The Fabric Consultancy

The Fabric Consultancy offers fabric and material management for equestrian and rural brands. Our service includes the sourcing and development of new fabrics, management of your current bulk fabric manufacturing, ensuring every fabric performs to the highest possible standard to ensure it is fit for purpose. Manage nominated fabric suppliers to ensure developments, print strike offs, lab dips and bulk shipments are received in a timely manner to ensure the smooth running of the product development and bulk manufacturing processes. Able to negotiate prices and minimum order quantities to maximise profits. As well as devising greige forecasts for production. Advise on new innovations in fabric technology, upcoming trends, and advances in sustainable fabric solutions to reduce your businesses carbon footprint. Extensive experience in developing waterproof, breathable fabrics and DWR finishes, ensuring the use of environmentally improved chemicals without compromising technical performance. We are happy to regularly provide consultations to help troubleshoot and audit the materials element of your business as well as offering short FTC during periods of low staffing. We can also deliver focussed training to upskill product development staff to improve their fabric and materials knowledge. Kirsty, our main consultant, has over 15 years’ experience in fabric and material management, working with fashion and performance brands. Uniquely, Kirsty is also a qualified veterinary physiotherapist, with many years owning, retraining, and rehabilitating ex-racehorses. This places Kirsty in a great position to be able to advise on equestrian products especially those related to the biomechanics of horse and rider.