Tweedles

Berwick street London. A Saturday afternoon. Walking up this, my favourite Soho street, and stumble upon the Textile King at No.18. Since we've started thinking about bedding I've been wondering whether it would be possible to make bedding using wool and cashmere alongside your high-quality percale. I love the warm texture of these fabrics, but since they usually come with a "dry-clean only" label, they seem hardly suitable for bedding. But is this true?

I talked with the salesman at Textile King and he said that if wool or cashmere are woven with 10% of man-made thread, they may indeed be protected against shrinking. So this is an experiment I'm now going to conduct. I bought the weird yellow/grey check fabric (top of the pile in the middle picture) which I really love and I'm going to see how it performs under a hot wash and a cold wash. I think I might even make pillows out of it first on my wee sewing machine and if they work, I can have them on my bed. Watch this space.

I also love how it says on it "Woven in Scotland". I think it would be great to incorporate this into the design, rather than hide it, and would be even better if it said "Woven in Scotland for Pronkponie". A touch of bespoke class. Most of the mills are in the Scottish borders so I'm planning a drive down there to see what they have to offer.