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The studio

A slow shop, made plain.

NORTHWICK is one room above a bakery in Tacoma, with two sewing machines, a wide cutting table, and bolts of Belgian and Lithuanian linen stacked along the back wall.

Studio founder at the cutting table, measuring linen

From the founder

Five years, four products at a time.

When we started in 2019 the rule was simple — sew four things really well before we ever sew a fifth. The apron came first. Then the tote, the coat, the napkins. Each one stayed in the line only after a season of wearing them every day, washing them every week, and finding nothing we'd change.

We still work that way. Patterns get tested for a full season before they ship. Fabric comes from two mills we visit annually. And we sew everything ourselves — there is no third shift, no overseas line, and no rush we can't say no to.

If a seam ever fails, send it back. We'll repair it for free, for as long as the studio is open.

Inside the studio

How it gets made.

Hands stitching cream linen on a sewing machine

Folded linen pieces tied with raw twine, ready to ship

Cut by hand

Every panel is shears-cut from a single bolt. No die-cutting, no nesting software — just patterns, weights, and a long table.

Sewn slowly

French seams, bar-tacked stress points, double-needle hems. We aim for ten finished pieces a week — never more.

Washed before it ships

Each piece is washed and pressed in-studio so it arrives soft, pre-shrunk, and ready to wear or work in.

Materials

Two mills. One rule: tell us where the flax was grown.

We work with two family-run linen mills — one in Belgium, one in Lithuania. Both can trace their flax back to a specific harvest in a specific field, and both still wet-spin and air-dry the way mills did a century ago. The linen is heavier (240 gsm) and slower to soften, but it lasts decades instead of seasons.

For the few non-linen pieces — leather totes, oiled canvas — we source from US tanneries and mills that publish their dye and tanning processes in full. If a supplier won't tell us how something is made, we don't carry it.

There are five things in the shop right now, and there will probably be six by next spring. Slow is the point.

Ready when you are

See what's in the shop.

Five pieces, hand-finished in Tacoma. Every one is covered by our forever-repair program.

Browse the shop