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  <title><![CDATA[Silent Damask]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Silent Damask is a London textile boutique on Lambs Conduit Street carrying single-origin linen, wool, silk, and cotton from mills in Lyon, Kyoto, and Portugal.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Choose the Right Cloth for a Made-to-Order Coat]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The most common question we receive before a coat commission is about cloth choice. Customers often arrive with a colour in mind and a vague sense of weight, but the decision involves more than those two things. This is a practical guide to the variables that actually matter, drawn from making the Vellacourt Coat in a range of cloths since 2019.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-02</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Double-Faced Wool Actually Is and Why It Matters]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The term 'double-faced' appears on a lot of fabric listings, and it is used loosely. Some cloths described as double-faced are simply reversible: two layers bonded together with adhesive. True double-faced wool is a single woven structure in which both surfaces are finished identically, with no bonding agent and no wrong side. The difference matters.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Wash and Store Natural Fibre Cloth and Garments]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Natural fibre cloth is not fragile, but it is specific. Linen, wool, and silk each respond differently to water, heat, and storage. The most common damage we see in garments brought in for alteration is not wear but washing: too hot, too agitated, too fast. This is what we tell customers when they leave the shop.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-10</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nishijin Weaving: What the District Produces and Why It Endures]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Nishijin district of Kyoto occupies a few square kilometres in the northwest of the city. It has been a centre of silk weaving since the Heian period, roughly the 8th to 12th centuries, and at its peak in the Edo period employed tens of thousands of weavers. Today the number of active looms is a fraction of what it was, but the cloth produced there remains among the most technically accomplished textile work being done anywhere.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-08</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How Fermented Indigo Dye Works and What It Leaves on the Cloth]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The Kyoto indigo linen in the current collection was dyed using sukumo, a fermented indigo paste produced in Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. The process is slow, temperature-sensitive, and produces a colour that is different from synthetic indigo in ways that are visible to the eye. This is an explanation of what sukumo is, how it works, and what it means for the cloth.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-25</pubDate>
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