Garment care is about cherishing and living fully in your loved pieces, preserving their story with gentle attention.

There is an art in knowing how to care for, and repair your clothing. To prolong the life of every garment, we encourage a gentle and thoughtful approach to care. Wash only when needed, tend to small repairs, and where possible, allow your clothing to refresh naturally in the open air. Mending a seam, hemming a pair of trousers, or resewing a loose button. Small acts of preservation to preserve the story of a garment.

Denim

When well looked after, denim is a material that truly softens and evolves with age. To wash or not to wash is a common question. If you choose to wash your denim, wash as rarely as possible. Otherwise you can even avoid washing altogether, by airing outside or storing your denim in the freezer overnight. In this way, you allow your denim to develop a lived-in feel. If or when you do wash your denim, we always advise you turn them inside-out and wash them on cold, with minimal detergent, and ideally in a separate load. Hang immediately after washing. 

Cotton & linen

Our cotton and linen garments are washable, however to get the most longevity out of your pieces we suggest washing them as little as possible – in this way you also use less water and electricity. Wash on cold or at 30°C and leave to air dry. 

Wool

Wool is naturally quite a resilient material, requiring minimal intervention to keep it clean. With its inherent self-cleaning properties we recommend to simply hang your knit outside for a refresh. If you do stain or dirty your knitwear and it needs a wash, we would also recommend washing by hand or on a delicate, low-temperature, and low-spin washcycle. To dry your knit, lay it flat over a towel and roll the two together and allow it to dry on a flat surface.

Delicate materials

To preserve their life, treat more delicate materials with care and wash lace and wool socks in a laundry bag either by hand or on a delicates cycle.

Fix a button

Thread your needle. Make a small stitch in the fabric to anchor your thread where you want the button to sit. Position the button on the fabric. Sew on the button, pushing the needle through one end and then through the opposite hole, and repeat a few times (for four-hole buttons, repeat this process on the opposite holes or sew in an ‘X’ pattern), keeping the tension a little bit loose. For extra security, wrap the thread around the base of the button. Finally, push the needle through to the back of the fabric and secure with two to three stitches. Trim any excess.  

Mend a seam

Firstly, remove any excess thread. Thread your needle. Begin sewing about 1 cm before the broken section of the seam. Follow the track of the old thread and sew along the fabric. Finish approximately 1 cm after the seam. Secure the thread on the inside of the garment, sewing a few stitches for security. Snip away any excess. 

Sew in a label

Thread your needle. Position the label where you would like it to sit. Place a stitch in each corner of the label, starting from the backside. Finally, fasten the thread by making a loop and pull the thread through, repeat a few times.

Hem your trousers

Thread your needle. Fold up trousers to the desired length, press with an iron and secure with pins. Stitch carefully along the inside with small, even stitches. Finally, fasten the thread by making a loop and pulling the thread through a few times.