Snow white is the whitest of whites. Laying cloth down onto newly fallen snow is the surest way to whiten and naturally bleach it without chemicals.

 

Snow bleaching features in the Japanese textile tradition, when making a hemp fabric called Ojiya Chijmi or ramie: the vegetal fibres are snow bleached, a technique that relies on combination of sun on snow and ozone.

 

 

 

 

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