Around since Samson & Delilah, Batik uses cotton, wax, dyes and hot water. Its a tradition local to Ghana in West Africa, where Batik stamps are carved by hand into mattress foam.

Since designing & making our Golden Coast collection solely produced in Ghana, we have collected the story on how its done. This powerful textiles tradition ensures that every yard we print has a conscience. Its powerful assets provide us with small carbon footprints, the opportunity to dye fabrics in ways that conserve water, respect our environment while leaving behind gorgeous products.

See for yourselves just click on the pictures….start on the top left.

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Choolips marks 9th of May ‘Fairtrade World Day’ with a celebration:

£10 off every Bespoke dress available from our ‘Choolips online Pop-Up’ for one week! Visit us…

Because we love our dresses to be fair & our planet to be a breath of fresh air we have established ingredients for A LOVE STORY.

Choolips loves Ghanaian cotton… Cotton – farmed and spun by locals in Ghana – brings all its soft & genuine charms to our designs. There is nothing more exciting than seeing yards of white Cotton transforming into a beautiful fabrics; absorbing bright coloured dyes and reflecting our prints set by the local Batik traditions. The simplicity of this fabric and the elegant processes that transform it make the staple for all of the textiles & dresses we produce for our Golden Coast collection. Surely this is Fairtrade Cotton at its best – brightly coloured cute dresses that champion high quality. But is it enough?

BESPOKE COTTON = NO WASTE … By finding a love match for each dress before it is produced we save a lot of broken hearts. This is how we do it.

Bespoke Cotton: You choose your shape, your colours, your print and we match your Bespoke Cotton with skilled hands to print, stitch and steam the dress of your choice. A Bespoke always means that you will love it as much as we loved making it for you.

Waste? No Waste. Because its Bespoke there will be no surplus Choolips dresses wandering the planet without their lovematch.

The Icing on the Cake… The difference you are making with your love match is more than fair.

Buying a Bespoke Choolips dress is throwing more than a lifeline to our local Ghanaian producers. It is providing our producers with confidence that there is an international audience for their products & trade. This means your dress provides backbone to each hand & life involved in producing it while it makes its way to your wardrobe.

Dreaming of summers with delicious Choolips dresses… We produce all Bespoke orders in one hit so we can bring your love match over in one shipment to save fuel. For that reason our pop-up is only open for another 21 days…

So get your orders in to receive your dress at the start of July in time for georgeous summer days.

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