A little history lesson on the Lancashire cotton mills and a great video made by the British council in 1941 Did you know that Britain used to be the biggest cotton cloth producer in the world? The mechanised spinning and […]
Are you wearing a tie made in Italy – or even China? Shame on you! You could wear a different tie made in England every day of the week if you pick them from one of these beauties Monday – Duchamp
Think that there is no manufacturing left in the fashion & textiles industry in Britain? Here are a few facts and figures that prove otherwise OK, so we don’t make anywhere near as much in the UK as we used
How to take the pain out of sampling with a British clothing manufacturer in 8 easy steps I get a lot of designers contacting me asking for recommendations for British manufacturers that can make their products. Some of them are
Call for more fashion & textiles companies to stand up and be counted in nationwide search for innovation A while back I was invited to the launch of the Government’s Make it in Great Britain campaign and at the time I felt
Mary Portas launches Kinky Knickers made in her British factory – and they’re not pants at all (If you are looking for stockists of Kinky Knickers see the bottom of this page) I must admit that when I reported back
How Skillset is helping companies to place new recruits in the fashion & textiles sector The amount of skilled craftsman left in the clothing and textiles industry is one of the main concerns of many of the British brands and
Sir Alan Sugar is the latest high profile figure to call for more to be done to support British manufacturing. In his address to the House of Lords on the 8th December, Sir Alan Sugar, the business mogul best known
Last week I had the good fortune to be invited to Somerset to meet Deborah Meaden, best known for her appearances on TV show Dragon’s Den, and to hear all about how she is supporting a revival of the British
Are you a clothing or accessories designer who works with UK manufacturers? Are you looking for a UK factory to make your products? Are you a UK manufacturer who makes clothing or accessories in the UK? If so, Make it
Last week’s Made in Britain debate with the MD of Brompton Bikes got us thinking about cycling and the accoutrements that go with it. Can you kit out both yourself and your bicycle only with British-made products? You most certainly
The British weather – we are all obsessed about it, so no wonder we have always been so good at making rainwear. In fact, there are still a lot of manufacturers making great British outerwear. Here are five of those
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English Shoes? Yes, there are some that are still made in Britain When I read that the British shoe company Clarks were thinking of bringing their manufacturing back to Britain, having made their last pair of shoes in the UK in
Further to my post a while back with some interesting UK manufacturing statistics , I now have some more great findings* kindly given to me by Stoves, who still manufacture cookers in the UK from their Merseyside headquarters. Their survey
As I mentioned in one of my first posts, we are trying to find a handbag factory in the UK that we can work with to develop our new British handbag brand. A few phone calls to some of the
An article in this weeks Sunday Times, entitled ‘Made in Britain is so much sweeter’, has some interesting statistics on UK manufacturing. Apparently manufacturing accounts for only 11% of gross domestic product today, compared to 22% 20 years ago. There
Where to start to find handbag factories in the UK? A cursory glance reveals around a dozen potential manufacturers of bags in Britain, but my previous experience tells me that not all factories are made equal. The type of bag
…and what will happen when it no longer becomes cost effective to source from the Far East? These are a couple of the questions that I have been asking myself over the last few years. Having worked in fashion design
