Speciality sector
Web design for UK mills
We build websites for British manufacturing mills — woollen, worsted and textile mills, plus flour, paper and timber mills. Fabric libraries, swatch requests, trade and retail ordering and the heritage story that sells a British-made product at home and for export.
Mill websites have problems ordinary sites don't
A mill is not a normal e-commerce business. You sell by the metre and the piece, to trade and to public, from a range that changes every season — and the product has to look exactly right on screen. These are the four things we solve first.
Huge, complex product ranges
Hundreds of cloths across qualities, weights, compositions and colourways. We build filterable fabric libraries so buyers land on the right cloth in a couple of clicks.
Trade and retail in one place
Wholesale customers need account pricing, minimum order quantities and metreage; retail customers want a simple basket. We separate the two without running two websites.
Cloth that has to look right on screen
Colour-accurate photography, macro weave shots and zoomable swatches, so what a buyer sees is what arrives on the roll.
Export and heritage buyers
Mills sell far beyond their valley. Fast UK-hosted pages, clear shipping information and a heritage story that travels internationally.
What we build for mills
Every mill site we build starts from the same specialist toolkit, then gets tailored to your cloth, your customers and the way your office already works.
Fabric library with filters
Search by composition, weight (gsm/oz), weave, width, colour and end use.
Swatch & sample requests
Buyers add swatches to a request basket and you receive a single, tidy fulfilment order.
Trade & retail shop
WooCommerce with account-level pricing, MOQs, metre-based quantities and cut-length options.
Stock & lead-time clarity
Show in-stock pieces, made-to-order lines and realistic lead times so sales spend less time on email.
Mill & fabric SEO
Rank for the cloths you weave — tweed, worsted, lambswool, upholstery, uniform and contract fabric terms.
Heritage storytelling
Mill history, provenance, machinery and people — the reasons buyers choose a British mill over an import.
Built on real mill experience
We designed and built the website for Marton Mills, the Yorkshire weaving mill, and that project shaped how we approach the sector: a large woven range presented clearly, swatches and samples made easy to request, and trade and retail customers looked after side by side. We now offer that same service to mills across the UK — Yorkshire, Lancashire, the Scottish Borders, Wales, the West Country and beyond.
01
Mill visit or call
We learn your ranges, customer types, ordering rules and what your sales team repeats every day.
02
Structure & data
We map your cloth data into a clean product structure that your team can maintain without a developer.
03
Design & photography
A design built around the cloth, with guidance on shooting fabric so colours hold up on screen.
04
Build, launch & grow
WordPress/WooCommerce build, UK hosting, training for your team, then ongoing SEO and improvements.
Funding for manufacturing websites
Manufacturing is one of the sectors covered by the website grant schemes we work with, which can fund a share of a brand-new build. We check eligibility for your mill before you commit to anything.
- Eligibility checked for you — no cost, no obligation
- Grant offset against your build invoice
- We handle the paperwork alongside the project
Mills we work with
If you weave, spin, grind or mill it in Britain, the same principles apply.
- Woollen & worsted mills
- Tweed & tartan weavers
- Upholstery & contract fabric mills
- Yarn spinners & dyers
- Flour & grain mills
- Timber & saw mills
- Paper mills
- Heritage & working museum mills
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Let's put your cloth online properly
Tell us about your mill, your ranges and your customers. We'll come back with a plan, a price and a grant eligibility check.