How BROWN AARON began
BROWN AARON began with a partnership. Our former partner Zhongyin Cashmere went to Britain and acquired Todd & Duncan — a textile house with a century behind it. Through that partnership we learned the trade from the inside, at both ends of it: the cashmere spun on the shores of Loch Leven in Scotland, and the worsted made in Huddersfield.
What we will not do to save cost
Huddersfield is the West Yorkshire town where the worsted trade worked out how to spin, weave and finish wool properly. The name of that town is still shorthand for fine worsted, and it is still the standard we hold ourselves to.
We keep to the Huddersfield production tradition from spinning through to finishing, and do not substitute a cheaper route at any step to save cost. The fibre is restricted to natural materials — wool, linen, silk and cashmere — and no wool quality in the collection sits below Super 100s.
That is a narrow way to make cloth. It is also the only reason a claim about provenance is worth anything.
The mills we work with
Whether cloth is good depends half on us and half on who we make it with.
W.T.Johnson & Sons
Finishing
One of the world’s leading textile dyeing and finishing houses, and a byword for British manufacture. Its own independent water supply, four generations of finishing craft, machinery that exists nowhere else, and a stable, highly skilled production team.
Antich & Sons
High-grade weaving
One of only six high-grade wool mills left in England, headquartered in Huddersfield, and a supplier to the leading European houses.
Five things we hold to
Trend-aware
We follow what the market is actually wearing.
Considered materials
Natural fibres and extra-fine wool, selected globally.
Quality control
Every process step is inspected, not sampled.
Stock reliability
Fast replenishment, so a bestseller does not go out of stock.
Responsive service
We answer, whatever the hour.
A British cloth brand that young customers genuinely want to wear
Two plain requirements, and the reason we get repeat orders: it should look good on, and it should be comfortable to wear. Both matter more than any number on a specification sheet.