Clothes dyed with what the tide leaves behind. Madder, indigo and kelp ash on reclaimed silk and linen, cut in a harbour-side workshop and made to be worn for decades.

See the Tide drop
Drop 04 — Tide SS27 · 6 pieces
Night-dip topIron black, dyed with oak galls
Harbour trouserDead-stock wool, one pressed pleat
01 — The fit

Loose through the leg, high at the waist, and dyed until the black turns soft.

02 — The dye house

Nothing here starts from new. Silk offcuts, dead-stock linen, the odd bolt a mill forgot. Each piece is dipped by hand, left to oxidise in the sea air, then finished at a single bench, so no two drops ever quite match.

Reclaimed silk
Offcuts from two Lyon ateliers
Dead-stock linen
Normandy flax, dew-retted
Madder root
Coral pink, grown 12 km inland
Fermented indigo
Tide blue, vat kept since 2019

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Drop 04 — Tide. Made in runs of forty; when a piece is gone, the colour is gone with it.

Black sleeveless mock-neck top in a studio

Night-dip top

€110
Organic cotton · oak-gall black
Dark wide-leg trousers

Harbour trouser

€190
Dead-stock wool · one pressed pleat
Open silver cuff bracelet on white

Mooring cuff

€140
Recycled silver
Pair of small silver hoop earrings

Salt hoops

€75
Recycled silver
Black leather bag on a light backdrop

Harbour tote

€220
Vegetable-tanned leather
Model in black with chunky black boots

Dock boot

€240
Leather · lug sole
Model in the Night-dip top and Harbour trouser
The Night-dip top and Harbour trouser, worn in — Drop 04.

Wear it until the colour becomes yours.

Natural dyes soften with sun and washing. We mend and re-dip any Kora piece for free, for as long as we are here.

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