Our decision to use vintage and antique textiles is quite layered.
Sustainability has always been very important to us. Creating in a thoughtful and responsible way, from building our brick and mortars to making the collection, is our mission. We live in a world with an abundance of existing materials and we choose to take advantage of this by sourcing textiles that are already in circulation, made by someone, somewhere, sometime— just waiting for us to discover/find them.
Aesthetics and design, unmatched quality and a love and appreciation for the hand made also hugely inspire us to source the way we do.
Our fabrics are stored in an old wooden hutch pulled from a local farmhouse. Open the doors and you see stacks of early homespun wool blankets, French linen bedsheets and striped mattress ticking, crocheted Quaker lace tablecloths, crisp English cotton shirting from a salesman sample collection, thick woven Mid century curtain panels with mysterious motifs and colorful Eastern European brocades that are all waiting their turn. Across the studio are several old jelly jars filled with colorful vintage buttons, antique trims hang from an inverted found gentlemans wooden valet and an old industrial canvas and metal laundry cart lives below the cutting table, filled with off cuts and scraps from past collections.
The heart and soul of our entire process, from inspiration to design to the making, lives in these materials.