Technical Softgoods

Doña Ily is our first and definitely most indispensable sewer and pattern maker. After fifteen years of sewing in our shop in Yucatán, we gifted her her favorite machine to use as she sees fit. Aside from making everything to outfit countless hotels in Tulum and all over the peninsula, she’s also a phenomenal dressmaker who never ceases to amaze me with her skill and ingenuity. Yes, we all cried, and yes, it was beautiful.
Doña Ily es nuestro primero y más indispensable costurera y creadora de moldes. Después de quince años costurando en nuestro taller en Yucatán, la regalamos su máquina favorita para usar como quite. Aparte de hacer todas las cosas de tela para bastante hoteles por Tulum y todo de la peninsular, también es una modista fenomenal quien nunca para en asombrarme con su habilidad y ingenio. Si, todos lloramos, y si, fue hermoso.

A little low-tech welding detail on a prototype. We needed a clean and extremely low profile edge treatment on this cutout…binding was impractical, and inverted construction left the edge too thick (since you’re essentially doubling the layers.) So, I topstitched the cutout and then heat-welded TPU laminate to both sides, overlapping the cutout by a few mm. Looking forward to seeing how we can make this work in production…