The loom that runs one metre an hour
In a shed outside Wakefield, a loopwheel machine from 1953 knits our jersey at a pace no accountant would approve of.
March 2026
Six pieces, cut from cloth that improves with age.
Discover the collectionFashion moves. Clothing stays. We have only ever been interested in the second one.
Élise Vaugier — Founder
Most of that is not sewing. It is the cutting, the pressing, the resting of the cloth between each stage — the slow parts a factory removes first. We kept them, because they are the reason the shoulder still sits right in ten years.
Every piece leaves with a repair number stitched into the facing. Send it back frayed, torn or moth-bitten and we will mend it — no receipt, no time limit, no charge.
In a shed outside Wakefield, a loopwheel machine from 1953 knits our jersey at a pace no accountant would approve of.
March 2026Six pieces, worn for a decade, will always say more than sixty worn for a summer. A case for buying slowly.
February 2026Every Velore piece carries a repair number stitched into the facing. Send it back and we will mend it, for as long as you own it.
January 2026One when the collection lands, one when the cloth runs out. Nothing else — we find the alternative as tiresome as you do.