a selection of the
mills & cloth houses
we work with.

A great suit starts with great cloth.


A beautifully tailored made-to-measure garment is only ever as good as the cloth from which it is cut. That is why we source our fabrics from some of the most respected mills and cloth houses in the UK and around the world, ensuring the foundation of every garment is exceptional.

We believe true luxury should be both accessible and wearable. That means offering cloths that not only look beautiful, but also perform brilliantly in everyday life. Whether you are looking for a robust British tweed for the weekend, a crisp worsted wool for business, or a rich velvet for evening wear, our collection brings together traditional craftsmanship, exceptional quality and modern style.

The mills and cloth houses we work with share our commitment to quality, heritage and uncompromising standards. Below, you can discover more about the names behind the fabrics we trust to help bring your wardrobe to life.

Bateman Ogden British Suiting Cloth

Bateman Ogden

Bradford, England.

Founded in Bradford in 1881, Bateman Ogden is one of Britain's long-established cloth merchants, with deep roots in the Yorkshire textile industry. Its history includes supplying cloth during both World Wars and a particular expertise in wool gabardine developed under the Garnett family. Today its collections span classic British suitings, jacketing, formalwear and luxury fibres, balancing traditional tailoring cloth with more contemporary designs. The Garnett collection, named in honour of former chairman Hugh Garnett, brings together luxurious wool, cashmere and silk qualities and reflects the house's long connection with exceptional cloth.

Reda 1865 Italian Merino Wool Cloth

Reda 1865

Biella, Italy

Reda has been producing fine wool cloth in Italy's Biella region since 1865. Known particularly for its work with Merino wool, Reda manages and supervises its production chain from fleece through to finished fabric, giving the mill unusually close control over quality and performance. Alongside beautifully refined traditional suitings, Reda has become known for innovation through ranges such as Reda Active, where natural Merino wool is engineered for stretch, thermoregulation, comfort and even machine washability. It is a particularly good example of an historic Italian mill combining classic tailoring with genuinely modern textile technology.

Vitale Barberis Canonico Suiting Cloth

Vitale Barberis Canonico

Biella, Italy

Vitale Barberis Canonico, often known simply as VBC, can trace its textile history in Biella back to 1663, making it one of the oldest names in the world of fine cloth. Still closely associated with classic Italian tailoring, VBC produces everything from dependable everyday worsteds and flannels to exceptionally fine luxury suitings. Its best-known cloths include Perennial, designed as a versatile tailoring staple, Solaro®, and Revenge, a beautifully refined Super 150's Merino wool woven with double-twisted yarns for resilience as well as softness. It is a house that proves heritage and practicality can sit very comfortably together.

Fox Brothers British Flannel

Fox Brothers

Somerset, England.

Fox Brothers has been weaving cloth in Somerset for more than 250 years and is a true icon of British textile manufacturing. The house is particularly associated with flannel and is widely credited with originating the fine woollen and worsted flannels that became staples of classic British menswear. Fox cloths have a distinctive character and handle, with beautifully substantial flannels, chalk stripes, checks and traditional jacketing sitting alongside lighter contemporary qualities. Its extraordinary archive stretches back generations and continues to inspire new collections today, making Fox Brothers an especially appealing choice when a garment calls for unmistakably British heritage and character.

Loro Piana Luxury Suiting Cloth

Loro Piana

Milan, Italy

Founded in Italy in 1924 from a family already steeped in the textile trade, Loro Piana has become synonymous with some of the world's most luxurious natural fibres. Its textile expertise spans exceptionally fine Merino wool, cashmere and rare fibres such as vicuña, with an obsessive focus on softness, handle and refinement. One of its most recognisable tailoring cloths is Tasmanian®, a fine wool prized for combining elegance with enough durability to make it practical for sophisticated suiting. Loro Piana is an excellent choice when the brief is understated luxury: cloth that may look beautifully simple from across the room but reveals its quality the moment you touch it.

Ermenegildo Zegna Italian Suiting Cloth

Ermenegildo Zegna

Trivero, Italy

Before Zegna became one of the world's best-known luxury menswear names, it was first and foremost a cloth maker. Ermenegildo Zegna founded his wool mill in Trivero, Piedmont, in 1910 with the ambition of producing exceptional Italian fabrics from the world's finest natural fibres. The mill remains central to the Zegna Group today and manages the process from raw material selection through weaving and finishing. Zegna has been particularly influential in developing men's cloths that are lighter, smoother and more refined while retaining performance and structure, combining traditional Italian craftsmanship with textile research and modern technology.

Egidio Ferla Italian Luxury Cloth

Egidio Ferla

Valdilana, Italy.

Egidio Ferla is a Biellese mill best known for cloth with exceptional texture, softness and personality. Established in Biella in the late nineteenth century, Ferla has developed a particularly strong reputation for its use of Baby Alpaca, obtained from the first shearing of Andean alpacas. The fibre gives many Ferla cloths their wonderfully soft, light and slightly luxurious handle. The house is also celebrated for textured jacketings, bouclé effects, subtle patterns and imaginative blends. Ferla is often the cloth we reach for when a client wants something noticeably special, particularly a jacket that feels relaxed and tactile rather than conventionally corporate.

William Bliss British Tweed

William Bliss

Somerset, England

William Bliss is a wonderful piece of English cloth history revived for a new generation. The name is rooted in the historic Chipping Norton woollen industry, with William Bliss's textile activities dating back to the early nineteenth century. Today its Cotswold Country Tweeds draw directly on archive designs from the old Chipping Norton mill, with the cloth woven in England by Fox Brothers. These are proper country tweeds with substance, texture and provenance, ideally suited to shooting jackets, country tailoring, outerwear and garments intended to become better with age. For us, William Bliss represents the slightly rugged, deeply British side of tailoring at its best.

Holland & Sherry Luxury Suiting Cloth

Holland & Sherry

Peebles, Scotland

Holland & Sherry was founded in London in 1836 by Stephen George Holland and Frederick Sherry and has supplied prestigious tailors and luxury houses ever since. From its historic links with London's tailoring trade to its operations in Peebles in the Scottish Borders, the house has built an extraordinary breadth of cloth. Its collections range from classic worsteds, tweeds and formalwear to cashmere, superfine wools and rare fibres including vicuña. Holland & Sherry is especially useful because its range is so broad: whether the brief calls for a robust British suit, an extravagant luxury cloth or something wonderfully individual, there is usually a Holland & Sherry bunch worth opening.

Dugdale Bros & Co British Suiting Cloth

Dugdale Bros & Co

Huddersfield, England.

Dugdale Bros & Co has been part of Huddersfield's famous cloth trade since 1896. Founded by Henry Percy and Frederick Herbert Dugdale, the house built its reputation supplying fine worsted fabrics to tailors in Britain and abroad and remains proudly independent. Dugdale is particularly strong when a garment calls for traditional British character, excellent tailoring performance and cloth made to be worn rather than merely admired. Historic collections include White Rose sporting tweeds, while the 1896 range celebrates the company's heritage. Its Huddersfield roots and focus on natural fibres make Dugdale a natural choice for classic suits, formalwear, country cloths and timeless British tailoring.

Huddersfield Fine Worsteds British Suiting Cloth

Huddersfield Fine Worsteds

Huddersfield, England.

Huddersfield Fine Worsteds brings together the character of traditional Yorkshire cloth with an unusually broad selection for modern tailoring. Based in the heart of West Yorkshire's textile country, the company produces and supplies fabrics used by bespoke tailors and international design houses. Its archive reaches back into some of Huddersfield's historic weaving heritage, while collections today range from sturdy classic worsteds to very fine luxury cloth. The Heritage collection recreates traditional gabardine, cavalry twill and barathea, while Genesis offers luxurious English-made Super 180's and Super 200's suitings. It is an excellent house for clients who appreciate proper British cloth with substance and pedigree.

Dormeuil Luxury Suiting Cloth

Dormeuil

Dewsbury, England & Paris France.

The House of Dormeuil dates back to 1842, when Jules Dormeuil began importing English cloth into France. Since then, the family has built a reputation for combining British weaving tradition with a distinctly French sense of luxury and innovation. Dormeuil has created some of tailoring's most famous branded cloths, including Sportex, Tonik® and Amadeus, and has repeatedly experimented with unusual fibres and finishing techniques. Tonik became particularly celebrated for its crisp mohair character, while Amadeus is known for combining comfort, drape and everyday performance. Dormeuil is a house for clients who enjoy heritage but also appreciate cloth with a little theatre and individuality.

Carnet Italian Suiting Cloth

Carnet

Como, Italy.

Carnet approaches tailoring cloth with a noticeably more playful Italian spirit. Part of the historic Ratti textile group, Carnet specialises in cloth for modern made-to-measure and offers thousands of fabrics across tailoring, jacketing, shirting and special occasion wear. Its connection to Ratti, a Como textile house founded in 1945 and renowned for printing, gives Carnet particular strength in colour, pattern and creative design. Alongside classic navy and grey suitings you will find bold jacketings, prints and unexpected combinations, making it a wonderful source when a client wants to move beyond the conventional without sacrificing Italian quality.

StylBiella Italian Suiting Cloth

Stylbiella

Biella, Italy

StylBiella comes from Biella, the historic heartland of Italian fine wool, and its collections have a distinctly contemporary Italian sensibility. The house works across suiting, jacketing and special-occasion cloth, with particular strength in fine wool, cashmere blends, colour and modern pattern. Rather than being defined by one famous traditional cloth, StylBiella is useful for the breadth and freshness of its collections, especially when we are looking for something a little less predictable than classic business suiting. It combines the refinement expected from the Biella textile tradition with a more fashion-conscious approach to colour, texture and seasonal design.

Drago Italian Suiting Cloth

Drago

Biella, Italy

Drago is a fully integrated Italian wool mill based in the Biella region. The company began in 1973 as a specialist spinning business before expanding into fabric production, giving it unusually deep expertise in the yarn itself as well as the finished cloth. Today Drago manages the journey from carefully selected raw materials through spinning, weaving and finishing at its facilities in Lessona and Verrone. It is particularly respected for fine and extra-fine worsteds with a smooth, elegant Italian handle. Drago cloth works beautifully where a client wants refinement, lightness and clean contemporary tailoring without losing the performance required from a proper suit.

Alfred Brown English Worsted Cloth

Alfred Brown

Leeds, England.

Alfred Brown has been weaving worsted cloth in Yorkshire since 1915 and remains a family-run English mill. The company began by producing cloth for the military, police and fire services before developing a major reputation for dependable worsteds for British tailoring and ready-made suits. Today, the fifth generation continues to weave in England, combining modern machinery with recognisably British design and performance. Alfred Brown cloth tends to be wonderfully practical: clean worsteds, traditional patterns and fabrics with enough body to tailor beautifully and wear well. It is exactly the kind of mill that demonstrates why British cloth has such an enduring reputation for structure, longevity and understated style.

Scabal Luxury Suiting Cloth

Scabal

Huddersfield, England

Founded in Brussels in 1938 by Otto Hertz, Scabal has grown into one of the most recognisable names in luxury cloth, with a long-standing home at 12 Savile Row and its own mill in Huddersfield. Scabal is notable not only for the quality of its traditional suitings but for an extraordinary appetite for innovation. It pioneered extremely fine Super wools and has even incorporated materials such as diamonds, gold and platinum into cloth. Famous collections include Summit, Diamond Chip and its Noble Wool Club fabrics. Scabal is particularly appealing for clients looking for something genuinely luxurious, technically ambitious or simply a little extraordinary.

Harris Tweed Outer Hebrides Cloth

Harris Tweed Authority

Isle of Harris, Scotland

Harris Tweed® is unlike almost any other cloth we offer because its identity is protected by law. Genuine Harris Tweed must be made from pure new wool that is dyed and spun in the Outer Hebrides and handwoven by islanders at their homes. Every genuine length is inspected and authenticated with the famous Orb certification mark under the protection of the Harris Tweed Authority and the Harris Tweed Act 1993. The result is a cloth with unmistakable texture, depth of colour and character. Hardy, warm and beautifully individual, Harris Tweed is perfect for jackets, coats and country tailoring that should look even better after years of wear.

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