In the never ending quest to pack smarter and travel lighter, without forfeiting comfort, we've loomed a collection of Travel Towels using GOTS Organic cotton yarn. Packing down smaller, drying faster and 100% free from microfibre plastics, Layday towels are nice fit for your pack & our planet.
While traveling or out and about, our Waffle Organic Cotton Towels are as functional as much as they are comfortable. The shallow waffle craters increase absorbency and drying times…while keeping the fabric nice and flat for packability.
Flatwoven Organic Cotton - Kind of like that favourite pair of Jeans that got more and more comfortable as they aged, this gutsier option of Travel Towel will become your absorbent travel buddy for years to come. It has a GSM rating of around 250gsm..and to put that into perspective..a T-shirt is around 180gsm and and your bath towel around 580 gsm. So right on the button of durability and packability.
The workmanship on this piece consists of 2 yarn dyed horizontal yarns & and 1 naturally coloured vertical yarn. The coloured stripes are not screen printed they're simply yarn dyed. After a few use-rinse-dry cycles, the vertical white yarn gives the towel a frosted look thanks the to the expansion & activated Organic Cotton.
Overall, our Jacquard range is a tighter feeling weave. They’re woven on traditional Jacquard looms so the pattern is woven into the fabric using a cardboard punch card. Because it’s woven tighter, after a few uses it takes on a ruffled feel which feels buttery soft.
Fabric softeners simply smother fibres to make them feel softer than they really are. Along its production journey, a Cotton fibre starts from a seed, then goes to farm, to ground, to grow, to harvest, to ginning, to spinning, to weaving. Even Certified Organic Cotton goes through some (non-toxic) coating stages before they’re spun into towels. When our towels are fresh off the loom, they need something to soften them up. Rather than fake that first feel with fabric softeners, we’ve adopted a simple water & sand rinse and soak. This gives you a nice head start into breaking in a Layday. Optimum absorbency comes around the 5th dry - soak - use cycle.
Now, we’re not about to shout Sustainability ethics at you from a moral high ground here. There’s enough of that out there already. But since we’re in the game of sourcing fabrics, interrogating supply chain’s and keeping our company as small and nimble as possible, we do want to let you know that GOTS Organic Cotton is better for everyone involved...from seed to shelf. There’s a nice video explaining what Organic Cotton is and why it’s arguably better than conventional Cotton. Check it out over here.