Our story
HIILAMS began by serving bespoke ateliers: finding cloth that worked and recording its specifications properly. As the number of partner workshops grew, we started taking part in fibre selection, setting yarn counts and defining finishing standards — and in time built our own range.
Today HIILAMS serves ateliers, ready-to-wear labels and private clients alike, from the cloth through to the finished garment.
Craft
From raw fibre to finished roll, we hold three control points: twist and evenness in spinning, density and tension in weaving, shrinkage and hand in finishing.
Before a batch leaves us we record yarn count, weight, width, shrinkage and dye-lot. An atelier receives not just a roll of cloth but a sheet it can check against — wastage predicted before the first cut, and fewer remakes.
Responsibility
Most waste in this trade happens in stock and in remakes. Our answer is unglamorous: get the specifications right so ateliers cut correctly, and keep stock shallow — weave to demand rather than to a warehouse.
On the raw-material side we give preference to wool suppliers with traceable origin, and we are steadily raising the share of recycled fibre in our blends.