Hand linking socks is both expensive and time consuming but creates a seamless perfectly flat finish giving the greatest comfort and durability. The art of hand linking requires skill, experience, enormous manual dexterity, and excellent vision. Skilled hand linkers are in short supply. Caroline Taylor, pictured here, links socks at J. Alex Swift of Hathern Leicestershire, manufacturer of socks to many of the UK's finest brands, including Community Clothing. Caroline was trained in the art at Scott Nicholl of Shepshed just six miles away, one of many firms engaged in producing exceptional hosiery in the East Midlands. Caroline's career began in 1983.
Hand linking socks is both expensive and time consuming but creates a seamless perfectly flat finish giving the greatest comfort and durability. The art of hand linking requires skill, experience, enormous manual dexterity, and excellent vision. Skilled hand linkers are in short supply. Caroline Taylor, pictured here, links socks at J. Alex Swift of Hathern Leicestershire, manufacturer of socks to many of the UK's finest brands, including Community Clothing. Caroline was trained in the art at Scott Nicholl of Shepshed just six miles away, one of many firms engaged in producing exceptional hosiery in the East Midlands. Caroline's career began in 1983.
Many of you love the Field trouser, our heavy duty military inspired wide leg chinos. We’ve sold lots and lots of them this year (are we finally getting over our 20 year obsession with skinny?). So many in fact that we’ve decided to launch them in denim!
I have long fancied including a classic Guernsey in our collection and so last summer I was delighted to have the chance to visit the Le Tricoteur factory on the island's western coast.
Everything we do is a celebration of the people, the skills and the traditions of the amazing factories we work with, all of them the very best of their kind, all of them deeply embedded in the culture and history of their communities.