Gainsborough Silk textile mill & archive
Gainsborough Silk
Craft, collaboration & innovation
An unexceptional long low brick and corrugated tin building on an industrial estate in Sudbury, Suffolk, houses the remarkable Gainsborough mill, making and documenting fine bespoke fabrics for over one hundred years.
The day job is weaving silk, linen, and wool to custom short-run designs for Queen Elizabeth, Giles Deacon, anyone in fact, on both the latest digital machines and the extraordinarily beautiful and complex original looms. And behind the scenes they maintain their archive of pattern books and correspondence documenting the rich history of craftsmanship, collaboration and change.
