One woman, one machine, one garment at a time.

Tania designs and sews every Lohi piece herself, in our Ranfurly studio, from European deadstock linen — beautiful cloth that would otherwise go to waste. Nothing is mass-produced. When a garment sells out, it’s simply because there’s one pair of hands making them. Slow fashion isn’t a tagline here; it’s just the speed we go.

Each piece is named for the Central Otago landscape it comes from — the hills, valleys and stations you can see from the workroom window. Wear a Lohi garment and you’re wearing a small piece of the Māniatoto.

“Every garment has a name. Every name has a place.”

The Kyeburn top and Stanley shorts, before the Kyeburn cliffs they’re named for. Every garment has a name; every name has a place.

It began with a memory.

The whole thing started with a childhood memory of Tania’s — of a high-country farmer named Eden Hore, and the extraordinary couture collection he gathered out here in the Māniatoto in the 1970s. That’s a long and remarkable story, and it’s the one this brand is built on. We tell it properly on its own page.

Why it sits at the heart of it all.

Lohi is the brand the roof was built for — and the company it keeps tells you what it stands for. Linen made slowly, beside wool, silver, womenswear and the rest, all made by hand by people who live just up the valley. We’re proud to be one of them.

• Maker: Tania — designs and sews every piece herself
• Material: European deadstock linen, rescued from waste
• Made: by hand in Ranfurly, Central Otago
• Named for: the Central Otago landscapes outside the workroom
• Found at: Lohi Linen, 8 Charlemont Street, Ranfurly

The Slow Post

One letter a month from Ranfurly — the makers, the landscape, the making. We’ll introduce you to the people behind every piece in the store.