Every thread
has an origin.
Ours has a city.
The place silk has been made for two thousand years.
Suzhou sits in the Yangtze Delta, where soft water runs through the canals and mulberry trees thrive in the humid air. The city has been weaving silk since before Europe had glass windows.
UNESCO recognizes the craft of Chinese sericulture as part of the world's intangible cultural heritage — a designation given to fewer than six hundred traditions on earth.
There is a reason the world's finest silk comes from one place. We didn't try to improve on two millennia of knowledge. We went to the source.
Momme (mom-ay) is how silk is weighed.
The heavier the momme, the denser the weave, the longer the life of the cloth. Most silk pillowcases on the market are 19 momme. We chose 22.
It is the difference between silk that feels delicate and silk that feels alive — supple enough to drape across your skin, dense enough to outlast a decade of washes.
There are six grades of mulberry silk, defined by fiber length and uniformity. We use only 6A — the longest, finest, most consistent grade in production. Anything less pills, thins, and tells on itself within a year.
It takes 2,500 cocoons
to make a single pillowcase.
Each cocoon yields one continuous filament — sometimes nearly a kilometer long — reeled by hand and twisted into yarn so fine that twenty-two layers must be woven together to reach our weight.
Cultivate
Silkworms feed on mulberry leaves from the Taihu basin for twenty-eight days, spinning a single continuous filament into a cocoon.
Reel
Cocoons are unwound by hand. Each yields up to a kilometer of thread, joined and twisted into yarn fine enough for fine weaving.
Weave
Traditional looms in Suzhou workshops, run by hands that have done this work for three generations. Twenty-two layers per square meter.
Finish
French seams, concealed YKK zippers, hand-rolled edges on the masks. Slower than a machine could do it. That is the point.
Before a piece leaves the workshop, it passes three inspections.
- We reject Any pillowcase with a slub larger than a grain of rice.
- We reject Any seam with a stitch density below fourteen per inch.
- We reject Any color batch that varies by more than two shades across a single bolt.
Roughly 1 in 12 pieces we make never reaches a customer.
This is the only reason the rest of it can.
Why $95.
Premium cotton wears thin in four to five years. Properly cared for, 22 momme silk lasts a decade — or longer.
Over the years you'll sleep on this pillowcase, it costs roughly three cents a night.
Less than the coffee you'll have in the morning.
We did not build a brand around silk.
We built a sanctuary — and silk happened to be how it begins. Every thread you sleep against was chosen by someone who believed you deserved this.
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