In the first years of YIREH, one of our factories hand-printed all of our fabrics. It’s a beautiful process: mixing each color individually and stamping each portion of the design at a time, layering until it comes to life. While we love this ritual and the softness it brought to our fabrics, hand printing uses quite a lot of water and left a lot more room for inconsistencies and discoloration. We found ourselves reprinting yards of fabric and we were left with slight variants of color between styles and lots of waste. We knew this wasn’t a sustainable practice and we had to make some changes.