Historic Houses Association Event 2015 Humphries Weaving are pleased to be exhibiting, alongside Heritage Trimmings, at the Historic Houses Association annual Historic Buildings, Parks and Gardens Event 2015. The event takes place on Tuesday 17th November 2015 at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference
Making it in Textiles 2015 conference. After the success of last years inaugural event, Richard Humphries will again be speaking at the Making it in Textiles conference 2015. Organised by the Clothworkers’ Company, the Worshipful Company of Weavers and the Campaign for Wool, 130 final year tex
The Watermark of Quality – the art of Moiré in Silk Fabrics There have been many rather brash flock stripe wallpapers and mock effects created to imitate this technique but none come close to the subtle beauty of true moiré. The word moiré is French (taken from moirer, meaning to water) and wa
The foundations of making woven fabric structure have been set for thousands of years. The basic principle is that there must be two sets of threads to interlace and create the structure. The warp threads (called ends) run down the length of the cloth, with the weft threads (picks) being inserte
