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SM x Original Madras Trading Company

We don't do a lot of collaborations, but this one is special. Original Madras Trading Company is a third-generation family business that’s been handweaving since the 1970s on traditional hand looms in — where else? — Madras, India. That's the birthplace of traditional Madras cloth (pronounced mud-ROSS,) defined as a plainweave fabric made from 100% Indian cotton and woven by hand with a minimum of two colors... but usually more. We love it for its breeziness and its light weight, but most of all for the unique, not-totally-perfect character of the hand weave. The irregularity is exactly what makes it so cool. While it takes a single weaver 4–6 hours to do what a machine loom could knock out in under 10 minutes... we think the end result is worth it. Slow and steady and wonderfully special. 

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