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Clothes are an object of social representation and a system of distinguishing marks, determining differences of generation, gender and culture. Clothing has also an important function in primordial and family links, contributing to the construction of the individual’s psychic envelopes. In this article the author investigates the way in which the in-vestiture, that marks structuring differences, and the in-vestment, that nourishes these links, will weave a grid of the family links, in which the body is incorporated. Founding myths, especially the one of Perceval, indicate how clothes are a smuggler that escort separations. The presentation of a family therapy shows how, from a shared torn skin, the textile envelope enables links between “marks without memory” and paves the way for the transgenerational.