How to Start
1. Contact Us: Complete our online contact form or call our team directly.
2. We will organise the best way to discuss your project.
- A visit our Suffolk showroom - we would love to host a private brunch or lunch in our showroom space
- We'll bring our showroom to you
- Consultation via Zoom
3. What to Prepare Share details that will help us understand your project:
- Project type and end-use
- Estimated quantity
- Sensitivity around lead times
- Mood board or design inspiration
- Specific requirements or constraints
Don't worry if you can't provide everything – our team of experts will guide you through the decision-making process. We're here to transform your textile vision into reality.
Whether you're an architect, interior designer, museum curator, contractor or artist, we're ready to listen and create something extraordinary.
Your Design
Your design journey transforms inspiration into textile reality. We're flexible and comprehensive, working with whatever sparks your creativity.
Design Starting Points: Your mood board, Personal artwork, Antique textile documents, Digital images, Our extensive historical archive
We are fortunate to have a wonderful archive of designs textiles to draw from spanning centuries of textile heritage. If you are looking for a particular historic period or design style, we can offer appropriate designs.
Bespoke Design:
- Adjust scales to suit your space
- Personalise designs (initials, coat of arms, specific motifs)
- Modify fabric weight and handle
- Explore design elements & personalise
Our team will convert your concept into specialist weave programs, applying intricate woven structures. We'll guide you on:
- Fabric quality
- Weave constructions
- Material compositions (silk, cotton, wool, viscose, flax)
- Fabric finishes such as Moire
Once we've refined your design, we'll provide a guide price.
Your vision, our expertise – creating bespoke textiles that tell a story.
Historic Recreation
We create sensitively recreated fabrics with exacting and methodical precision. Underpinned by deep historical knowledge, our team offers comprehensive research and consultation. We understand the critical importance of recreating textiles that are as close to the original as possible.
Our unique approach sets us apart:
- Unparalleled flexibility in meeting client needs
- Budget-sensitive options and collaboration with our stock options to maximise authenticity
- On-site dye team specialising in historic colour reproduction
We are dedicated custodians of textile heritage, committed to bringing historical fabrics back to life.
Our Historic Recreation Process:
- Consultation We begin with a comprehensive fabric review. Our team can visit your location to document and examine textile artefacts. We'll create a detailed fabric report, leveraging our extensive archive of colours and designs. Often, we can find a matching design within our archives. Based on our findings, we'll recommend the most suitable approach to meet your specific needs.
- Design Authenticity We pride ourselves on maintaining traditional techniques. Our team still hand-draw textiles during the recreation process, ensuring meticulous attention to detail and historical accuracy.
- Colour Reproduction Our skilled colourists scientifically develop precise shades:
- Careful shade selection by your account manager
- Bobbin Trial: A woven sample to verify colour and weave placement
- Scientific colour matching for accurate reproduction
- Full-Scale Design We create a full-width, to-scale woven design for your final approval.
- Production What we call the 'recipe' - your final production order combines the bobbin trial and full-width design. The result is a beautiful, bespoke design that remains true to the original historic document.
Bespoke Colour
At the heart of every remarkable textile lies its colour. From recreating historic hues to matching precise shades across wallpapers, paints, and textiles, we transform your vision into a tangible, vibrant reality.
Our on-site dye lab and colour specialists ensure perfect colour accuracy. We understand how important and subtle colour is, weave construction and yarns used has a huge impact on how colour is read. Let our expertise help provide the perfect colour for your project from:
- Historical textile fragments
- Paint or wallpaper samples
- Pantone references
- Our extensive archive of historical colours
Stock Colours
Our carefully curated stock range features hundreds of shades that span both historical periods and contemporary design. We have many wonderful colours and we can create bespoke colourways for you. This readily available selection offers both time and cost advantages while maintaining our exacting standards.
We work closely with heritage organisations like the National Trust and private clients alike, developing unique dye recipes that capture exactly the right shade. This specialist service often complements our research and consultancy work, particularly when recreating historical interiors where colour accuracy is paramount.
Sampling
Seeing and feeling your fabric for the first time is one of the most exciting moments in the design journey. Our sampling process combines technical precision with creative exploration, ensuring every detail is perfect before production begins on our specialist section looms.
We'll provide:
- Digital mock-ups or PDFs for initial approval
- Woven samples on our section warps for colour placement, weave construction & handle ensuring it is suitable for use.
This stage allows you to see and feel the fabric, ensuring the fabric meets your expectations before moving to production.
Each project includes a carefully planned sampling stage where we explore colours, textures, and technical specifications. Whether we're perfecting a contemporary design or validating historical authenticity, our process is thorough yet efficient.
Production
After confirming order length, design, colour, and quality, we'll begin production:
- Stock colour projects: 4-6 weeks lead time subject to yarn availability
- Custom colour projects: 8-12 weeks lead time subject to yarn availability
Your bespoke fabric can be sent directly to various destinations, such as:
- Upholsterers & Fabric Wallers
- Design studios
- Historic Properties
- Art Galleries or Museums
- Private residences
Finishing, Inspection & Despatch
In Development, we will discuss if your fabric requires finishing or if you are creating Moire fabric, this is the point where finishing is completed. We are the only mill in the UK that can produce this unique and uncontrolled watermark, creating beautiful moire.
Every piece is carefully inspected to ensure the highest quality before shipping to your desired location.
