Makers - Jersey maker, Leicestershire

Where to start with a thing like jersey? Best, surely, to do what they do in a traditional Victorian jersey factory. Start at the bottom and work upwards. Through three floors, from the knitting in the basement, cutting and sewing in the middle, and, if you wish, packing and dispatch at the top.

Where jersey really begins, then, is down in the basement, and down in the basement today it is very cold. In winter, even when there isn’t a foot of snow outside, it takes the first half of the week to properly warm up. It is, all told, austere, with shadow and echo, and with row on row of RTR Bentleys — circular-knitting workhorse of choice in this part of the country — arranged sentry-like, ready to go at nine o’clock this Monday morning.

Workshop

The workshop was built over a century ago, and for the past decade or more has served competently and compactly as company headquarters. Garments aren’t made here, of course — that’s the purview now of makers across the British Isles — but it is quite handy for the development of them.

S.E.H Kelly
1 Cleve Workshops, Boundary Street, London E2 7JD.

020 3397 0449

Not open very much at all, these days, the workshop. Still, look out for the first workshop in the row, and if the lights are on, step on inside why not.

Contact

Please email info@sehkelly.com day or night, or fill out this form.

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