Gainsborough Weaving Company
Birth Date: 1903
Gainsborough is a Jacquard weaving mill and dye house based in Suffolk, producing cloth using both modern and traditional punch card looms. Established in 1903 by an enterprising weaver, Reginald Warner, the business moved to its present location in 1924.
Gainsborough runs an in-house operation from design and dying through to weaving. With a wonderful archive of over 7,000 designs built up through Warner’s Grand Tours and successive generations of weaving, Gainsborough is by nature a very special and rare example of British craftsmanship and artisanal manufacture.
Awarded the Royal Warrant in 1981, the company has produced fabrics for royal palaces, state buildings and grand residences the world over.