Anyone who has bought lace in Lagos knows the problem. The same dessin, the same colour, half the price — and half the thread. Only an insider can tell a Lustenau original from a copy, and by the time you can, you have already worn it.
What comes with every OLORI cut
- The certificate of the dessin. Every one of our sixteen dessins has its own card: the name, the design number, the fabric, and one paragraph on what it is. It is printed once, for that dessin only, and goes into every parcel of it.
- The stamp of the mill. Before the parcel closes, the card is stamped by Stickerei Sükün e.U., Lustenau — the family that embroiders the cloth on Saurer and Lässer schiffli machines. Nothing is written on it. The stamp is the whole point.
- The woven OLORI label on the selvedge and the hang tag on the pack, as in every picture on this site.
How to check a piece
Look for the card and the stamp. A card without the stamp, or a stamp that is not ours, means the cloth did not come from us. If you are unsure, e-mail us a photo of the card and we tell you.
Why we can promise this
Because the family that runs the machines is the family that packs the parcel. OLORI is the direct label of a Lustenau embroidery mill. The town has supplied the West African lace trade since the 1960s; the Sükün family has embroidered here since 1999. There is no one between the frame and your door — which is the only place a stamp can honestly be set.
