Giza 94

Giza 94 cotton boll opening in the field

A cotton born in near-desert land, made extraordinary by the water of the Nile. Egyptian Mako cotton begins along the banks of the Nile, where a particular meeting of climate, light and river-fed soil produces a fibre unlike any grown elsewhere. The land reads as near-desert; the river makes it fertile. From that contradiction comes […]

The hand

A hand reading the surface of a Beltrami cloth

In the textile trade, the word for how a cloth feels is its hand.The word is literal. Explore Issue N°1 Before weight, before fibre content, before anything a label records, a cloth is judged by its hand: the way it falls and folds, the coolness it gives, the way it meets the fingers and answers […]