If I can't see the fabric right in front of me so that I can feel it and see if it looks right in the light, I'd want to know absolutely everything including country of origin. Now I know that every nation has its good manufacturers and its bad manufacturers, but certain general characteristics do tend to generally be the case. If the cloth is woven in Scotland I know that the workers were paid a decent wage, that the factory is kept up to certain minimum safety conditions, and that the material will be of at least a certain quality otherwise they'd be ashamed to sell it. The same can't be said of other countries. It might have been woven by children or at what we would consider slave wages. That's especially true if the item is high cost. I don't want someone to be making monstrous profits while exploiting the unfortunate. Now that is not to say that all asiatic manufacturer's are unethical, but I do believe that a buyer has the right to know the origin of the cloth before purchase so that they can make up their own mind about it.

I guess I'm a bit of what is now called the "ethical" shopper in that I'm willing to pay more knowing that the source is following a basic moral standard in their business practices. But then I'm also a business owner and I follow those same practices in my shop too.