Miik styles are made in Canada, in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario! 🇨🇦
After being designed by our founder Donna and our production team, our styles are all made using custom fabric before being constructed; so while this process doesn't take place in one spot, it all DOES take place in the Greater Toronto Area! We work with two local fabric mills, a dye house, a local pattern maker, and 6 sewing manufacturers all within 50 km of our studio. Then we ship all of your items to you ourselves from our warehouse/distribution centre located in Etobicoke!
To get down to the details...
The large majority of our fabrics are custom-made for us in Canada - right here in the Greater Toronto Area! From thread to hanger, every step of our production process from custom milling and dyeing our fabrics, to cutting and sewing the finished garments takes place within 50 km of our Etobicoke headquarters. (FYI: Custom milling is the process of making our own fabric – turning fibres from sustainable resources into yarn, and yarn into fabric. Cool, right?!)
The source of some fibres (which are then used to mill yarn and make our fabric in Canada) have to come from overseas: Rayon from bamboo fibres and Beech tree fibres come from China. No matter how much we wish for it, Canada's colder climate simply isn't suitable for large-scale farming of these trees, which prefer warmer, tropical conditions. But again, we use those fibres in Canada -- to mill yarn and make our fabric right here in the GTA.
What we can't do in Canada: We use a Canadian supplier to purchase our patterned fabrics (not including striped fabrics, which we custom-mill); however, our Canadian supplier stocks their resources from various locations. We ensure they are all OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified and sustainably made, but unfortunately, the fabric itself cannot be made in Canada. There simply is no one available to do so. Once it's in our hands, however, all our Canadian contractors make those patterned fabrics into the finished styles you know and love.