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Where the cloth comes from, who cuts it, and why a jacket takes eleven hours instead of two.
The workshop
Everything we sell is made within twenty kilometres of the loom that wove it.
This is what that actually involves.
See the collectionThe mill has been running the same looms since 1954. They are slower than anything built since, and they produce a cloth with a hand nothing faster can match.
We buy the whole run or none of it, which is why a colour sometimes disappears for a season and comes back the next.
The pieces in this story, with what they cost today and whether they can be bought.
“You cannot hurry a shoulder. It either sits or it does not.”