Know what your clothes are made of before you buy them.
Every item has one colour bar showing what it's made of: green for certified natural fibres, blue for responsibly made plant-based fibres like TENCEL™, orange for natural fibres with no certificate, and red for plastics and standard chemically made fibres. The rules are published and no brand can pay for a better colour.
Green
Plant or animal fibre with a certificate, such as GOTS or OCS cotton, Masters of LINEN™, RWS or recycled-content wool.
Blue
Made from wood or plants in a factory, but responsibly and traceably: TENCEL™ lyocell and modal, REFIBRA™, LENZING™ ECOVERO™, Bemberg™ cupro and BAM's bamboo.
Orange
Plant or animal fibre, such as cotton, linen, wool or silk, but with no certificate.
Red
Plastics such as polyester, nylon, acrylic and elastane, plus standard viscose, rayon and bamboo, unbranded cupro, and any lyocell or modal that isn't TENCEL™.
All items
How the colours work
Each fibre in an item gets one of three colours by fixed rules, using evidence the brand publishes. The bar shows how much of the item is each colour. The same rules apply to every brand.
Where the evidence comes from
- Fibre content from the brand's product page or care label.
- Certification licence numbers checked against the GOTS public database, the Textile Exchange certified entities database, or Fairtrade licensee listings.
- Supplier lists from the brand's own disclosures or Open Supply Hub. Most brands only list the sewing factory; the cotton question sits further back, at the fabric mill, spinner and gin.
- Traceability programmes the brand names, such as isotope testing of the fibre.
What orange means
It means we found no certificate. It is not a finding that the fibre comes from forced labour. A brand can turn orange into green by publishing the certificate.
Keeping it current
Every item shows the date its evidence was last checked. Brand-level evidence is re-checked at least every six months, and immediately when a brand sends us new information.
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Why this exists
Shopping sites let you filter by size, colour and price. None let you filter out polyester or uncertified fibres. This one does.
Independence
Colours are never for sale. Brands cannot pay for placement or a better colour. If a brand asks us to review new evidence, the colour still depends only on that evidence.
How we make money
Some links to retailers are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Commission never affects which items are listed or what colour they get.
Corrections
If a colour is wrong, or a brand has evidence we missed, send the product link and the evidence to corrections@madefrom.shop. We review every submission and update the item with the date of the change.
Images
Items are shown as simple illustrations in the item's colour, not product photos. Real photos will replace them once retailers license their images to us through affiliate programmes.