Materials & Origin
We work with a small number of materials and we know where each one comes from. What follows is not a claim. It is the route each fibre travels before it becomes a piece.
European Linen, 155 g/m²
100% linen, woven at 155 grams per square metre. Light enough for the height of summer, dense enough to hold a line.
The fibre is sourced in Belgium, from the flax belt that runs along the north of Europe, the same region that has supplied European weavers for centuries. It is dyed in Spain. It is made and finished in Portugal, in Vila de Cucujães. The buttons, the labels and the packaging are Portuguese.
Our linen bags and the linen hat use a heavier cloth of the same fibre, woven at 330 g/m², because a bag has to hold its shape when it is empty.
Linen is not a uniform fabric. Slubs, small irregularities in the weave and subtle differences of tone between one piece and another are the character of the fibre, not a defect. Unwashed linen feels structured at first; it relaxes with wear and with each wash.
Pieces in this fabric: shirt, blouse, shirt dress, waistcoat, trousers, hat, bags.
Colours: white, beige, pastel pink, pastel blue, sage green.
Organic Cotton, 190 g/m²
Organic cotton jersey at 190 grams, finished with a brushed peach-skin surface (carbon brushed) which gives a soft, dry hand feel that is closer to suede than to cotton. The carbon-fibre treatment improves shape retention without stiffening the fabric or taking away its drape.
It is a weight chosen on purpose. Below 180 g/m² a jersey goes translucent and loses its shape at the shoulder within a season. At 190 it holds.
The yarn is spun in Turkey. Weaving, dyeing, making, labels and packaging are all Portuguese. Our caps use a heavier cotton, 260 g/m², lined in the same fibre and embroidered in Portugal.
Pieces in this fabric: t-shirt, caps.
Leather: two hides, honestly distinguished
We use two different leathers, and we would rather name both than let one flatter the other.
Vegetable-tanned French hide, used for the travel trolley, the business trolley and the wash bag. Pasture-raised bovine hide of French origin, tanned with vegetable extracts rather than chromium salts. It is a slower process, measured in weeks rather than hours, and it leaves the hide able to age instead of merely wearing out. This leather darkens with light and with handling; a piece two years old should not look like one bought yesterday.
Full-grain hide dressed in Italy, used for the handles, trims and edging of the linen bags, the tote and the linen hat. Bovine, free-range, of North American origin, dressed in Italy. Full grain means the outer surface is left intact rather than sanded, which is why the marks of the animal remain visible.
Both are cut and made in Portugal, by leather workers who do this and nothing else. Hardware is solid, handles are reinforced, and the monogram is blind-embossed rather than printed.
Aviation cloths
Three shirtings, dyed and made in Portugal, chosen for different duty conditions. Classic Line: 55% cotton, 45% polyester, 115 g/m², the lightest of the three. Micro Line: 97% cotton, 3% elastane, 120 g/m², the most natural of the three compositions. Essential Line: 58% organic cotton, 39% recycled polyester, 3% elastane, 128 g/m², the densest, and the least given to showing through.
Why so few materials
A wider range would be easier to sell and harder to stand behind. We would rather answer for a handful of materials completely than for a dozen approximately. Every piece we make declares its composition, its weight in grams per square metre, and the country of each step: fibre, dyeing, making, buttons, labels, packaging. That information sits on every product page, not in a report nobody reads.
Care
Linen: machine wash on a delicate cycle below 30°C. Do not bleach, do not tumble dry. Iron cool, or dry clean.
Organic cotton: machine wash below 30°C, inside out, with like colours. Do not tumble dry; the peach-skin finish keeps its hand feel longer without it.
Leather: wipe with a soft dry cloth and nourish regularly with a suitable cream. Keep it from prolonged damp and direct sun. Rest it in its dust bag.
Full instructions are on every product page, under Care Instructions.
What comes next
We are preparing a digital product passport: a page for each piece, reachable by a code on its label, carrying its full traceability. It is being built ahead of the European requirement rather than in response to it.
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