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Rope-dyed indigo, pt. 2
The start of January finds the one-man-mill picking up where he left off: indigo warp newly wound and on the loom, weft ready for weaving. As first introduced the other... Mehr lesen …
Spinning plates
The long and short of all is this is developing garments, making garments, and selling garments. Those are the three plates to spin. One plate spinning on its own is... Mehr lesen …
Off the beaten track
To make in the British Isles is to make with limits. But the limits aren’t as awful as they’re made out to be. Nor are they terribly limiting. But they... Mehr lesen …
Rope-dyed indigo, pt. 1
That didn't take long. No sooner was the wool-tweed Space Invader wound, woven, and made into peacoats, then work begins again on the centuries-old contraptions of the one-man-mill in north-east... Mehr lesen …
London weaving, pt. 4
That's it. Dozens of Hebridean, Black Welsh Mountain, and Jacobs sheep shorn; tens of thousands of metres of their yarn spun and wound; tens of metres of bespoke made-in-London cloth... Mehr lesen …
High-ply and hand-framed
To get ahead in the knitwear game, it probably helps to do things different from the next knitter. Keep it up, do it very well, and you might make a... Mehr lesen …
Herringbone plus barleycorn
It is often though not always true that the more charismatic the cloth, the more introverted the garment made from it. It is certainly the case with the new seam... Mehr lesen …
London weaving, pt. 3
Whoosh and click goes the loom. Back and forth goes the shuttle. Hour on hour, day after day, the one-man-mill weaves away. Hand-weaving demands concentration at the best of times... Mehr lesen …
Two for one
There are no sales here. Not a scribbled red marker or stock-clearance-effort-disguised-as-something-else in sight. The value of a garment — what goes into its make and constituent parts — is... Mehr lesen …
London weaving, pt. 2
The story so far is the story of trying to make cloth from the yarn of heritage breeds of British sheep, with one man and his mill in London. Some... Mehr lesen …
Tuck-stitch knitwear
The hearty whiff of fresh lanolin about the place can mean only one thing. The knitwear has landed. Two jumpers — crew-neck and shawl-neck — to be exact. And not... Mehr lesen …
When wales run widthways
Has a reputation, for better or for worse, of being the cloth of the thinking man does corduroy. "The staple fabric for those who deal with the brain" as someone... Mehr lesen …