Grassroots Textiles Core Values
Grassroots Textiles was built on four core values: speed, tenacity, passion, and taste.
When you work with Grassroots Textiles, you get our time, attention, and total transparency. We demonstrate trust by treating everyone fairly and with respect, going above and beyond what’s expected or requested to ensure the success of the task at hand.
Throughout her textiles career, Lisa has maintained a stellar reputation because she is committed to consistent, honest, and thorough performance. With these building blocks in place, she is committed to the shared end goal: to ensure the successful launch of your line of sustainable fabric products!
Meet Grassroots Textiles founder Lisa Bovino
As founder of Grassroots Textiles, Lisa guides manufacturers, brands, fashion houses, entrepreneurs, and other textiles professionals navigate the ever-evolving world of sustainable fabric, including hemp fabric. She has spent more than 30 years spearheading merchandising, styling, research, development, sourcing, cost negotiation, and fabric manufacturing for some of the world’s most recognizable brands. Liz Claiborne, Tommy Hilfiger, Ann Taylor, and more have trusted her with sourcing and manufacturing their clothing lines. Her career has taken her around the globe, building valuable relationships with mills uniquely qualified to meet the challenges of both the hemp fabric world and the demand for eco-friendly textiles.
Hemp has the power to change our world! This eco-friendly, sustainable, breathable, and durable textile has the potential to transform many of the items we encounter every day. Our clothing, bedding, towels, linens, tablecloths, curtains – if it’s made with fabric, hemp can improve and enhance its quality, performance, and long-lasting durability.
“In fact, it is at the grassroots level where many of the most innovative initiatives are occurring.”
– Anonymous
Fabric sourcing and textile consultant areas of expertise
Grassroots Textiles touches every aspect of the fabric manufacturing supply chain, informed by more than three decades in the business. Those areas of expertise include:
Sourcing
Reliable, ethical, and trustworthy hemp fabric sources are the backbone of any product line made from hemp textiles. Lisa has developed deep relationships with mills and manufacturers in multiple continents over decades in the textiles industry, working only with sources that have proven their ability to keep up with demand. Each hemp source I work with meets my high standards for quality, price, and production timelines, standards I’ve formulated over 30 years of experience with global, multi-billion-dollar clothing retailers.
Risk mitigation
A kink in the supply chain can cripple operations, especially during peak busy season. Each Grassroots Textiles client receives a personalized risk mitigation plan so that your hemp fabric needs can be met at any time of year without interfering with production or sales.
Cost control
Understanding, tracking, and mapping dips and surges in pricing is crucial for controlling costs. Weather, economics, labor, and infrastructure all play a role how prices rise and fall. This crucial in-flux factor cannot be put on the back burner. Raw material cost negotiation is especially key for those looking to incorporate hemp textiles into their product lines, and we at Grassroots Textiles factor for these fluctuations while building your product line.
Trend monitoring
What does the future of hemp fabric look like in an industry where trends dictate fabric choice multiple times a year? Our deep understanding of how trends come in and out of fashion will help your business stay relevant and profitable, no matter which way the trends go.
Creative collaboration
Our founder Lisa Bovino’s leadership experience includes working side-by-side with creative directors and designers to identify trending patterns and colors. Our team works closely with these professionals to analyze and execute concepts in a way that works for mass production.
Relationship building
Lisa has built robust relationships over more than 30 years of work in the textile industry. She leverages these relationships for each Grassroots Textiles client, to produce the best products at the best prices around.
Global reach
Decades of work has taken our leadership around the world, developing strong ties to some of the world’s largest textile manufacturing regions, including:
- France – Paris
- India – Ahmedabad, Delhi
- Italy – Prato, Como
- Taipei
- China – Shanghai
- Japan – Osaka
- Turkey – Istanbul
Contact Textile Consultant Lisa Bovino
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