Most brands pick colours from a catalogue. You scroll, you click, you order. It takes an afternoon.
We spent three months on it.
We couldn't find what we were looking for. So we made it ourselves.
It started with places, not palettes
We didn't open a trend report. We opened our cameras.
Blush pink came from villa walls at sunrise. That specific shade of terracotta that's been bleached by sun until it's almost pink. Soft, a little faded. The kind of colour you notice on a morning walk.
Deep olive came from olive groves. Leaves that have been in the summer sun for months. Dark, but somehow still warm.
Light blue came from old shutters on buildings near the sea. Dusty, washed-out, the kind of blue that happens slowly, over years, when salt air gets into the paint.
Beige came from limestone streets and raw linen before it becomes anything. Simple as that.
Cacao came from volcanic earth and a strong espresso at the end of a long day. The darkest one. The shade that holds everything else together.
Five colours. Five places we kept returning to.
Linen has its own opinion about color
Dyeing linen is genuinely hard. It's a natural fibre and it absorbs colour in its own way, unevenly, organically. Two pieces from the same dye batch can look different in different light. That's part of what makes it interesting. It's also what made this process take as long as it did.
The dye is made to our exact specifications. The fabric soaked, treated, temperature and timing controlled. Then we wait. Then we look. Then we go again.
Round after round of samples. Natural light, morning light, afternoon light, all of it. Some colours took four rounds to get right, some took more. Every single time, the same question: does this feel like the place it came from?
What we actually wanted
Colours that get better with time. Linen holds colour differently to other fabrics. It deepens a little with wear, becomes more itself. We wanted colours that worked with that, not against it.
Colours that go together without trying too hard. Blush pink and deep olive. Beige and cacao. Things that feel like they belong in the same wardrobe without you having to think about it.
And colours that feel real. Not trend colours, not safe colours either. Something that has existed somewhere in the world for a long time and feels familiar the moment you see it.
The five shades
Blush pink. Faded villa walls at sunrise.
Deep olive. Olive groves and wild herbs.
Light blue. Weathered shutters and sea haze.
Beige. Limestone streets and raw linen.
Cacao. Volcanic earth and evening espresso.
Each one developed from scratch. Each one took longer than we expected.
Made in Lithuania, small batches, 100% linen.
We think they were worth it.
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