London College of Fashion Bespoke Tailoring x Hainsworth 2022/23: Jacquard Weaving
“This year we were delighted to partner with luxury British textile manufacturer AW Hainsworth & Sons who collaborated with three of our final year students, to weave and finish a bespoke length of Fine Merino Double cloth to the students’ individual jacquard designs, which they have incorporated into their collections.” Daniel Poulson, BA (Hons) Bespoke […]
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Woven in History: Celebrating 240 Years of AW Hainsworth
Our family-run heritage textile mill, established in 1783, is celebrating its’ 240th business anniversary. AW Hainsworth is the parent company to Hainsworth Fabric of a Nation, as well as several other brands; Hainsworth Protective Fabrics, Hainsworth Toptable, Natural Legacy by Hainsworth, John Atkinson, Hainsworth Technical Felt, Northern Rubber by Hainsworth, and Replin by Hainsworth. Read […]
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Hainsworth X MMUFDT: Slow Fashion – 2022/23 Live Brief Competition
“Slow fashion is about designing, producing, consuming, and living better. Slow fashion is not time-based but quality-based (which has some time components). Slow is not the opposite of fast – there is no dualism – but a different approach in which designers, buyers, retailers, and consumers are more aware of the impacts of products on […]
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AW Hainsworth cloth is used to produce The Anointing Screen for His Majesty King Charles III’s Coronation
An Anointing Screen made primarily from AW Hainsworth cloth, has been designed and produced for use at the most sacred moment of the Coronation, the Anointing of His Majesty The King. The screen combines traditional and contemporary sustainable embroidery practices to produce a design which speaks to His Majesty The King’s deep affection for the […]
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AW Hainsworth to feature in BBC documentary ‘Coronation Tailors: Fit for a King’
Military tailors Kashket & Partners are the subject of a new BBC documentary about the preparations for the Coronation of King Charles III, also featuring AW Hainsworth. ‘Coronation Tailors: Fit for a King’ documents the extraordinary effort taken by the Kashket team to stitch thousands of bespoke uniforms ahead of the Royal Guards’ procession on […]
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Celebrating The King’s Coronation with Sustainable Wool Bunting on Savile Row
To mark the Coronation of King Charles III, The Campaign for Wool has teamed up with Savile Row Bespoke tailors to decorate the streets with a mile of wool bunting. The neighbourhoods of Savile Row, Clifford Street, Old Burlington Street, and part of St James’s have been adorned with red, white, and blue bunting made […]
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Hainsworth X UCA Rochester Fashion Design: Creative Collaboration
Iconic textile manufactures AW Hainsworth have partnered with UCA Rochester for their latest live brief, challenging second year Fashion Design students to create a hypothetical brand with sustainability at its heart, including a capsule collection of garments which demonstrates and celebrates this ethos. The project formed part of the university’s Creative Collaboration module, in which […]
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Pride, Pomp and Pageantry: Hainsworth’s Role in the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
This weekend the country will come together to mark a moment in history, as Her Majesty The Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. The celebrations begin on Thursday 2nd June with Trooping the Colour, when over 1400 soldiers, 200 horses and 400 musicians march together […]
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