1. The cloth

    It starts as twelve-ounce cotton

    Woven in the north of Portugal, on looms older than anyone who works them.

  2. The wax

    Then it is proofed, by hand

    A blend of paraffin and beeswax, worked in warm and left a week to settle.

  3. The table

    Cut and sewn by one person

    Whoever cuts your jacket sews it too, and signs the label inside the pocket.

  4. The years

    And then it is yours, for decades

    It darkens where you handle it. Send it back and we will make it new.