Majdal: Where the Name Comes From

Before Majdal was a collection, it was a city. A Palestinian coastal town, known for centuries as one of the finest weaving centers in the Levant. Its looms produced linen and cotton so refined they were traded across the Ottoman world, carried by hand from a small stretch of Mediterranean coastline to markets far from home.

The weavers were known by their craft before anything else. A specific striped weave, woven by hand, became so closely tied to the city that the fabric and the place were spoken of as one. Majdal didn't just make cloth. It was the cloth.

That tradition didn't survive the upheavals of 1948, when the city's weavers were displaced and the looms fell silent. It's a story with both craft and loss in it, and we didn't want to borrow the name without sitting with that.

Two Linen Traditions

The linen in this collection is not woven in Majdal. It's French linen, sourced from Normandy, from mills that have grown and worked flax for generations of their own. We won't pretend otherwise. What we can do is name the collection after the weavers who came before, and let the name carry the weight of a craft worth remembering — even one we didn't inherit directly.

Two coastlines. Two linen traditions. One collection, built on both, honest about each.

What's In It

Majdal is pants, shorts, and shirts cut from that French linen — Tan, Light Brown, Espresso, Black, Sand Stripe, Sage, White, Cream White. Loose where it should be loose. Cut for heat, for movement, for the kind of summer that doesn't need explaining. Nothing about it is dressed up. It's meant to be worn until it softens.

It's the quietest collection we've made, and the one with the most behind it.

A note on the name: Majdal refers to the historic Palestinian coastal weaving city. This collection is a tribute to that craft heritage, not a claim of material origin — the linen itself is sourced from Normandy, France.