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Notes from a wet workshop
Field notes, repair guides and material explainers, written by the people who sew the jackets. No trend reports.
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From bottle to 70-denier ripstop: the nine days in between
A 500ml bottle arrives at the quay in Peniche tangled in a net. Nine days later it is yarn on a beam in Guimarães. We followed one batch through every hand it passes and timed each stage, including the two days it spends waiting.
18 March 2026 · 9 min read
Six weeks of Atlantic rain, one jacket
We sent a Southbank to a cyclist in Porto and asked her to log every wet ride, every wash and every time the zip snagged.
4 March 2026
How to fix a torn shell without a workshop
Ten minutes, one patch, no iron. The method our two tapers use for the repairs that come back by post.
26 February 2026
Why your waterproof jacket stopped being waterproof
It is almost never the membrane. It is detergent, softener and a DWR that needs twenty minutes in a tumble dryer.
19 February 2026
What a recycled certificate does not tell you
GRS traces the fibre. It says nothing about the dye house. Here is the gap we spent fourteen months trying to close.
11 February 2026
The pocket we redesigned eleven times
Angle, depth and where the zip ends up when you are wearing gloves. Eleven samples, then we got it right.
2 February 2026
What 312 customers told us about our sizing
We asked every buyer in 2025 to tell us how the fit actually ran. Two sizes were wrong. We changed both.
21 January 2026
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