Matteo

Matthew Lenoci founded MATTEO in 1996 to create simple sheets from the most luxurious textiles in the world.

Matteo sews  Los Angeles in a large workshop adjacent to their design studio. The constant circulation between design & production yields a fertile creative environment and unparalleled quality control.  We here at the Linen Closet love the softness of the fabric, and the beauty of the linen.

To Quote directly from Matteo:

"PHILOSOPHY - In order to create a completely unique sleeping experience we make our sheets from the most luxurious fabrics on the market. We spin yarns from the finest natural fibers - Egyptian cotton, Peruvian alpaca, Baltic flax, & Nepalese cashmere and we weave with leading fabric mills from all around the world where the collective wisdom of centuries is combined with cutting-edge technology.

We have often been asked "can you run your machines faster?". The answer is that we probably could, but we proudly do not. Because we believe in quality over the quantity we chose to sew slower with more stitches per inch and we choose to hand inspect every single sheet we produce. This is our way of assuring that all of our sheets are of highest quality.

GARMENT DYEING - We are one of very few bed linen companies that use this modern dyeing technology.  With garment dyeing, we cut and sew the fabric first and then dye the finished products after they are already sewn.

There are a number of advantages to garment dyeing including a more vintage washed look, the ability to offer more colors because of lower dyeing minimums, and softer fabric hand-feel.  However, there is the shade variation of +/- 10% from dye-lot to dye-lot.  What does this mean?  It means that bed linens dyed in one of our colors today will be a slightly different shade than bed linens dyed in the same color tomorrow.  All of us at MATTEO sleep on our sheets and we notice that after a few home washing and once the linens are on our bed, we really cannot tell the difference between two pillowcases or shams from different lots or even two sheets from different lots.

Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the greatest appeal of garment-dyeing is that in fact each and every product is unique and different than anyone else’s. We are very proud of being the industry leader in garment-dyed bed linens and intend to use this exiting technology to better serve you for many years to come."