New! Customize Your Own Ladies Breast Cancer Awareness T-Shirt
Want a unique TS Designs t-shirt but don’t want to order in bulk? We’re now offering a program that will allow you to individually customize a stock design and order a single shirt on our website! Our first design is just for the ladies: a white or pink AnvilOrganic women’s shirt with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s famous quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history” on the front, and “[Wearer's name] is NOT a well-behaved woman” on the back....
Read MoreHarvest 2010 Tour a Success!
Check out some great photos of Harvest 2010 - our celebration of Cotton of the Carolina's cotton farmer.
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It's that time again! Cotton-pickin' season is right around the corner, which means we're inviting all our friends out to our Harvest 2010 tour! Join us in New London, NC to celebrate Ronnie Burleson, our own Cotton of the Carolinas farmer. Details below!
Harvest 2010 Agenda
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
10am - meet at Rolling Hills Cotton Gin:
29107 Kendalls Church Road, New London, NC
10-10:30 - introduction of the CotC team
10:30-11:30 - tour of cotton gin
11:30 - out to the farm
12-1 - lunch at the farm
1-2 - visit the field / ride the tractor
2-3 - Q&A, wrap-up and head home
Details
Price - $10/person - includes local lunch
Group Transportation / RSVP - Contact Eric Henry
*RSVP by 10/23*
Read MoreTSD Now Offers Less Expensive Sustainable Options!
TSD is partnering with Anvil Knitwear to offer less expensive t-shirt options that exhibit a wider range of sustainable qualities and prices
To learn more about both our Anvil offerings and our TSD brands, check out our shirt styles page.
We want to support our customers with the right product no matter where they are on the continuum of sustainability. Anvil’s lines of conventional cotton and certified organic cotton t-shirts will help to supplement our own TSD brands for customers who want to start pushing their apparel in a more sustainable direction.
And though most of Anvil’s t-shirts are manufactured in Honduras, we partnered with Anvil specifically because of their comprehensive Corporate Social Responsibility Report.
Cold wash, line-dry
Here at TS Designs we are all about sustainability. We focus on sustainability in our product, our business practices, and our final impact on the environment. However, there is only so much we can do, the rest of the environmental choices are up to the consumer. In a 2007 report commissioned by the Danish EPA, an environmental assessment was conducted on six textile products—one of those was the cotton t-shirt. The report concluded that it is the consumer of the product that ultimately has the greatest impact on the environment—first by choosing an organic product, and then by washing as little as possible, drip-drying, and not ironing. So if you have ever wondered what you can do for the environment, you can make informed decisions on how you launder your t-shirts. Here at TS Designs, we recommend you wash your clothes with cold water using environmentally friendly detergents and line-dry. According to the study, the consumer can reduce primary energy consumption by 70 percent by not tumble-drying. It is also important to simply wash less. The study concluded that by halving the amount of times you wash your t-shirt increases the life of the t-shirt by 50%. If you want to reduce your impact, wear your t-shirt more than once before washing it and limit your use of your clothes dryer. Eric Henry, president of TS Designs said, “We are making a sustainable product, but the consumer in the long run has the greatest influence on the impact to the environment on how they care and dispose of it.” To read the full report, click here.
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Cotton of the Carolinas is a collaboration of farmers and manufacturers across the state dedicated to growing, making, and selling its t-shirts in the Southeast.