Our Materials

Our materials have been shaped by humans for millennia — and in return they have shaped us

We name ages of humanity after materials because they influence the direction of entire civilizations. Throughout history, the most precious among them were guarded as state secrets, hoarded by rulers and carried across distant lands.

We work with the earth's most precious materials and let them guide our hands. They only gain in character as they age, every touch deepening their resonance.

Timeless materials stay with you even as your taste shifts, even as your home changes. Materials outlast trends because they were never part of one.

Hardwood

Nations explored the world on ships made from hardwoods. Wine and whiskey owe their character to years spent inside oak barrels. Instruments carved centuries ago are still being played today. Wood has played the largest role of any material in human history.

Every civilization was built on wood before it was built on anything else. Nothing is closer to our roots. Its warmth is intimately familiar, its scent still reminds us of our heritage.

There are countless species all over the world, each with their own characteristics. Woods like American Walnut, European Maple, Asian Padauk and African Wenge have been fought over for centuries and traded across the oceans. When woods from different corners of the earth meet in a single object, something rare happens. Centuries of growth, shaped by distant soils and climates, converge under one hand.

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New Zealand Romney Wool

Cultivated from ancient European breeds over seven hundred years, Romney wool became so coveted that England first taxed its export, then banned it entirely, and finally made smuggling it punishable by death. Shepherds near the coast had to account for every fleece within days of shearing to prove none had gone missing.

It didn't matter.

Smugglers known as Owlers moved wool across the Channel by night, using owl calls to find each other in the dark. When the breed reached New Zealand, it dominated the national flock within a generation. Lustrous, extraordinarily strong, and built to hold its shape under decades of daily wear, it only grows softer with age. The perfect wool for a carpet.

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Mulberry Silk

A single silk fiber is almost one kilometer long. Nothing else in nature comes close. That length is what gives silk its luster — the longer a fiber, the finer it can be spun. China treated silk production as a state secret. For a long time, most of the ancient world didn't even know what it was made from. No larva was ever allowed to leave the country.

Silk was so sought after in the ancient world, it gave its name to the most important trade route the world has ever known. It took three and a half millennia until monks from India and Byzantium successfully smuggled both the eggs and the mulberry trees that sustained the silk worms across the border.

The monopoly collapsed, but the material was never surpassed. Light, luminous, and extraordinarily strong, silk elevates every fiber it is paired with.

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Alpaca Wool

The Incas called it the Fabric of the Gods and valued it above gold. Only nobility were permitted to wear it. That reverence wasn't symbolic — it was earned.

Alpaca fiber is warmer than sheep's wool yet dramatically lighter, with a softness often compared to silk. It carries none of the lanolin that makes wool itch, making it naturally hypoallergenic.

And it comes in over forty natural shades, from deep blacks to pure whites — a range so rich that dyeing feels beside the point. We work with those raw colors untreated, washed and nothing more. Our alpaca is sourced from England and woven in Bristol, keeping the full journey close.

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