Story

We are artists at heart and by training, who found ourselves working together (remotely) at the same company. As designers, we've spent the majority of our days behind a screen, pushing pixels and tracking metrics, conversion, and churn.

You can imagine that we spend most of our non-working hours making things with our hands.

Somewhere during the many Zoom work meetings, we learned that we shared many common interests. Luke shared his painting practice, and Erica shared her interest in textiles and sewing. This discovery of mutual interests turned into an experiment: natural dyeing of found fabrics with plants and rust and time, painting pigments onto textiles that have already lived a little. Slowly, as we had studio hours to spare, what we were making turned into children's clothing. There was something right about starting a child's wardrobe with fabric that already has history in it.

It's been over a year now of prototypes mailed back and forth between us. Packages opened at kitchen tables, notes tucked inside about what worked and what didn't, ideas scribbled in a shared sketchbook. Nothing about this project has moved fast, and that's something we've enjoyed about it. There are no deadlines we have to meet, not a single thing to track except when a package is arriving. Everything about our process is shared: one of us starts a piece, the other finishes it, and somewhere in between it becomes something neither of us would have made alone.

Our own kids started wearing what we made. At the park, at the library, at school, someone always asks: What is that? Where did you get it? There's a particular kind of good feeling in making something with your hands and then watching your own child live in it, and having to explain, again, that no, you can't buy it yet.