HOW WE SOURCE
We hand source, hand wash, hand cut and lovingly create all of our items from scratch. We scour thrift stores, flea markets, estate sales, and yes, my grandmother’s button collection to find our materials. Even our thread is thrifted. We buy the forgotten. We save from landfills. We give new life.
HOW WE CUSTOMIZE AND CREATE
We also work hard to customize our items as much as possible. Yes, we can incorporate the pocket from your late grandfather’s favourite shirt. One of our first projects was a hobo bag made from my late father’s favourite ties. Yes, we can match a colour story (Within reason - do you know how rare ORANGE quilts are??). Get in touch with us - attend one of our sustainable shopping soirees - and use our custom creator tool to find your own story through textile. Better yet, bring your own fabric - for inclusion, for inspiration. We’ll show you how to give it new life!
HOW IT FEELS
We also promise that we don’t create anything we would not wear ourselves. That means garments that FEEL GOOD. We choose soft, natural fabrics, ones that have been handmade, or at least have stood the test of time. Washable. Dryable. Wearable like a walking hug!
OUR PROMISE TO THE EARTH
We have made a pledge to support the UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
Specifically, we target Goal #12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. We source sustainably. Period. We buy used. Thrifting is our mantra. Some of our items come from thrift stores, flea markets (including ‘Les Puces’ in Paris!), yard sales, estate sales, and even our own family attics - in fact, nearly all of the buttons we use come from those collected over decades by my grandmother, an immigrant who worked as a seamstress when she arrived in Canada from a camp, after WWII. I just know she’d be proud to see them, generations later, given a second life!
We also strive to pay fair rates for any work we outsource, and give the work to women in need, immigrants and refugees. We also love to hear from other sustainable, women-owned businesses.
