Sharing the websites that we love to read about products made in Britain – the first of these is the Harris Tweed Authority blog What’s it all about? Harris Tweed is a fabric dyed and spun in the Scottish Outer […]
Designer supports British manufacturers with a map depicting location of British suppliers Margaret Howell has produced a stunning map, currently displayed in the window of eponymous London store, showing all of the British manufacturers that the company uses.
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
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
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
