Cloth Tone is a textile studio based in British Columbia, Canada. Committed to designing with natural materials, sourcing responsibly and weaving unique, timeless and embodied textiles, Cloth Tone embraces a philosophy of ‘textiles for life’. Cloth Tone textiles honour the unique qualities of raw materials and evoke a strong sense of place, experience and emotion.

Cloth Tone is dedicated to exploring what it means to make slow cloth in a sustainable and embodied way while addressing themes related to the body, labor, the environment and materiality. If we turn our attention to cloth as a means for living sustainably into the future what are the possible outcomes?

Cloth Tone collaborates with designers, artists, writers and retailers with an interest in handwoven textiles and contemporary cloth culture.

Larissa Beringer is a textile artist currently based in Central Okanagan. She received her BFA (Major in Textiles) at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and her Masters in Library and Information Science at McGill University. Former Art, Design and Architecture Librarian at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design from 2006-2017 and at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY from 2003-2006. Larissa approaches textiles much like language and considers weaving a means for exploring ideas, nuance and poetry. Her work is driven by an interest in the historical narrative behind material objects and their ability to communicate lived experience. Her research and design process is guided by art and design histories in conversation with the language of raw materials such as local wool, alpaca, organic linen and hemp. Larissa’s attachment to textiles looks back to many generations of women dedicated to producing, gifting, collecting and immigrating with textiles.

We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Syilx / Okanagan People.