The Gainsborough Silk Weaving Co Ltd

The Gainsborough Silk Weaving Co Ltd Gainsborough Fine Weavers & Dye House embodies over a century of British craftsmanship, with all des We received the Royal Warrant from HM The Queen in 1980.

Founded in 1903, Gainsborough Fine Weavers & Dye House embodies over a century of British craftsmanship. The entire production process – from design, to hand-dyeing yarns, to weaving the finished fabrics – takes place on the site we have occupied since 1924. Alongside our own collections, Gainsborough has long been the textile house for any interior designer seeking beautiful bespoke fabrics, from

contemporary, geometric styles to the richest of damasks and pearl-embroidered silks, and our willingness to support creative craftspeople in their endeavours remains a cornerstone of our offering.

: we have a green machine and it’s all looking good with only (heaven help us!) one more week to go!
12/09/2016

: we have a green machine and it’s all looking good with only (heaven help us!) one more week to go!

:Name: Mo HarmanPosition: Lady of yarn - Mo winds all the pirns for the Hattersley looms and operates the hank winding ...
12/09/2016

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Name: Mo Harman
Position: Lady of yarn - Mo winds all the pirns for the Hattersley looms and operates the hank winding and twister machine. 'The twister' can combine multiple yarns together to create a 'special' yarn.
Number of Years at Gainsborough: 30
Favourite fabrics: 'posh' 2263 with it's elegant design and tasteful colouring in 100% silk... only the best will do and this version has been embellished with seed pearls and gold thread.
Fun Fact: When Mo isn't admiring our lovely flowers in 2263, she's in her own garden, watching her husband do the hard work and enjoying the colourful fairy lights.

: 2794/ Cranes is by popular consent, one of the most beautiful brocades we have in our repertoire.
12/09/2016

: 2794/ Cranes is by popular consent, one of the most beautiful brocades we have in our repertoire.

: one of my personal favourites to commemorate this week of pattern is design 872 - Piano Keys - designed in 1978 and w...
12/09/2016

: one of my personal favourites to commemorate this week of pattern is design 872 - Piano Keys - designed in 1978 and woven on our Hattersley Looms. This design made up part of our core collection for many years with its structured simplicity and Art Deco feel.

: our founder-Reginald- was a bit of a photography enthusiast. We have these wonderful photographic glass-plates of our...
12/09/2016

: our founder-Reginald- was a bit of a photography enthusiast. We have these wonderful photographic glass-plates of our signature damasks - pattern in .

12/09/2016

The Bombyx mandarina is not an explosive orange, but the larva at the origin of silk-weaving — the name being the Latin taxonomy of the wild silkworm. Five thousand years ago, the Chinese bred a domesticated variant — the Bombyx mori — which was

: Pattern is 'fed' into our Hattersley Jacquard looms via a specially designed set of punch cards. As the cards rotate ...
08/09/2016

: Pattern is 'fed' into our Hattersley Jacquard looms via a specially designed set of punch cards. As the cards rotate and the warp threads lift or drop, beautiful Gainsborough designs emerge. We think the punch cards, with their coded patterns, make for a lovely design in their own right

The design process has become slightly easier for us modern designers with CAD, but no less involved. We can now produce...
08/09/2016

The design process has become slightly easier for us modern designers with CAD, but no less involved. We can now produce simulations to predict how the fabric design will weave, before taking it to the loom.

08/09/2016

Missoni – colour, placement and composition: This year The Fashion and Textile Museum hosted a spectacular prism of colour in pattern, and for those of you who missed it, here is our take on the one...

: What better way to introduce our week of pattern than with the pattern Master himself - William Morris's Artichoke, b...
08/09/2016

: What better way to introduce our week of pattern than with the pattern Master himself - William Morris's Artichoke, but in fabric form.

: Continuing from yesterday, step 2 of the Designer's process would involve translating the painted artwork onto daft p...
08/09/2016

: Continuing from yesterday, step 2 of the Designer's process would involve translating the painted artwork onto daft paper... by hand! For every painted artwork, we have a corresponding hand-painted draft and woven fabric design... not that this draft matches yesterdays artwork - we have gone from traditional English, to positively tropical!

: The Gainsborough Designer's historically had their work cut out for them. The process of getting a pattern onto fabri...
08/09/2016

: The Gainsborough Designer's historically had their work cut out for them. The process of getting a pattern onto fabric, started with a hand-painted artwork. We have a whole archive of these wonderful and carefully hand-painted designs.

Address

Alexandra Road, Sudbury
Suffolk
CO102XH

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+441787372081

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