About Us

There’s a particular kind of quiet in old things.

In traditional Romanian embroidery, diamonds, solar wheels, the Tree of Life—every line carried meaning. They weren’t just pretty patterns. They were protection, identity, hope, belonging. Women stitched them by hand on blouses and household textiles. Not for aesthetics. For memory.

Today, much of what was once alive risks becoming merely “traditional”, something put behind glass, frozen, museum-like. And that’s a loss.

Echoes of Our Past was born from the desire not to let these symbols disappear or live only in photographs. We want them back in everyday life, not as souvenirs, not as folk décor for the wall, but as simple, beautiful garments you can wear without a special occasion.

We start from motifs in Romanian needlework, but we don’t copy them mechanically. We reinterpret them. We distill them. We reduce them to their essential geometry. We bring the solar wheel into a minimalist circle. We draw the Tree of Life as a clear, almost graphic line. We hold onto the symbolic thread.

Our aesthetic is quiet, understated, nostalgic. Natural tones, small accents. Nothing loud. Nothing that feels like a “souvenir.” Pieces you can wear in the city, at the office, on a plane, anywhere ,carrying a trace of home.

For us, nostalgia doesn’t mean “going back.” It means continuity, the sense that you are not just you-alone-today, but part of a longer line. That someone, a hundred years ago, stitched that symbol by hand. And today you wear it on your chest. And without saying a word, people ask, “What does it mean?”

That’s what we want.

We want the conversation.

We want people who didn’t grow up with these motifs to see them for the first time and simply like them as design. And we want those who recognize them to feel, “Yes, this is ours.”

Echoes of Our Past isn’t fast fashion. It’s not a seasonal folk trend. It’s an attempt to keep something alive, in the most accessible form possible: a T-shirt you love and reach for again and again.

We don’t recreate the past. We carry it forward.