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Founded in 2015 by

Billy Smith after a decade

of creating and making

first-generation products

at Apple and Patagonia.

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Nick Smith, brother,

lifelong collaborator, and

business partner, believed

in the vision and joined

the following year.

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Still entirely founder-owned

and operated today, we design,

research, develop, prototype,

engineer, test, manufacture, and

grow slowly under one roof.

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Our Double-Loop

philosophy of infinite

possibilities is simple:

Materials First

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Described by Toray,

the century-old Japanese

inventors behind Ultrasuede:

“Bilio represents thoughtful and

deliberate innovation. When

we come together, creation

expands endlessly.”

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Our building in Berkeley,

California embodies three

principled spaces:

Head

Curated materials library,

experimental swatch archive,

global procurement database,

and more than 1,880 vetted

vendors and suppliers.

Hands

Industrial design

studio, development lab,

production lines, custom

machinery, shipping

station, and full scale

receiving dock.

Heart

Private workshops, secure

project rooms, surfboard

museum, local art gallery,

books, gifts, and flowers.

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We collaborate long-term

with founders and leaders

who want to make the best.

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Together, we define the

art of modern craft by

applying traditional and

technical mastery through

a range of processes:

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assembling

automating

bonding

braiding

coating

covering

creasing

cutting

debossing

dyeing

embossing

embroidering

fastening

finishing

forming

fusing

knitting

laminating

linking

machining

molding

patterning

pleating

pressing

printing

punching,

quilting

sealing

sewing

skiving

splitting

steaming

taping

tooling

twisting

validating

weaving

and more

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Partner with us and

experience how we do

anything is how we do

Everything

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