LatestNotes from the dye house
Why we dye the garment, not the cloth
Garment dyeing costs more and takes longer. It is also the only way we can hold a Pantone reference across a reorder nine months later.
12 August 2026 · 6 min read
Notes from the factory
How the work is actually done
Short pieces from the studio and the mills. Dye recipes, cloth weights and the reasons a reorder drifts — written for the person who has to sign off the run.
More from the studio
Pieces still being written show without a link rather than with a dead one.
The cloth
What 270 gsm actually feels like
Weight is the number every merch supplier quotes and the one nobody can convey on a screen. A short guide to reading gsm before the sample lands.
24 July 2026 · 5 min read
Production
Why the second run never matches
Colour drift, block drift and yarn lot drift are three different problems. Only one of them is the dye house.
9 June 2026 · 7 min read
Finishing
Screen print or embroidery
A one-colour mark on 500 pieces and a four-colour mark on 25 are different jobs. How the setup cost decides which finish is right.
18 April 2026 · 4 min read
The mills
A day on the making floor in Guimarães
Forty machinists, one block per blank, and the reason we cut our own patterns rather than buy someone else’s.
2 March 2026 · 8 min read
Reading is no substitute for handling the cloth
Samples are free if you return them within 60 days. MOQ is 25 pcs, production 14–21 days.
