Linen Way

Linen Way's about-us page describes it as a family business founded and still run by Svetlana Gouchtchina with her children Maria and Michael, with no mention of outside investors or a parent company. Corporations Canada's federal registry returned zero results for the name, indicating it is not a federal corporation, and the Ontario Business Registry blocked automated access, so no registry could confirm its provincial structure or shareholding directly.

• Discover About Linen Way - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “Svetlana and her family who have also joined the company, Maria and Michael, continue to dedicate and preserve their heritage”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Online Filing Centre - Corporations Canada - Corporations - Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada registry “0 results were found, 0 returned.”
• Home Textiles: Linen Way | Made in CA directory “Canadian Owned: Yes”

Linen Way's Made in Canada collection lists tea towels, napkins, tablecloths, throws, and scarves, but no duvets, sheets, or bedspreads. Every product page in the bed collection instead states an Origin outside Canada: the Serein duvet and sheet sets are made in Portugal, the Solace alpaca duvet and Livorno bedspread are made in Peru, and the five Trieste stonewashed linen products (duvet cover set, linen duvet cover, flat sheet, fitted sheet, sheet set) list Origin as "imported" without naming a country. The about-us page attributes the company's non-Canadian, non-Peru manufacturing to Italy, Portugal, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Latvia, so the unnamed imported linen bedding is estimated as mostly EU with some allowance for a non-EU source such as Ukraine.

• Made in Canada - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “At Linen Way, we transform premium fabrics like linen, baby alpaca, wool, and cashmere into timeless, handcrafted textiles at our Canadian studio.”
• Serein Duvet Set - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “Materials 40% linen & 60% cotton Origin Portugal Design designed in Canada”
• Solace Alpaca Duvet - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “Origin crafted in Peru”
• Trieste Duvet Cover - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “Materials 100% stone washed linen Origin imported Design designed in Canada”
• Discover About Linen Way - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “Our products are crafted in Canada, Peru, Italy, Portugal, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Latvia.”

The company's only disclosed location is its warehouse and showroom in Concord, Ontario, where it moved in 2009; no other office, studio, or facility is named anywhere on the site, and a directory listing corroborates Concord, ON as its base.

• Discover About Linen Way - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “in 2009 the company moved to its current warehouse and showroom in Concord Ontario”
• Home Textiles: Linen Way | Made in CA directory “Manufactured In: Concord, ON”

Linen Way states the majority of the flax used for its linen is grown in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, and its Trieste (100% stonewashed linen) and Serein (linen and cotton) bed lines are woven from that fabric, while the alpaca in the Solace duvet and Livorno bedspread is sourced from an artisan mill in southern Peru. No product page discloses a country of origin for the cotton blended into Serein or the wool in the Livorno bedspread, so the split follows the same product-line weighting used for manufacturing.

• About Linen | Benefits and Uses - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “the majority of flax used to make linen is grown in France, Belgium and the Netherlands”
• Livorno Alpaca Bedspread - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “We source our alpaca bedspread from an artisan textile mill in southern Peru.”
• Serein Duvet Set - Shop Linen Way vendor_statement “Materials 40% linen & 60% cotton Origin Portugal”