Kapok Tree

All Boon & Up fabric is handwoven to a width of 110cm, and is 100% combed cotton, hand-grown by smallholder African farmers. Boon & Up fabric is tough, it passes 45,000 rubs on the Martindale test, however due to the way it is woven on traditional looms we highly recommend that our fabric is knit backed for any upholstery projects. This is a relatively inexpensive process, please get in touch with us for recommendations of companies that perform this task in your region.

Boon & Up fabric has also passed the flammability ‘cigarette test’ (BS5852:Part 1:1979:Source 0).

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Description

All our fabrics tell a story.

The Kapok tree bears a white fluffy seed that is harvested and used locally to stuff mattresses. The Dagaaba call it the cotton tree, although there’s no actual relationship between the tree and the cotton plants also grown and harvested in northern Ghana.