Let's introduce ourselves; we are Ciska Jansen and George Oud, owners of Only Natural and we are supported by a team of motivated employees.
Our company started after a trip to India in search of beautiful paper to print poems on. It turned out that there was a market for the handmade paper products in the Netherlands and so our company started importing on a small scale in 1983. Since then, the product range has expanded enormously, from home accessories to small furniture and Christmas decorations.
India has been our second home for 40 years. Over the years, we have built up a sustainable relationship with our producers in India.
We ensure fair wages for the workers and good working conditions. Our starting point is that children in India go to school and that there is no child exploitation in the factories we work with. We do not use intermediaries but work directly with the producers of our products. We attach great value to personal contact with our suppliers.
Nowadays, there is a lot of attention for sustainable and environmentally aware production, but for us this has been an important issue from the beginning of our company. We make products from old paper (recycling), but also from waste materials from the fashion industry (upcycling). With the fabrics from the fashion industry, we make paper pulp from which we produce our special cotton mache Christmas hangings and decorations.
It is our passion to design contemporary products and packaging in the most natural way possible with local techniques and materials. Would you like to know more about our production in India and from which materials it is made? Check out our product sheet.
Only Natural develops collections for the retail market, but also delivers products on request.