Pinewood Textiles Dalton, Georgia

Dalton, Georgia  ·  Woven, knit, dyed, finished

Every fabric has a path.

Follow woven, knit, dye and finish from first hand to final roll. A mill in Dalton, mapped stop by stop for the designers and brands who walk it with us.

Plan a custom route Walk the trail
Woven Structure
Knit Movement
Dye Colour
Finish Hand

The route

Five stops from first hand to finished roll.

Each stage has its own ground. We work the whole trail under one roof in Dalton, so a designer can follow a fabric from yarn to roll without losing sight of it.

01

Stop one — Woven

Structure first

Warp and weft meet on the loom. This is where weight, drape and durability are decided, and where the hand of the cloth begins to show itself.

Structure · Weight · Hand

A loom weaving a length of greige fabric
On the loom, warp under tensionStop 01
02

Stop two — Knit

Loops, not lines

Knits are built from loops rather than interlacing, so the cloth moves, stretches and recovers. Different machinery, different path, same finish line.

Stretch · Recovery · Drape

Yarn cones feeding a circular knitting machine
Yarn feeding the knitting headStop 02
03

Stop three — Dye

Colour on the trail

Colour is developed and matched, then run across the lot — so the roll you open first and the roll you open last still belong to the same cloth.

Match · Lot · Repeat

Fabric passing through a dye range into a vat
Fabric entering the dye rangeStop 03
04

Stop four — Finish

The last mile

Finishing settles the cloth: the final hand, the sheen, the stability that keeps a fabric behaving the way it did on the table, long after it leaves Dalton.

Hand · Sheen · Stability

Weave draft, finish sequenceStop 04
05

Stop five — Custom run

A route of your own

Not every design follows a known path. Custom runs are charted from the first hand sample to the production lot, with every stop agreed before we start walking.

Development · Sampling · Production

A route drawn across the terrainStop 05

Trail notes

Notes from along the route.

Designers and brands bring us a reference, a hand feel or a performance target. These are the routes their fabrics take — and the families of cloth we run most often.

Rolls of finished fabric stacked and wrapped on the mill floor
Finished rolls, staged for shippingDalton, Georgia
  • Wovens

    Warp and weft constructions set for structure, weight and hand.

  • Knits

    Looped cloth with stretch, recovery and drape built into the structure.

  • Dyeing

    Colour developed, matched and run consistently across the lot.

  • Finishing

    The final hand, sheen and stability applied after the dye bath.

  • Custom runs

    A development route from the first hand sample to the production lot.

The terrain

From fiber to finish, we know the terrain.

Woven fabrics, knits, dyeing, finishing and custom runs — the whole trail runs through one mill in Dalton, Georgia. No handoffs to strangers, no guessing at who did what, no fabric that arrives without a history.

Dalton, Georgia  ·  one mill, one route

  • 01 Woven fabrics

    Warp and weft, set to your structure, weight and hand.
  • 02 Knits

    Looped constructions for stretch, recovery and drape.
  • 03 Dyeing

    Colour developed, matched and run across the lot.
  • 04 Finishing

    The final hand, sheen and stability after the dye bath.
  • 05 Custom runs

    A route charted for a single design, from sample to lot.

Plan your route

Bring the brief. We'll chart the stops.

Tell us what the fabric has to do — how it should fall, wear, take colour, hold up. We'll map the construction, the dye route, the finish and the run that gets it into your hands.

  • A reference fabric
  • A hand feel
  • A performance target
  • A first sample
A design table with fabric swatches and sketches
Swatches and sketches, planning a routeBefore the first sample

Start a custom run

Send the brief and we'll come back with the stops along the way.

We'll reply with the route: construction, dye, finish and the run.