Usually Romney wool is used for carpets or upholstery, but painstaking work – all done in and around Huddersfield – has seen the first apparel-quality cloth produced and marketed as Romney Tweed. The ...

Many of the words used in the English language for various kinds of cloth and fabric have fascinating Indian origins. Fabric production dates back to ancient civilisations, where early societies ...

The Duke of Sutherland, so Hardy Amies recalled, used to drive south from the Highlands in a brown Rolls-Royce upholstered with tweed, stopping en route to switch into his black, leather-upholstered, ...