Green Burial Project | Resource: Find burial shrouds

Find burial shrouds

For something unique, try Etsy or a local quiltmaker.

A length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial. A green shroud will be made of natural materials such as cotton, linen, hemp, wool, silk, alpaca, cashmere, mohair, raimie. The variety of these shrouds—from artwork to plain & simple—are testaments to creativity and tradition. For something unique, try Etsy or a local quiltmaker.

‍Kinkaraco (San Francisco, CA)
Natural Burial Company (Eugene, OR)
Northwood Casket (Beaver Dam, WI)
Natural Grace Funerals (Los Angeles, CA)
‍CINDEA (Victoria, BC, Canada) – patterns!
Passages International (Albuquerque, NM)
Last Dance Shrouds (Schutesbury, MA)

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"Looking mortality straight in the eye is no easy feat. To avoid the exercise, we choose to stay blindfolded, in the dark as to the realities of death and dying. But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror."

— Caitlyn Doughty
from "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," p. Ix

Carolina Memorial Sanctuary

Mills River, NC

White Eagle Memorial Preserve

Goldendale, WA

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Find burial shrouds

For something unique, try Etsy or a local quiltmaker.

"Looking mortality straight in the eye is no easy feat. To avoid the exercise, we choose to stay blindfolded, in the dark as to the realities of death and dying. But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror."