New ordering tools for makers
To support the growing number of small makers buying counts direct from the mill, we have rebuilt the ordering desk around shade lots, minimums and the dye-run calen…
Categories: Products
The weaving workforce in 2024
Apprenticeships in weaving have grown for a fourth year running, and for the first time more than a third of new entrants come from outside the…
Introducing contract cloth built for hard-wear interiors
Contract buyers ask two things of a cloth: that it holds its face after 60,000 rubs and that it can be replaced in a decade. Our new range was woven for…
Categories: Company
How we vet a mill partner
Every partner mill is walked twice before a single cone ships. Our sourcing team looks at effluent handling, wage records and the state of th…
Categories: Mill updates
Skeinbridge settles a five-year dispute over loom patents
This week we closed a long-running claim over shedding-mechanism patents, and the terms leave both parties free to keep buil…
Categories: Company
An update on the finishing plant
The finishing plant returns to a four-shift pattern from 1 July, ending the reduced hours we introduced last autumn while the new stenter was fit…