# About

- Page: https://demo.sellercart.shop/about
- Shop: [Atelier Nord](https://demo.sellercart.shop/), summed up in https://demo.sellercart.shop/llms.txt
- Markdown: every page of this shop has a copy like this one at its address plus `.md`

Our story

## A small studio with a long view

We make fewer things, better, and we keep making the ones that work.

![A small studio with a long view](https://media.sellercart.shop/ae696a33-bc5e-4582-8b10-0c7a065856ff/46afc4f2-c1d0-4363-a12d-0b93ec50af9d/workshop.webp)

## Why we started

Atelier Nord began in 2016 at a single cutting table in Lisbon. We wanted clothes that would still be worth wearing in ten years, and we could not find enough of them.

So we started making them: from natural fibres, in small batches, with the details that make a garment last — linked collars, canvassed fronts, corozo and horn buttons, seams that can be let out and mended.

Today we are eleven people. We still cut every piece in the same studio, and we still know the names of the people who weave our cloth.

The cloth

## From mills we know by name

Our wool comes from a mill in the Serra da Estrela that has spun since 1951, our linen from Flanders, our waxed cotton from Scotland. We visit every one of them, and we buy only what we will use.

![From mills we know by name](https://media.sellercart.shop/ae696a33-bc5e-4582-8b10-0c7a065856ff/17819633-3d01-472a-afae-936f5bf14a42/fabric-rolls.webp)

[Video: From mills we know by name](https://media.sellercart.shop/ae696a33-bc5e-4582-8b10-0c7a065856ff/9f7b3fac-0dda-4bc3-bc1c-f405b3dfd669/workshop.mp4)

- [Read about the mill](https://demo.sellercart.shop/blog/visiting-the-mill-that-spins-our-wool)

## From cloth to your door

1. **Pattern**: Every style is drafted by hand and tested for a season.
2. **Cut**: Small batches, so nothing is made that nobody wants.
3. **Sew**: In our studio and in two partner workshops nearby.
4. **Finish**: Pressed, checked and wrapped in recycled paper.

![A tailor's cutting table with paper patterns, chalk and folded wool cloth](https://media.sellercart.shop/ae696a33-bc5e-4582-8b10-0c7a065856ff/b86c3c9d-2759-43b8-aa51-13317d1b037c/story.webp)

The cutting table where every Atelier Nord piece starts.

- **Natural fibres**: No synthetics where wool, linen or cotton will do.
- **Small batches**: Rarely more than forty of a style.
- **Free repairs**: For the first two years of every piece.