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Savoir-Faire

Stitched by hand, one garment at a time.

Embroidery is where a K-Loh piece stops being clothing and starts being kept. It is also the slowest thing we do, and we would not speed it up if we could.

A machine can repeat a motif. It cannot decide one.

Sfifa braid, aakad knots, couched metallic thread: the vocabulary is centuries old, and every embroiderer in the atelier learned it by eye, against a chalk line, from someone who learned it the same way.

The garment is assembled first, then embroidered, so every motif sits exactly where the body will carry it.

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Embroidery in progress at the Maison K-Loh atelier

The craft

A collar can take a morning. A full front, the better part of a week. The thread is laid, couched, and knotted by hand, and each embroiderer signs the atelier log for the pieces they finish.

That signature is why no two runs are ever quite identical, and why we would not have it any other way.

How editions work
Gold sfifa on black velvet, worked by hand
A machine can repeat a motif. It cannot decide one.
The atelier’s head embroiderer
5embroiderers sign the atelier log, each for their own pieces
1 morningfor a collar; a full front takes the better part of a week
0machines involved in any motif, anywhere in the collection

Wear the work of hours.

Embroidered pieces are marked on their product pages, under Materials and Sizing.

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