The dry-waxed mac marries the weather-proof properties of British Millerain with a bespoke wool-cashmere from West Yorkshire.
The finest mohair mill in the country, doing what it does — on video.
Fifteen “high summer” garments put together and shipped to Japan in six short weeks over Christmas and New Year.
Coming soon: a workshop on Boundary St. in London. As its name implies, part of it is for work and part of it is shop.
The newest makers write-up returns to West Yorkshire, and a place at the top table of domestic manufacturing.
Had a hard but character-building upbringing, the birdseye wool-cashmere cloth of the three-button blazer.
Offers little in terms of details, trims, or stitches, the Donegal minimal cardigan, but nor does it much need them.
Makes for deceptively steadying knitwear, the moss stitch — the all-new button-up crewneck cardigan, for instance.
The chalk-stripe woollen seam overshirt: the first fruits of partnership with a mohair mill in West Yorkshire.
The neat jacket might be a simple-looking garment, but below its surface are one or two autumn-aiding peculiarities.
The second serving of a behind-scenes look at West Yorkshire’s — if not the country’s — oldest and finest cashmere maker.
Flecked wool-cashmere and ten-wale cord on the outside, warm wool-melton inside, and winter-proof quilting between.
Some soft but steadying Yorkshire-spun lambswool and three fit-for-purpose stitches make up the Nottinghamshire-made three-stitch rollneck jumper.
Production: back on track. The first bunch of autumn-ready garments are off the line at a new London factory.
Take a penny collar, neaten it up, then add a tab to brings its points together — do that and you get a Kelly collar.
First of a two-parter. Words and pictures from a world-beating mill in West Yorkshire in the north of England.
Two sturdy cotton-panama overshirts, with large pocketing, at the light-jacket end of the overshirt continuum.
Cumbria-made cotton pinpoint shirts: expertly woven, satisfyingly crisp, and disciplined with a good wash.
A four-button jacket, made from crisp, comfortable cotton-drill, and intended to be worn in two different ways.
Horn buttons makers in the British Isles weren’t always so tricky to come by, but now, for one well-trod reason or another, this is only one.
Not the most prepossessing of places, the workroom, but a textbook example of the sort of place that the trade really would be lost without.
Shirts made from an organic linen, sourced from a mill between the Pennines and the Calder in West Yorkshire.
Short, three-buttoned and step-collared, the blazer — and a welcome return to lightweight Lancastrian corduroy.
The pockets of mills in south-east Gloucestershire are a prolific source of good wools — not least the charcoal wool-cashmere used for shirting this winter.
Grey and navy moss-stitch crewnecks for Book No. 1, knitted by a family-run mill in Nottingham in numbers that are comfortably counted on one hand.
Occupying wardrobe middle-ground, the turned-down collar overshirt is available for Autumn and Winter 2010 in slate grey and mustard cotton-twill.
The first work jacket of the season is nothing if not winter-proof, constructed as it is from the most stouthearted cotton-twill the north-west has to offer.
With summer steadily drawing to a close, and the crisp days of early autumn imminent, the first group of new season garments have arrived.
With five generations of experience, our supplier of horn buttons — one of the last few in England — knows a thing or two about making them.
Where would Preface be without a few good bloggers? Still in the stockroom, most likely.
“Always a pleasure, never a chore” goes our new printer’s byline.
Preface is a small set of garments for summer 2010. It has been put together with mills and co-operatives from Lancashire to Cumbria, and from the Midlands to London.
It is no slight pleasure to announce that S.E.H Kelly is now up and running and online.