For several days, Sophie Brooks has not stopped making home deliveries, in Bayonne, Anglet or Biarritz, the masks she offers. They come from the Angkor region of Cambodia, where she usually obtains cotton, silk or lotus fiber fabrics, manufactured without any use of chemicals, to make her line of women’s clothing sold online under the brand. Lotus paradise which she created from Anglet.
Cambodian seamstresses
The Samatoa lotus textile company, founded in Cambodia by Awen Delaval, a Breton who settled there, has enabled Cambodian women to revive a skill that had been undermined during the Khmer Rouge period. They weave naturally to make fabrics in silk, lotus fiber or cotton. So many natural materials with remarkable properties. Twenty times thinner than a hair, the lotus fiber, once woven (200,000 fibers per cm2), constitutes an almost insurmountable barrier for particles down to 0.3 microns. You can order by going through the Lotus Paradis Facebook page.
Referenced by Afnor
The Cambodian seamstresses to whom Awen Delaval made it possible to develop this activity, had no trouble getting into the manufacturing of masks. These have been designed in strict compliance with Afnor standards. This has enabled Samatoa and Lotus paradis to both be listed on the website that the French standardization company has specially opened for protective masks. This certification enabled Samatoa to easily cross the customs control barriers and Sophie Brooks to receive them for Lotus paradis. Since then, she has been roaming the streets of BAB to ensure her deliveries. This Saturday, she carried the last orders of the first stock she had received and should receive next week a new batch of several hundred masks.
Eco-responsible approach
Two models are available, priced at 7 euros and 8 euros. A price which corresponds to the value of the material and the quality of the work of the Angkor seamstresses. “It is the only way they have today, while tourism is at a standstill, to obtain an income, underlines Sophie Brooks. The same eco-responsible approach is applied to this manufacturing as to that of fabrics and clothes in normal times. “
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