The materials.

Wool · fine and smooth · year-round · machine washable at 30°

Merino fibres are fine enough to flex against the skin instead of prickling it, which is why a good merino can be worn directly on the body. It regulates temperature in both directions — warm in the cold, cool in the warm — and recovers its shape between wears. Our whole-garment knits in merino have no seams to distort when washed.

Wool · first shearing · lofty and warm · autumn–winter

Wool from a sheep's first shearing — softer and loftier than later clips. It holds more air, so it insulates more for its weight, and it takes colour with unusual depth. Expect light surface pilling in the first weeks; comb it away and it settles for years.

Flax · European grown · cool and dry · softens with every wash

Flax is one of the oldest cultivated fibres in Europe and needs little water and few inputs to grow. The cloth is stronger wet than dry — which is why linen survives generations of laundering — and it conducts heat away from the body faster than cotton. It creases in wear. That is the point of it.

Bast fibre · very low-input crop · durable · breathes like linen

Hemp grows fast without irrigation or pesticides and yields one of the most durable natural fibres there is. It behaves like a sturdier linen: dry to the touch, highly breathable, and it softens — without weakening — the more it is washed and worn.

Regenerated cellulose · closed-loop process · fluid drape

A modern fibre made from wood pulp in a closed-loop process that recovers almost all of its solvent. It drapes like silk, absorbs moisture better than cotton, and resists wrinkling — we use it where fluidity and a clean surface matter.

Regenerated cellulose · beechwood · soft and stable

Modal is spun from beechwood cellulose and stays soft and dimensionally stable through repeated washing — it resists the hardening that cotton jersey suffers over time. We use it blended, where next-to-skin softness has to survive the machine.

Seed fibre · long-staple only · easy to live with

We use long-staple cottons — longer fibres spin into smoother, stronger yarns that pill less and keep their surface. Cotton is the least demanding fibre to care for, which makes it the honest choice for pieces that get worn hard and washed often.

Knitwear is knitted whole in Portugal. Cloths are woven in Italy, England and Portugal — for tailoring, by the mills we name on every product page. Fibres are sourced in Europe.