The studio

Four people, six sewing machines and a cutting table by the window.

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How we started

In 2019 Ruta cut a shirt for herself from a roll of linen her aunt had sent from Lithuania. Friends asked for one, then friends of friends.

By the end of that year there was a waiting list and a rented table in a shared workshop.

We make twelve pieces a season and fifty of each. That is as many as four people can cut, sew, wash and check properly.

Nothing is made to be replaced next year. The shirt we sold first is still in the collection.

A pattern is drafted on paper and worn as a sample for a month.

Each piece is cut singly from washed cloth, never in a stack.

One person sews a garment from the first seam to the last button.

It is washed again, pressed lightly and checked before it leaves.

2019

One shirt, cut on a kitchen table in Dalston.

2021

A room of our own in Hackney, with a shop at the front.

2023

Tea towels and napkins join the clothing.

2025

Free mending for five years on everything we make.

Founder and cutter

Cuts every sample herself and still answers the studio phone.

Pattern maker

Twelve years in tailoring before she came to linen.

Machinist

Sews the coats, and most of the shirts.

Shop and mending

Runs the front of the studio and the mending desk.