Thomas Mason was founded in Lancashire in 1796 and has belonged to the Albini Group in Albino near Bergamo since 1992, the world's largest maker of fine shirt cloth. Bernhard Roetzel visits the weaving mill to see how the fabrics are made.
Brooks Brothers, J. Press, Haspel: Bernhard Roetzel on the American roots of the seersucker suit, the puckered weave that traps cooling pockets of air, and why the fabric was so hard to find in Europe.
Francesco Barberis Canonico is the 13th generation in charge of the Vitale Barberis Canonico mill. In conversation about an English upbringing, fabrics built for tailors and a family business that thinks ahead while honouring its past.
