All of our teeshirts, including the annual Piedmont Farm Tour tee, are printed in Burlington at TSDesigns. TSDesigns has worked to revive the North Carolina textile industry, creating a local supply chain for the entire process of making a teeshirt. By not shipping cotton to China to be made into a tee, the transportation footprint can be reduced from 17,000 to 900 miles.
As always, the Farm Tour tees are made with organic cotton. Some were printed on the final tees made with cotton from the 2011 harvest in North Carolina, the first-ever certified organic harvest; Weaver Street Market purchased half of the 5000 tees made from that harvest. Because organic cotton is not currently grown in the state, the rest of the tees are made from cotton grown in Texas.
TSDesigns’ Dirt to Shirt process was featured on UNC TV’s Our State this week. Watch the segment below.