The ledger — updated quarterly
Sustainability, with receipts
No leaves, no vague promises. This page is the actual ledger: who makes our clothes, what they're made from, what we've fixed, and the goals we haven't hit yet. If a number is missing, assume we're not proud of it and ask us anyway.
Every single one
The factory list
Three partners make everything we sell. All are audited annually, all pay above local living-wage benchmarks, and all have been visited by a founder in the last twelve months. Why we publish this.
| Factory | Location | Makes | Since | People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall Harbour Workroom | Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada | Cut & sew — outerwear, tees, canvas goods, home | 2020 | 38 |
| Braga Stitchworks | Braga, Portugal | Tailoring & wovens — coats, blazers, linen shirting | 2021 | 112 |
| Karnataka Knit Co-op | Bengaluru, India | Knitwear — merino and organic cotton, worker-owned co-op | 2022 | 74 |
Fibre by fibre
The materials index
Share of the current line by fibre, weighted by units produced. The last 3% is zips, buttons, and threads — we count those too.
| Fibre | Share of line | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Organic cotton | 41% | Certified organic; garment-dyed in closed-loop water systems |
| Mulesing-free merino | 22% | 17.5-micron, traceable to twelve named growers |
| European flax linen | 14% | Rain-fed flax; stone-washed without chlorine |
| Recycled wool | 12% | Post-consumer melton and shearling re-spun in Prato, Italy |
| Deadstock & offcuts | 8% | Sailmaker canvas and our own shirting offcut program |
| Everything else | 3% | Threads, corozo buttons, brass zips, recycled satin linings |
Honest scoreboard
Where we actually are
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Organic, recycled, or deadstock fibre across the line
78%
100% by 2028
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Orders shipped fully plastic-free
100%
Held since 2024
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Garments repaired free under the lifetime promise
62%
1,412 of 2,280 requests completed this year
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Factory wage premium above local living-wage benchmark
100%
All three partners, audited annually
The good kind of forever
Repairs for life, actually
Anything we made, we fix, free, for as long as the garment exists — seams, zips, buttons, re-waxing, darning. Post it to the studio or drop it at the Halifax workroom. Average turnaround is eleven days, and 1,412 repairs have gone home so far this year.
Can't part with it for two weeks? The journal's repair guides cover the fixes you can do with a needle and twenty minutes, and re-wax kits for the Deck Jacket ship free. The greenest garment is the one still being worn — everything else on this page is in service of that sentence.
Since 2024
Plastic-free, held
Every order ships in recycled kraft boxes and paper tape, with cellulose garment wrap where wovens need it. No poly mailers, no bubble wrap, no plastic tape — including returns, which come with a pre-folded paper return wrap. The last poly mailer we ever bought is framed above the packing bench.