Supporting British Textiles

Did you know all our jackets are made using Linton Tweed.  I think it is so important to support British Textiles, if you feel the same read on, it is a fascinating insight into how these beautiful fabrics are made.

Linton Tweeds for more than 100 years have been producing fabrics of the highest quality for fashion houses around the world. All of these fabrics are still designed and woven on site at our mill on Shaddongate, Carlisle – just as when we were first founded by William Linton in 1912. Our Linton Tweeds brand works with fashion houses in London, Milan and New York, in markets across Europe, North America and Asia, and with luxury brands such as Burberry and Chanel – who we’ve worked alongside ever since William Linton was introduced to Coco Chanel way back in 1924.

Running 16 hours a day, our 14 looms create elaborate, beautiful tweed using a variety of techniques and yarns. A third of each cloth produced at the mill is made from the 100% wool yarn twisted on site, but the other two thirds can be made up of any yarn of our and our partners’ choosing, meaning we can create highly unique, highly complex fabrics and patterns. A standard Linton tweed might comprise eight different types of yarn – whether that’s wool, silk, velvet ribbon, eyelash, lurex or anything else. We like to push the limits of what a tweed can be, and this is part of the reason that designer brands like to work with us.

Since 2010, we’ve been selling our high-quality fabrics as part of our Linton Direct range to the public. While these aren’t the made-to-measure bespoke designs that we provide to our partners in the fashion industry, the fabrics are the same high-quality Linton Tweeds that would be used by designer brands in their collections.