IV · Journal

Dispatches from Altitude

Notes from the studio floor, the loom, and the highlands. Published rarely, read slowly.

Four days in the Simien range with the head weaver. Wind at 2,900 metres teaches you what a seam needs to hold.

Why the Ascension Coat weighs 2.4kg — and why removing a single gram would change everything.

Twenty-nine years at the loom. A pattern inherited from her grandmother. Her initials are on every bronze tag from Bay 3.

Why our seasons are short and our runs are shorter. A quiet manifesto against volume.