The Journal

Every piece carries a small cotton tag sewn into its side seam. It is the least visible thing we make and the one that decides how many will ever exist.

Cold, gentle, shade. What each fibre wants, and how to put a piece away so it is still worth handing on in three years.

After the sugar is taken, what is left is called bagasse. Most of it is burnt in the mill yard. We buy the rest — and it becomes the fibre we use more than any other.

Four things worth looking for when you turn a garment inside out, and what each of them tells you about how a piece will behave on a child.

A dress that moves air, a shirt that stays cool, a seam that softens rather than wears out. What the fibres in a Zouhi piece are actually doing, and why a child stops noticing them.