For consumers, Gainsborough Silks is definitely a strange name, but it is a history of more than a century silk factory, but also is one of Britain's oldest factory.
The finest products and services of the top people, Gainsborough Silks customers are the royal family and politicians, celebrities, naturally, the pursuit of quality luxury brand will not miss the opportunity to collaborate with the most sophisticated technology in the factory.
Last year, the French brand Saint Laurent teamed up with Gainsborough Silks to make jackets with heavyweight craftsmanship and raw materials. According to the fashion media, the skirt of Christopher Kane's Fall/Winter 2017 collection also uses the silk crafts of its factory – the French neoclassical satin has been reinterpreted in a modern style with faux fur trim.
In fact, Kane has a lot of connections with this factory. He had previously practiced here, and paid close attention to the production process and details of the factory. At that time, he was shocked by the high degree of caution that workers treated garments.
Gainsborough was founded by Reginald Warner in the East End of London in 1903, when the textile workers in that area were over-taxed Jews, and Warner himself was a textile worker. He also loved to travel and he accumulated a variety of travels through Europe. Samples of textiles (more than 5,000 in total) have become part of the Gainsborough Archive today.
As the cooperation between the factory and the fashion industry has become more intensive, its service sector has expanded to include costumes for film scenes and stages, and even the royal interiors of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle are also responsible for them.
In this way, it seems that the factory has never grown old and has never quit the public's sight for more than 100 years. In this regard, creative director Russell Sage explained to the Spherelife website: "We have nothing special to do, my approach is A hundred years ago, our factory was still completely intact, and we still pay special attention to details."
British silk weaving technology is so superb that it relies on centuries of development and evolution. The source of this huge industry can be traced back to the period of the Nantes Act issued by Louis XIV in 1685. A large number of foreign refugees engaged in the textile industry have already settled in the UK, most of them in the village called Spitalfields. At that time, the United Kingdom welcomed more than 13,000 French refugees. The Survey of London reporters reported: "They brought us a lot of industrial technology, especially the textile industry, God should bless them."
It was only at that time that Britain was still ignorant of the "silk" of the East. The real thing was that in the 18th century, the British East India Company entered the Chinese market for trade. They used British wool products and Indian cotton with China. Tea, porcelain and silk trade, these oriental treasures have opened the door to the new world in the West, and soon tea and silk have become the highest proportion of British import transactions.
At the same time, in the 18th century, the UK accelerated the study of textile technology. To localize silk products and technologies, the British succeeded in innovating a number of technologies, including silk looms, electric looms and drum printing. In the 19th century, many outstanding French scientists not only invented new machines, but also spread them in the industry, and prevented and controlled the filariasis caused by the development of the silk industry at that time.
Nowadays, the silk industry in the UK has developed into more places. Macclesfield is one of the fastest growing towns in the silk industry in the UK in recent years. The BBC has interviewed local manufacturers. The factory staff said: "Although the history of the silk industry in the UK has been going through centuries, it is only in the French Revolution that the United Kingdom has a chance to ban the development of the silk industry. It has been developed and developed to this day. In small towns like Macclesfield, people here rely almost exclusively on this industry to maintain their lives."
The importance of silk to the UK is self-evident. There are still many people who are willing to spend £200 to buy a silk scarf or £90 to buy a silk tie. This high-end market is still flexible. At Macclesfield, the factory produces several kilometers of silk products per year. The city's emotional connection with the silk industry has lasted for four centuries, and it gives people living in this town a unified identity.
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