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Cleve Workshops: 83 days later
First in a row of 16 workers’ studios designed by the nominatively brilliant Reginald Minton Taylor in 1895, and listed a century later, 1 Cleve Workshops has probably seen better... Leer más...
Consider the linen suit, pt. 1
The linen suit. The linen. Suit. Few get-ups have a reputation more stained than the linen suit. This is an unfortunate thing, but not an entirely undue one. Some stains,... Leer más...
Cord-inated efforts
The heralded arrival of the cord tour jacket last week somehow meant two other cord garments — also of the 11-wales-per-inch variety, but cut and sewn to bedeck bottoms halves... Leer más...
The tour jacket, mk. II
The tour jacket. Made for spring-time touring. Or perhaps not. But it is made for being out and about: the sort of thing that tends to happen in spring. Has... Leer más...
Wax and wool-cashmere mac
The dry-waxed mac takes the weather-proof properties of the Manchester-made cloth from which it takes its name, and marries them with a bespoke wool-cashmere from West Yorkshire — providing a... Leer más...
Moving images from West Yorkshire
"Spend time in a tailor-grade mill and you can see how much care goes into every meter of high-quality cloth," says the man. Listen to the man. Visits to makers... Leer más...
Export strength
Button-hole machine repairers. Tricky to find, mid-morning on New Year's Day. This is one of many lessons learned in making for Japan over the past six weeks a sort of... Leer más...
Four walls and a lid
Coming soon: premises. Proper, actual, bricks and mortar premises. The workshop. And there's no getting around the fact: it most definitely is a workshop. No shop-in-disguise, this; it's a place... Leer más...
Some meritable mohair making
The newest makers write-up returns to the Heavy Woollen District of West Yorkshire. But a brisk walk from the cashmere mill visited in the spring is the mohair maker: a... Leer más...
From the Heavy Woollen District, pt. 2
Now in Makers: the second serving of a behind-scenes look at West Yorkshire’s — if not England’s — oldest and finest cashmere maker. Cloths made by the mill are used... Leer más...
The made-in-Donegal cardigan
Offers little in terms of details, trims, or stitches, the minimal cardigan. Nothing much by way of knit-flippery at all, in fact. But, made as it is from the textural... Leer más...
Bashed-about wool-cashmere blazer
Had a hard life, the birdseye wool-cashmere of the three-button blazer. Before it's left the mill, it's been scrubbed, scoured, and, in the mill's own words, "bashed about a bit."... Leer más...