About — the house
A small house that mends what it makes.
01 — Why the name
An ourlet is the spare cloth left inside a hem.
Tailors leave it so a garment can be let down, let out, or mended years later. We think every piece of clothing should carry that kind of promise, so we build it into everything: generous seam allowances, spare buttons, a repair card stitched into the lining.
Our studio is eleven people. We buy cloth from four mills we have visited, cut no more than sixty pieces of any style, and keep the offcuts for patches and totes.
60
pieces per style, at most
4
mills we know by name
11
people in the studio
∞
free repairs per garment
02 — How we work
01
Cut slow
Small runs mean nothing is discounted, burned or forgotten in a warehouse.
02
Sew to last
French seams, bound edges and bar tacks at every stress point.
03
Mend forever
Bring it back, any year, any state. We will fix it free.
The hands behind it.
Ana Ferraz
Founder, pattern cutter
Miguel Sousa
Head of production
Joana Reis
Tailor
Tomás Lima
Mending & repairs