Loro Piana Fabric

Loro Piana is an Italian mill, based in Piedmont, that has spent a century at the top end of cloth production. Its name usually reaches home sewers second-hand, through a jacket lining label or a tailor's swatch book, because the mill sells to fashion houses rather than to the public. The fabric on this page reaches us the way it reaches most independent shops: as surplus from designer production runs, mill ends and cancelled orders.

That's what makes the page worth checking back on. These are technical, expensively finished cloths at a fraction of what the mill's name usually commands, and when a length is gone there isn't another one behind it. It also means this page looks different every time you visit. There's no core range to come back for, only whatever we've managed to buy.

What we're stocking at the moment

What turns up tends to fall into a few families. Waterproof and windproof cottons with a matte finish, soft rather than rustly, built for jackets and outerwear where you want weather protection without the look of technical sportswear. Weather-treated cottons and seersuckers carrying the mill's own Storm System® finish, which makes a cloth water-repellent while keeping its natural handle. Premium linens and suitings, standard in character but considerably better finished than the price suggests. And technical outerwear cloth, smooth and lightweight with a breathable, refined handle, suited to unlined or lightly lined jackets.

The grid above is the definitive list of what's available today. Composition, width and finish vary by piece rather than following a house standard, so read the individual product page rather than assuming from the collection.

Buying deadstock cloth

Everything here is a fixed quantity. There's no reordering, no matching a second length later, and no guarantee a cloth returns. If you're making a jacket, work out your yardage including facings and contrast pieces and buy the lot in one order. Ordering a sample first is sensible, and free, but a length can sell out while you're deciding.

Care varies too. A weather-repellent finish and an untreated linen want very different handling, and aggressive washing can strip a technical finish altogether. Follow the care label on the specific cloth rather than a general rule.

For the wider picture, our ex-designer branded fabrics and deadstock fabric collections cover how this cloth reaches us and what else is available. Every brand we stock is listed on the Shop by Brand page.