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Bespoke Cashmere – Step by Step Guide

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Each and every piece is custom made to order, with very little restriction. Hand dyed, woven and finished using traditional methods in your preferred colour, weave, weight, size and finish. Enabling you to create luxurious and unique accessories that work perfectly with the surroundings in which they are designed to sit. The combinations are endless and we rarely create the same piece twice. Choose from 100% pure cashmere or a Luxury Cashmere Blend, for more information please visit our gallery page.

View our full range in the gallery

Step-by-step process

From the perfect weave to complement your interiors to colour combination, finish and weight, your bespoke cashmere throw is just five simple steps away…

1

Fibre

Firstly choose your fibre composition. Select Pure cashmere or our Luxury Cashmere Blend, a beautiful mix of 60% Bamboo & 40% Cashmere.

Bespoke Fabrics

2

Colour

Choose a single colour or a combination of 2. one colour? Choose from our 46 luscious shades. For two colours, choose form our 3 base colours, then select a complimentary colour.

  • Barley

  • Moody

  • French Navy

  • Blue Buoy

  • Amethyst

  • Sandy Beach

  • Champagne

  • Orchid

  • Moss

  • Turquoise

  • Greek Olive

  • Beaujolais

  • Citrus

  • Fuchsia

  • Satsuma

  • Noir

  • Truffle

  • Espresso

  • Fresh Meadow

  • Teal

  • Wellington Green

  • Squirrel

  • Moulin Rouge

  • Retro Perfect

  • Winter Sky

  • Boudoir

  • Parma Violets

  • Cork

  • Purple Rain

  • Oyster

  • Sunshine

  • Spinnaker Red

  • Gulf Stream

  • Grapefruit

  • English Rose

  • Woodland

  • Stormy Sea

  • Potters Wheel

  • Base White

  • Natural

  • Smoked Pearl

  • Grey Anchor

  • Seal

  • Coco Bean

  • Grey

  • Silver Cloud

Please note, as standard our Luxury Cashmere Blend is only available in one colour.

3

Weave

With 15 weaves to choose from, for a smart classic look select a herringbone or for a more contemporary geometric look go for a criss criss-cross.

  • Twill

  • Ikat

  • Small Basket

  • 2″ Herringbone

  • Honeycomb

  • Reverse Chelsea

  • Parquet

  • Peacock Feather

  • Chain

  • Diamond

  • Waffle

  • Criss Cross

  • Cortland

  • Bale

  • Strata

4

Weight

We offer a choice of weights to create your perfect throw or blanket. Choose 2 ply for a lightweight throw, or 4 ply for something a little more indulgent. For a sumptuous blanket, our 6 ply weight will ensure the cosiest warmth.

5

Size

We’ve found that 130 x 180cm is the perfect size for a casual throw to dress a chair or sofa. However as most of our looms are just under 3 metres wide we can create custom-sized pieces to perfectly fit your requirements.

Bespoke Sizes

6

Finish

The finishing touches really enhance your unique piece. For a relaxed feel choose from one of our gorgeous tassel designs, or pure silk for a luxurious touch. Alternatively select our fabulous cashmere binding for a more natural, contemporary finish.

Border finishes

Hand applied with care and precision, our borders are available in pure cashmere or silk. For a smart finish these act as a beautiful finish to a piece, like a frame to a picture. Below shows a silk border on the left and a cashmere border on the right.

Images shown: Pure Mulberry silk border (left) and Pure hand woven cashmere border (right).

Tassel finishes

The finishing touches really enhance your chosen piece and enables you to create a completely customised finish. For a relaxed finish choose from one of our eight gorgeous tassel designs. Please visit gillianweir.co.uk for all designs.

 

  • Tassel A

  • Tassel B

  • Tassel C

  • Tassel D

  • Tassel E

  • Tassel F

  • Tassel G

  • Tassel H

Design notes

Colour guide

Our beautiful palette allows you to create the perfect colour throw, blanket, bedcover or cushion to complement your interior scheme. As all of our pieces are made to order, we also offer a colour match service.

Please note: as part of the traditional drying process, all of our cashmere pieces are air dried in the sun. This can cause up to 5% tonal variation. Colour match service: If you don’t find your perfect shade in our 46 colours, we can colour match to any Pantone, RAL or fabric swatch.

Base colours

When selecting a two colour throw, start with a classic base shade of base white, natural or grey and then a complementing colour.