Materials & Process

Materials & Process

Where every piece comes from.

We name our mills, our growers, and our soap-house. If a material is in our range, you can see exactly where it was grown, woven, poured, or thrown.

Material 01

Belgian Flax Linen

— Libeco mill, Kortrijk, Belgium · weaving since 1858

Our pillow covers, tea towels, and bedding sets are woven from European Flax-certified Belgian linen. The flax is grown in a 200-mile band along the Atlantic coast of France and Belgium — the only place on earth where the climate produces this particular long-fiber flax — and woven by Libeco in Kortrijk on the same looms they have used for the better part of a century.

  • European Flax certified — traceable to the field
  • Pre-washed and softened in our Charleston studio
  • Stonewashed for a hand that arrives already broken-in
  • Loosens and softens further with every wash
  • Will outlast cotton by a factor of three to five
Material 02

Stoneware Clay

— Highwater Clays, Asheville, NC · founded 1980

Our vases, mugs, and dinner sets are hand-thrown by our Charleston studio team from a sand-coloured stoneware blend supplied by Highwater Clays in Asheville. Each piece is thrown on a kick wheel, dried, bisque-fired, glazed in our matte sand glaze, and high-fired a second time to vitrify.

  • Microwave and dishwasher safe
  • Lead-free, food-safe glaze
  • Develops a soft patina with use — this is intended
  • Each piece signed and numbered on the foot
Material 03

Soy-Coconut Wax Blend

— US-grown soy + Philippine coconut · cotton wick

Our candles are hand-poured in our Charleston studio from a 60/40 soy-coconut wax blend. We use cotton (zinc- and lead-free) wicks. The fragrance load is 8%, blended from natural essential oils — cedarwood, sage, vetiver — and a small percentage of phthalate-free fragrance for throw stability.

  • Hand-poured one cohort at a time
  • 40+ hour burn time on the 8oz, 80+ hour on the 16oz
  • Vessels are reusable hand-thrown stoneware (not glass jars)
  • No paraffin, no benzene, no soot
Material 04

Cold-Process Olive Oil Castile

— Castelbel, Vila do Conde, Portugal · 1917

Our soap bars are made by Castelbel, a five-generation Portuguese castile-soap house, from cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil and Atlantic sea salt. The bars are aged for six weeks before they leave the soap house, which gives them a hard, slow-melting bar that lasts twice as long as a typical glycerin soap.

  • Cold-process, six-week cure
  • Olive oil from the Alentejo region
  • No SLS, no parabens, no synthetic colour
  • Ph balanced to 8.0 — gentle on skin
Material 05

Carolina Sheep Wool

— Echoview Fiber Mill, Weaverville, NC · 12-flock co-op

Our wool throws are woven at Echoview Fiber Mill in Weaverville, North Carolina from a co-operative of twelve small Appalachian sheep flocks. The wool is undyed — the natural sand and cream colourways are the colours the sheep grew. We brush the throw lightly after weaving for a soft hand without releasing fibre.

  • 100% Carolina wool, undyed
  • Animal-welfare certified flocks
  • Minimal-impact processing — no chlorine, no polymers
  • Self-cleaning fibre — air out, do not over-wash