Fabric Care
We believe that caring for your garments well can help extend the wearable life of them. Here we give some detail on each of our fabrics including technical information and laundering guidelines and recommendations. Each garment comes with a sewn in care label for you to follow too.
Cotton Elastane
Our cotton elastane fabric is a heavy weight t-shirting fabric. The elastane gives the fabric a slight stretch and helps it keep its shape, even after many wears and washes (check out my 30 wears challenge to see how it wears).
This fabric will shrink slightly in the length after washing (allow 5% shrinkage) but will not shrink in the width. Being a predominantly natural fabric you can expect some colour fade through wear, washing and exposure to sunlight.
This fabric is used for all of our t-shirts and t-shirt dresses.
93% Cotton
7% Elastane
cold machine wash
like colours together
do not soak or bleach
low tumble dry
line dry in shade
medium iron on reverse
drycleanable
Linen cotton
Our linen cotton fabric is a beautiful, mid weight linen and is lovely and soft.
The fabric is prewashed to remove any shrinkage and finishing starch from the fabric, though we recommend cold washing for general laundering. Being a predominantly natural fabric you can expect some colour fade through wear, washing and exposure to sunlight.
To extend the life, and particularly the colour of your linen garment you might consider hand washing the piece in cold water, however machine washing is fine (and how I wash my linen) but do expect a bit more fading if you do.
This fabric is used for our linen dresses, skirts, pants, and shorts (unless otherwise specified).
Linen Cotton
cold machine wash
like colours together
do not soak or bleach
low tumble dry
line dry in shade
medium iron on reverse
drycleanable
Merino
Our merino fabric is a medium weight (255gsm) sweat shirting fabric.
I've sampled a lot of merino fabrics and this by far is the best quality I have found. It wears incredibly well, does not pill, has minimal shrinkage (allow up to 5% shrinkage in length), washes well, and feels so soft against the skin. It is only available in black (otherwise I'd be ordering it in every colour). I'm currently wearing my merino dress for its fifth winter and it still looks as good as new.This fabric is used for our merino long sleeves and merino dress styles.
The care instructions below are what I use, I put my merino in the wash with the rest of my clothes. If you like you can use wool wash on the merino to provide a bit more care.
98% Merino
2% Elastane
cold machine wash
like colours together
do not soak or bleach
low tumble dry
line dry in shade
medium iron on reverse
dry-cleanable