Ninety-nine years ago, Harold Stanier returned home as a Royal Flying Corp pilot and invested his savings in a knitting machine. He spent wisely, as his drive and technical skills allowed his textile business to grow rapidly.
Almost a century on, the business is still owned by the same family but now located in picturesque 300-year-old buildings in rural Herefordshire. New House Textiles (NHT) has moved with the times, but Harold would still recognise the ethos that underpins the business today.
The Company is now mainly concerned with interiors, employing RCA trained designers to create fabrics and accessories for interiors, much of which is exported. However, for over 50 years New House has also been designing and manufacturing yarn-breakage detector systems for the textile industry. Systems that Harold first designed to solve yarn-handling problems in his own factory.
Today with high-speed looms, 1000’s of ends go into modern looms so knowing when a yarn has broken, is critical to avoid faulty fabric.
Germany is still the home of the world’s most advanced textile machinery and New House are proud that their yarn-breakage detectors are part of the supply chain. NHT has successfully completed orders this summer despite covid, and supplied their detectors as OE on German-made looms.