Comments on: 'A return of manufacturing to the UK was only a matter of time' /press/a-return-of-manufacturing-to-the-uk-was-only-a-matter-of-time/ Build Your Homegrown Brand. Boost Local Manufacturing. Make Buying British a Doddle. Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:19:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Patricia Smith /press/a-return-of-manufacturing-to-the-uk-was-only-a-matter-of-time/#comment-6321992 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:31:37 +0000 /?p=20041#comment-6321992 Most encouraging article, Kate. You have done so much to inspire the return of British manufacturing and I watch with such hope.
I have to agree, also, with Justine, about the skills shortage of the fine seamstress/machinist. We need to do more to elevate its status, alongside that of the designer – after all, they are mutually inseparable. It starts in schools and colleges….perhaps there is a slight shift happening….but more needs to be done to promote the sheer joy and career satisfaction it can provide. Patrick Grant touched on it at MTM. For too long it has been neglected; either ignored as insignificant, or a closely guarded secret amongst the few! Machines, alone, have limitations. The same applies to all manufacturing, not only the garment industry.

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