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A self-taught weaver is stemming the tide of cheap foreign clothes - by launching the first woollen mill in London in 100 years.
Daniel Harris' tiny one-man factory weaves bespoke woollen cloth on antique looms and has had fashion houses like Ben Sherman and Ralph Lauren beating a path to its door.
Amazingly, 18 months before he opened the mill, Daniel did not even know what a loom looked like let alone how to operate one.
But that didn't stop him forking out for a 90-year-old industrial loom and teaching himself how to use it to create intricate cloth patterns.
Pic: PhilYeomans/BNPS
A self-taught weaver is stemming the tide of cheap foreign clothes - by launching the first woollen mill in London in 100 years.
Daniel Harris' tiny one-man factory weaves bespoke woollen cloth on antique looms and has had fashion houses like Ben Sherman and Ralph Lauren beating a path to its door.
Amazingly, 18 months before he opened the mill, Daniel did not even know what a loom looked like let alone how to operate one.
But that didn't stop him forking out for a 90-year-old industrial loom and teaching himself how to use it to create intricate cloth patterns.
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