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100 posts. One mission: documenting British craft as living practice.
2025: Milan Fashion Week. Vogue Business. Makers who trusted us with their stories.
2026 is when discovery becomes infrastructure.
Craft Preserved. Culture Elevated.

#2025wrapped #britishcraft #heritagecraft

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To make tapa, the inner bark of the paper mulberry tree is stripped, soaked in water for days until the fibres soften, then beaten with a grooved wooden mallet on a wooden anvil.

The repeated impact bonds the fibres together through compression alone.

#midlandtrenduk #tapacloth

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In Tonga, patterned wooden rubbing blocks are placed beneath the cloth. Two makers sit across from each other, rubbing pigment across the surface. The pattern transfers from the carved block below. #tapacloth

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Beeswax is not a fashion material. It is a natural substance produced by honeybees to build their honeycombs.
Solid at room temperature.When it cools, it holds its form permanently.
That permanence is what makes it a craft material.And one of the oldest in human history. #beeswax

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The most important tool in hat-making is never worn, never seen, and never credited.

The block.

Every curve a hat holds. Every proportion. Every line. Decided in wood before felt was ever cut.

Craft begins before the maker most people recognise. #blockmaking #hatmaking

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Every craft has a root most people never reach.
In millinery it’s the block.
In weaving it’s the warp.
In tailoring it’s the canvas.
The finish gets the attention. The foundation does the work.
We document the foundation. #blockmaking

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Block making is woodworking with tolerance measured in fractions.
Felt stretched over a block under steam takes the exact shape it is given. Permanently.
There is no correction after. No adjustment. No second chance. The block maker has to be right before the milliner begins.

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A hat doesn’t begin with felt. It begins with wood.
Gouge. Wastringue. Files. Rasps. The block maker carves the form that felt will remember permanently under steam.
The milliner never touches the most important tool in the process.
@maisonmichel
#midlandtrenduk #blockmaking

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One thread. One decision.
Each cone feeds at precise tension. Too loose and the weave buckles. Too tight and the thread breaks. The machinery doesn’t make this call. The weaver does.

@melintregwynt #midlandtrenduk #welshweaving

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Colour doesn’t arrive in Welsh wool. It has to be decided before a single thread moves.
This is the creel. Every cone placed in deliberate sequence. Red into amber. Amber into rust. The pattern lives here first, in the hands, before the loom begins.

@melintregwynt #welshweaving

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British craft heritage lives in workshops where hands still practice what institutions stopped teaching decades ago.
We document the makers luxury depends on but rarely credits.
Craft Preserved. Culture Elevated.

#midlandtrenduk #britishheritage #artisancraft

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The future of British fashion isn’t in factories. It’s in the hands that refuse to rush.

#midlandtrenduk #fashion

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True bespoke isn't "made-to-measure" from preset patterns.

Every pair starts with individual measurements, hand-drafted patterns, cavalry twill cut with tailor's shears. Not sized. Engineered.

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INTERWOVEN: When a painter's brush meets Savile Row scissors, fabric becomes canvas.

Eleanor Ekserdjian's fabric painting meets Ruby Slevin's bespoke tailoring.

A thread on craft as collaboration e.ekserdjian × @bansheeofsavilerow

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Eleanor Ekserdjian (e.ekserdjian) paints responding to Scottish landscape and Donegal tweeds, natural materials that already carry landscape in their colour and texture.

Those paintings become wearable. (@bansheeofsavilerow)

#Interwoven #FabricPainting #SavileRow #Craft

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Just documented Lan Krebs pleating single jersey directly on the body.
Most pleating documentation shows woven fabrics, flat, stable, predictable. Jersey stretches. It moves. It resists permanent form.
@lankrebs

#midlandtrenduk #pleating

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Most pleating uses woven fabric. Lan Krebs uses jersey knit, material that stretches and moves.
The technique didn’t die. It evolved. Same craft knowledge, new material challenges.
This is what living practice looks like. @lankrebs

#midlandtrenduk #pleating

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Malagasy raffia weaving: craft that works with decay.Material dries while you shape it, hands adjust constantly as fiber changes texture.
400 years of technique.Geometry creates rigidity without frames or adhesive.
Traditional knowledge meeting contemporary design. @madeforawoman

[Midlandtrenduk @midlandtrenduk]

100 posts. One mission: documenting British craft as living practice.
2025: Milan Fashion Week. Vogue Business. Makers who trusted us with their stories.
2026 is when discovery becomes infrastructure.
Craft Preserved. Culture Elevated.

#2025wrapped #britishcraft #heritagecraft

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Malagasy communities have woven raffia for over 400 years—technique passed through generations of coastal artisans.
@madeforawoman @chloe
#raffiaweaving #madagascarcraft #artisanalweaving #traditionalcraft

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