So do we. But bed mites love your polyester pillow cover. One third of the weight of a five-year-old pillow can be dead mites and their poop. Good thing that Aizome Bedding is naturally antibacterial.

Yes. We work along international guidelines to qualify our products to be safe for toddlers and infants.

Focus has been put on the release of hazardous chemicals into the environment and there is today a well-known environmental problem caused by the textile industry. However, substances remaining in finished textile products, in daily close contact with the body, have been neglected as a potential risk to human health. The hazards posed by such substances are primarily skin sensitization and irritation, but also reproduction toxicity, and proved or suspected carcinogenicity.

“Greenpeace: Hazardous chemicals in clothing”“Ethical Fashion Forum: 10 Toxic Chemicals To Avoid In Your Products” “Swedish Chemical Agency: Chemicals in textiles – Risks to human health and the environment”“Maxine Bédat: The high cost of cheap fashion”

Super amazingly soft.

We ship from Yantai China, where the bed sets are being tailored in a facility we manage.

No, we also produce in China under controlled conditions. Rest assured that every stage of our production meets the highest quality standards. The quality management, review process, and safety inspections are all managed or done in Japan.

No. This means that the product was cleaned and checked for 100 known toxic chemicals. Aizome Bedding, however, has never even been in touch with such toxins and nothing had to be washed out. This saves tons of water and lets you sleep even better.

Potentially forever. Some of the oldest surviving fabrics are dyed with natural indigo. We have refrained from using any wear-and-tear parts like zippers, buttons or rubber bands. These might be the last sheets you’ll ever need.

To maintain the soft and comfortable natural feeling, we recommend following these care instructions: do not bleach, do not tumble dry, lay flat to dry, iron with low heat, and wash at up to 60°C.

No, never! You are our number one priority. We have experience in manufacturing and quality management. We are ambitious beyond this single project and together with your support we want to build a company that is good to your health and the environment. You will get your Aizome Bedding and we will be there for you.

Yes. The color will not be affected.

When the bed sheets are wet, for example when you take them out of the washing machine, you notice a flowery scent. This is the smell of natural indigo.

Aizome is the Japanese word for dyeing textile with natural indigo. This is done by fermenting the leaves of the indigo plant. The number of dips in the dye vat determines how dark the blue will be.

The basic process is traditional: We use only cotton, indigo and water. We enhance this with a novel sonic wave technology. Sonic energy is sound waves with frequencies above 20,000 oscillations per second. In liquid, these high-frequency waves cause the formation of microscopic bubbles. Collapsing bubbles generate tiny but powerful shock waves which results in high-velocity microjets directed towards the solid surface of the yarn. These microjets can give rise to intra-yarn flow, increase in the rate of the mass transfer between the intra-yarn and inter-yarn pores. The result is highly colorfast textiles made without any chemicals.

Natural indigo is what humans used until the invention of chemical indigo (also known as synthetic indigo) by Adolf von Baeyer in the 1880s. Chemical indigo is by now used almost exclusively. The name ‘indigo’ is now used for the color, not the plant. As far as we know, no other company produces natural indigo products on a large scale.

If your jeans were made before the 1880s, then yes. If not, chances are high that your jeans are dyed with synthetic indigo, also called aniline, which in its pure form is highly toxic. Today natural dyes have almost disappeared from the market.