Founded on a stubborn idea.
Field & Standard began in 2014 with a single hand-forged axe and a conviction: that the things you rely on should be the things you keep.
We started Field & Standard because we kept replacing the same things — the hatchet that chipped, the bag whose zipper quit a season in, the blanket that pilled by spring. Somewhere between the factory and the shelf, equipment had stopped being made to keep.
So we went looking for the people who never stopped. A two-man forge in the Hudson Valley that still hammers each axe head from bar stock. A woolen mill on its fourth generation of the same family and the same looms. A canvas workshop that sews duffels the way they sewed them for the merchant marine. We asked each of them to make one thing without compromise, and we put our name next to theirs.
Twelve years on, the catalog carries around sixty objects at any moment — never more. When a run sells through, it's gone until the workshop is ready to make more. Nothing is rushed, nothing is padded, and everything is serviced for life.
The company in numbers
- FoundedHudson Valley, 2014
- WorkshopsFourteen, across three countries
- Objects in the catalogNever more than sixty
- Blades sharpened free, to date12,408
- Lifetime guarantees honored3,112
- Items discontinued for qualityEleven
The hands behind the goods
Every object carries its maker's mark. These are a few of the workshops we are proud to name.
Granite Hollow Forge
Two smiths, one coal forge. Every felling axe is hammered, ground, and hung by the same pair of hands.
North Fork Woolen Mill
Fourth-generation weavers. Our camp blanket comes off looms that have run since 1918.
Yawata Edge Works
A blade town six centuries old. The field knife is forged, clayed, and polished entirely within one mile.
“We would rather make sixty things well than six hundred things quickly.”E. M. Hartley, Founder