British brand Community Clothing will launch a new capsule collection, in partnership with the National Trust Quarry Bank Mill this Thursday 1st August. Community Clothing has collaborated with Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire to produce a small range of unique clothing made from cotton cloth which has been both spun and woven on the mill's beautifully maintained historic machinery.
The three piece striped capsule features the Elena overshirt, Olivia shirt dress and a tote bag - created from striped deadstock fabric on a loom in one of the world’s largest and oldest cotton mills.
Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire is a jewel in the National Trusts crown. In its day one of the largest, and grandest, textile mills in Britain, today it is a beautiful monument to the very best of British ingenuity and skill. Set within a picture postcard perfect industrial community are its spinning and weaving sheds producing exceptional quality cotton fabrics. The mill, the surrounding workers houses, and all of the various amenities built within the mill complex were the brainchild of Samuel Gregg and his wife Hannah Lightbody. Completed in 1784, it was considered amongst the most advanced mills of its day.
The cloth used in the Community Clothing x Quarry Bank Mill collection consists of two yarns, a weft processed and spun from bale to cloth at Quarry Bank, and a warp spun by English Fine Cottons just up the road in Dukinfield and dyed at the Yarn Dyer of Blackburn, meaning all yarns are fully traceability right back to the field.
Patrick Grant, Community Clothing founder adds: “My mission is to make exceptional quality everyday clothes out of the best natural materials. Using fabric produced on Quarry Bank’s heritage machines, and from scratch, is a perfect fit for us. It very much resonates with the theme of my new book, ‘Less’ and my mission to support incredible craftspeople and to encourage people to value things made well and with care.”
The Community Clothing x Quarry Bank Mill collection launches on 1st August, available to purchase at the Community Clothing and priced from £35 - £99.
About Quarry Bank
Quarry Bank has evolved in the care of the National Trust, offering visitors the chance to immerse themselves in the industrial past, and explore and enjoy the beauty of 465 acres of gardens, woodland, and countryside, which are vital to our future. Our Rangers and volunteers are going to extraordinary lengths to look after nature here at Quarry Bank. From creating green corridors, and graded woodlands, to planting 40,000 trees across three farms on the estate by 2024, including 100 native Black Poplars.
About The National Trust
The National Trust is a conservation charity founded in 1895 by three people who saw the importance of our nation's heritage and open spaces, and wanted to preserve them for everyone to enjoy. More than 120 years later, these values are still at the heart of everything the charity does. Entirely independent of Government, the National Trust looks after more than 250,000 hectares of countryside, 780 miles of coastline and hundreds of special places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. More than 26 million people visit every year, and together with 5.2 million members and over 61,000 volunteers, they help to support the charity in its work to care for special places forever, for everyone. www.nationaltrust.org.uk
About Community Clothing
Community Clothing is a British clothing brand and social enterprise founded in 2016 by award winning clothing designer and judge on BBC One’s The Great British Sewing Bee Patrick Grant. Community Clothing does good things for people and communities in the UK, creating jobs where they’re needed most. The mission is simple; to sell great quality clothes at prices people can afford; to make these clothes in the best British factories from the finest natural materials; and by doing this to create work and support skilled jobs in regions of the UK that need them most. In short, Community Clothing sells great quality clothes, at affordable prices and consequently creates loads of fantastic jobs in places that really need them. To date Community Clothing has created 279,000 hours of work and supported 1,880 jobs. Community Clothing has a network of 42 partner factories all over the UK, located predominantly in the Northwest, Yorkshire, the East Midlands and South Wales. Community Clothing has developed a unique business model that keeps costs super low, enabling the brand to produce clothes in the very best UK factories from the best materials, and still sell them at affordable prices. The unique business model utilises off-peak production, creates seasonless, brilliant basics, supports ultra local supply chains and promotes radical simplicity.
For further information, please contact:
Press - harriet@whitehair.co
07790003417
VIP & Influencer Relations - laura@whitehair.co
07917694953
www.whitehair.co
Comments