Recently, Toronto-based designer Joanna Notkin was asked to create a product that would celebrate her native Canada through the myth of the cabin. In response, Notkin took the tradition of using mothballs to preserve fabrics in musty environs and turned it on its head, creating a line of textile products with delicate blemishes so that any disturbance by those fabric-eating pests into the future would serve to enhance the beauty of the product.

Urban Moth is just one in a line of "living textiles" developed by Notkin's textile company, LoooLo. The company is working to advance the Cradle to Cradle approach to making, producing sustainable textiles that are 100% compostable and bio-degradable. A LoooLo product that has reached the end of its useful life can be composted and will be reabsorbed by the earth within 1 year.

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