About us

Coventry was once the ribbon capital of England. In the 1850s tens of thousands of people here worked in silk weaving, many of them in the top-shop houses of Hillfields, where the long upper windows still light the old loom rooms.

Our mill was started in 1987 by Margaret and Dennis Ashby, who had both worked at a Foleshill weaving firm until it closed. They bought two looms at the auction and set them up in a rented garage. Their daughter Claire runs the mill today with three weavers and an apprentice.

We weave for theatres, milliners, bookbinders, regimental tailors and a good number of people who simply wanted a ribbon in a colour nobody else makes.