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EUROPEAN FLAX LINEN

WHERE OUR LINEN COMES FROM

Flax grows well in a narrow band of Western Europe where the climate is damp, cool and steady. It needs no irrigation and very little intervention to reach fibre length. Our linen is woven from flax grown in that band and spun in Europe, which keeps the supply chain short enough to actually verify.

COOL BY CONSTRUCTION

Linen does not cool you because of a coating or a treatment. It cools because the fibre is hollow and the weave is open, so air moves through the cloth and moisture leaves it faster than it arrives. Nothing is applied and nothing washes out. A linen shirt behaves the same in its fortieth summer as in its first.

THE WASH

Raw linen is stiff. We garment-wash every piece before it ships, which breaks the hand of the cloth and settles the shrinkage before it reaches you, not after. What arrives is already soft, already the size it will stay, and already carrying the relaxed surface that takes most linen a season of wear to earn.

WHY FLAX LINEN, NOT COTTON?

Cotton is softer out of the box and easier to print, which is why it dominates the shelf. But cotton holds moisture against the skin and takes its time releasing it — the reason a cotton shirt feels heavy by mid-afternoon in July. Flax absorbs and releases faster, stays dry against the body, and gets softer with every wash instead of thinner. Cotton wins the first five minutes. Linen wins the day.