
Closed-loopKarnataka & Anhui
Stalk-derived bast fibres carded with organic hemp for canvas-weight fabrics.
Plate 05
Tussar & Eri Silk
Peace silkJharkhand & Assam
Forest-reared, ahimsa-harvested. Hand-reeled by 14 women-led cooperatives.
Plate 06
Recycled Cellulosic
Closed-loopLenzing, AT
TENCEL™ Lyocell with REFIBRA™ technology — 30% post-consumer cotton waste.
What we offer
From field to finished piece.
Four programmes, scoped together. Pick one — or hand us the whole brief and we will run it end to end.
- 01
Fibre & Yarn Sourcing
Direct relationships with 38 mills and 11 cooperatives, with full chain-of-custody documentation on every bale.
- 02
Mill-direct Wholesale Cloth
Greige, piece-dyed and yarn-dyed fabric in widths 110–300cm. Minimums from 60 metres for sampling, 600+ for production.
- 03
Cut, Make & Trim
Small- and mid-batch garment manufacturing across woven, knitted and jersey programmes — patterns, grading, finishing in-house.
- 04
Private Label Programmes
White-label basics, uniform contracts, and seasonal capsules built to your tech-pack — with traceability tags ready for retail.
The ledger, this season
Numbers we are willing to publish.
- Traceable to bale
- 100%
- Fields under regenerative practice
- 4,712 ha
- Closed-loop water cycle on dyehouse
- 92%
- Living-wage certified mills
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Voices from the trade floor
What partners say after the second order.
“They quoted us on a 4,800-piece linen run with a sourcing dossier we could literally hand to our auditors. The cloth arrived two days early and the hand-feel is somewhere between heirloom and brand new.”
Imogen Ndiaye-Hart
Head of Production, Halberd Studios · Copenhagen
“We needed a hemp-cotton canvas at 14oz that did not look like a sack. R&F sent six swatches in eleven days, and the third one became our entire workwear line. The mill conversation alone was worth the switch.”
Teodoro Bachiu
Founder, North Coil Workshop · Porto
“For our hospitality contract we needed 11,200 metres of OEKO-TEX cotton sateen, dyed to a very specific clay pantone, on a 9-week window. Root and Fibre was the only supplier who said yes and meant it.”
Anaïs Wexler-Pham
Procurement Lead, Maison Verre · Lyon
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