Like the best of stories, the TOSHINEU journey unfolded from a personal experience.

Having worn and slept in pure silk since she was a child, TOSHINEU founder Anne Gaelle grew up observing her mother using this exquisite fibre in her everyday. When a close Canadian friend asked Anne to source a raw silk duvet similar to her own, she discovered just how saturated the market had become with industrially-produced silk. Spurred by the desire to share the quality of traditionally-made raw silk, Anne left behind the frantic pace of her corporate job in the tech world and launched TOSHINEU in 2018.

As Anne embraced an inner equilibrium and a slower way of living, she began to collaborate with the handful of practising mulberry silk artisans that remain in China today, who continue to work using the closely-kept secrets of silk-making using traditional techniques that have been passed down across generations. It is an artisanal skill that is over a thousand years old and one that produces a silk that is purer, softer, and smoother than the more common industrial version.

Through each TOSHINEU lifestyle product, Anne has made it her mission to revive a craft that is at risk of being lost to industry-standards while preserving a connection to an art that is over a thousand years old.

Her mantra? We are all born to shine from within – just like silk.