Humphries Weaving

Custom fabric designer featured in Homes ad Interiors Scotland article

Humphries Weaving's new designer Jenny Newman is featured in this month's edition of Homes and Interiors Scotland.

Jenny, who studied at Heriot-Watt University, was featured in the article as one of four new weavers who hail from Scotland. Jenny was selected to join Humphries Weaving for her skills in creating new Jacquard fabrics and custom weaves.

Issue 87 January and February 2013

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Dumfries House in Homes and Interiors Scotland

Dumfries House continues to attract the attention of the public as the exquisite woven textiles from Humphries Weaving are featured in Homes and Interiors Scotland magazine's indepth article on the house and its restoration.

Issue 86 November and December 2012

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House and Garden

The amazing work that the Duchess of Northumbland has been doing at Alnwick Castle was featured in the September issue of 'House and Garden'. Humphries Weaving have worked closely with the Duchess in recreating the fabrics for several State and Private rooms through out the Castle.

The latest room to feature custom coloured silk fabric created by Humphries Weaving is the private dining room. Here silk damask panels are bordered with plain mitred silk to create a subtley different effect. The article also features the Crimson Drawing Room rehung in Humphries Weaving pure silk crimson and gold tissue.

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Lucy + Jorge Orta 70 x 7 The Meal act XXXIII

Smiths Row, Bury St. Edmunds

Focusing on particular regional characteristics of food production and heritage skills, landscape and foraging, wildlife and the web of nature, the artist Lucy Orta crafted an installation that illustrates the poetic relationship between these different aspects of East Anglian culture. Elements of the table setting were hand crafted especially for the occasion and Humphries Weaving were chosen to produce a limited edition silk jacquard table runner.

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Temple Newsam unveils the Angel Bed

7th December 2011

The State bed at Temple Newsam which has layed in tatters since 1981, has finally been restored to its former glory. The showy bed features the newly restored Angel Tester and the rich crimson hangings are draped with pure silk damask from the Humphries workshops. The design of the damask was taken from the original tester fabric which was also used for the documentary evidence for the colour match.

Further to the unveiling of the Angel Tester State bed, the bed itself was featured in 'Art Quarterly' magazine giving details of the restoration process and other works of art at Temple Newsam.

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Historic Houses Association Exhibition

15th November 2011

Humphries Weaving showcased their unique fabrics for the first time in a decade at the Historic Houses Association (HHA) annual exhibition and conference. The stand featured many of the companys more resent historic restoration fabrics, including fabrics that were featured on the sets of the Oscar winning film 'The Kings Speech' that was filmed on location at the Drapers Hall in the City of London.

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National Liberal Club interior restored

November 2011

Hundres of metres of a specially woven silk fabric have been newly woven for the refurbishment of the Smoking Room at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall, London. The fabric features a classic Italian design dating back to the late seventeenth century and was woven in a forest green to co-ordinate with the other features of the room.

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Who do you think you are?

Richard Humphries guest stars on the BBC "Who do you think you are?" with Len Goodman (Episode 9, Series 8)

Len Goodman discovers a family connection to silk weaving and sets out to solve the mystery of an ancestor's descent into poverty. Richard Humphries played a vital part in the programs direction, with his knowledge gathered over the years concerning the silk weaving in Spitalfields. Len visited Richard in his workshop studio where he was able to reveal Len's forefathers unfortunate dimise, as the silk industry deminished in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Dumfries House on Hidden Heritage

Humphries Weaving fabrics were highly featured during the BBC television program 'Hidden Heritage' which featured Dumfries House and the restoration of its interiors.

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Dumfries House Opens

After undertaking a major restoration, Dumfries House was opened to the public by HRH Prince of Wales on 6th May 2010.

The restoration featured Humphries Weaving fabrics in all the principle State Rooms. The design that was used in the White Drawing room, the Family Palour, and the State Bedroom, was redrawn from fragments discovered on the Chippendale furniture that had been originally commissioned for the house when first built. The Pink Dining room was the only room with surviving textile evidence and great care was taken to rematch the damask colour and tone to the historic trimmings which were retained and conserved from the original decoration.

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Official Wedding Portraits show Humphries Weaving fabric

The official wedding photographs for Prince William and Catherine Middleton were taken against a back drop of the Throne Room in Buckingham Palace. Humphries Weaving have woven silks for many of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace. The Throne Room features 400 metres of the companys handwoven fabric in a crimson silk to compliment the decoration of the Throne for the Head of State.

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Humphries Weaving at Prince William and Catherine Middletons Wedding

29th April 2011

Humphries Weaving Company undertook the complete restoration of the fabrics for the 1902 State Landaur which was used by the Royal couple to carry them from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace on their wedding day.

Crimson duchess satin in pure silk was used for the deep buttoned interior and decorated with crimson narrow and broad carriage lace in pure silk. The hood lining was made of dark crimson mercerised cotton, for durability. All fabrics were matched exxactly to the orignal fabrics from 1901, including the tufted buttons.

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Royal engagement photo showing Humphries Weaving fabric

Humphries Weaving has been involved in the decoration of many Royal Palaces over the last 40 years. The official engagement portrait of Prince William and Catherine Middleton was taken at St. James's Palace. The portrait features Humphries exquisit silks which were custom woven for restoration of the historic interior.

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Decorex 2010

Our focus at this years Decorex International was 'Befores and Afters' with us showcasing our unique skills in being able to take a clients ideas and fabrics, and turn them into custom designed and woven cloth. With examples of our histroical projects (including a World exclusive) as well as our more contemporary designs, the stand prooved to be very effective in showing the visitors how they can have the exact fabric they desire.

We have included some images of the stand incase you missed it.

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Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Greater London

September 2010 marked the opening of the newly renovated Strawberry Hill house in London. This exceptional example of Gothic revival which was owned and built by Horace Walpole, has been atruly amazing project to work with and grabbing the Worlds attention now that is has been unveiled.

Humphries Weaving have woven three historic reproductions for the house. The Round Room design was redrawn from The Vyne (National Trust) in Hampshire. The fabric represents a damask version of an earlier brocatelle wallcovering. The Great North Bedchamber features a ribbon and bow design which was popular at that time, and was chosen from the Humphries Archive. The crimson colour was carefully matched to documentary evidence found both at the house and other textile documents of the period. The final room was the Beauclerk closet; restored to a pale blue dress fabric document of the period from the Victoria and Albert Museum. Evidence revielled that the fabric of the dress was originally intended for furnishings and exported in the United States of America at the time of the house decoration.

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Attingham Park restored to its former Regency glory

Historic Taboret striped fabric woven in pure silk and linen was recreated at Humphries Weaving Company for the window drape restoration at Attingham park. House documentation revealed that the original striped moire was extremely rich and woven in a shocking crushed strawberry pink. Meticulour accuracy was applied by the restoration team at Humphries, to ensure an accurate reproduction of the satin stripe cloth. The moire finish was hand applied on the companies own machine which ensured a true organic watered finish.

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Did you miss us at Decorex?

This year's Decorex International seemed busier than ever, with lots of visitors coming to our stand to see our latest weave designs. Large traditional patterns, as well as small textured upholstery weights seemed to gather the most attention. Visitors were fascinated by the fact that they could custom colour the weaves on show. All in all the whole event was deemed a success, with the carefully coordinated colour palette of the stand being well received.

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World of Interiors

Alnwick Castle, Northumberia, is featured in this months World of Interiors showing the renovation of the State rooms. Humphries Weaving has had the great pleasure to supply the fabric for all 3 state rooms: The Saloon, The Dining Room, and the other one. At the time of this article, the Red and gold room is still being hung and so does not feature - though this shall be completed soon and open to the public

Issue date: October 2009

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Homes and Gardens

The Shopping page titled 'Subtle Texture' featured custom woven Diamond Carriage Cloth. This silk and cotton mix fabric is based on a historical carriage cloth found in Queen Victoria's carriage, currently on display at the National Railway Museum, Manchester.

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Issue date: October 2009

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New Website launched!

We hope you are enjoying our new website, which now includes more details of our services in woven textiles, as well as many other exciting features. More images have been added to show examples of the different qualities of cloth we are weaving today, along with a more detailed visual history of the company. Our projects page now features images of the custom fabric woven for the various prestigious interiors we have been involved with.

Come back to view our updates.

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Decorex September 2009

Humphries Weaving will be at Decorex International 09, staged at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. The stand will feature the latest ideas in contemporary woven textures along side traditional figured silks. This year we will be joined on the stand by custom trimmings manufacturer Trimmont.

Why not come by and see the fabrics in person at stand number J300(near the Sloane Square entrance).

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World of Interiors

The Inspiration page featured custom woven pure silk figured linings that replicated the original writing box interior, featured in the heirlooms article 'Stitches in time'.

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Issue date: June 2009

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Country Life

'The Lion of the North' article featured custom woven fabrics from Humphries Weaving, in the State Rooms of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. Custom fabric was dyed and woven to reproduce the original pure silk fabrics of the castle interiors.

Issue date: March 2009

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