by Rian Taylor | Feb 28, 2017 | Bespoke Matters
WOOL FABRICS & WOOL WEAVES FABRIC GLOSSARY Beaver cloth is a heavy woollen overcoating, napped and pressed down to resemble beaver fur. Botany/Merino wool is a fine wool fabric made from worsted wool yarn. Broadcloth is an all woolen or worsted fabric with a...
by Rian Taylor | Feb 28, 2017 | Bespoke Matters
A LITERAL UNDERSTANDING SUITING CLOTH Suiting Cloths A comprehensive understanding about Suiting Fabrics and Cloths is vital to any sales back story. You need to be able to match colours to people – helping them to create more effective looks. Suit fabric really does...
by Rian Taylor | Feb 28, 2017 | Bespoke Matters
Bespoke Matters A HISTORY OF TAILORS The knowledge and art of tailoring, of cutting and sewing cloth, actually creating clothes from a bespoke pattern, developed slowly and progressively in Europe between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries AD. The earliest Oxford...
by Rian Taylor | Feb 28, 2017 | Bespoke Matters
A BRIEF SUMMARY HISTORY OF CLOTH IN HUDDERSFIELD The West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield is situated at the convergence of the rivers Colne and Holme. Inhabitants of these river valleys discovered that the water – which flows from the Millstone Grit Pennine hills –...
