Say it like a Canadian: oss·eh.

The materials. Cotton and flax out of the soil. Salt air and the Pacific that tempers every test piece. Wool and cedar from the evergreen coast — and "evergreen" is the promise: never in fashion, never out of it.

The Latin. Os — bone. The structure under everything. A wardrobe cut down to what holds you up: five garments, thick fabric, nothing decorative. Down to the bone.

The mark. A sun over the sea over the soil — the coast we make on, drawn in three strokes. You'll find it woven inside, and nowhere outside except a tonal degree mark at the hem.

OSSE designs and sews in Vancouver, on lands whose peoples have stewarded these forests, rivers and coastlines since time immemorial — and whose weaving traditions in cedar bark and mountain-goat wool are among the oldest textile practices on this coast.

You won't find borrowed motifs anywhere in our catalogue. Indigenous art appears on an OSSE garment only when an Indigenous artist puts it there — named, credited and paid on every unit. Each year, the Artist Series hands one garment from the five to a Coast Salish artist as a canvas: the artist keeps creative control, royalties are published openly, and a share of series revenue goes to Indigenous youth art programs in BC.