Gladson

European cloth, chosen in New York since 1948

Gladson has sold cloth in New York for the better part of a century. It began in the late 1930s, with Benjamin Solomon and his brothers selling English fabrics from warehouses in Manhattan, and in 1948 the business took its name: Gladys, Ben's wife, plus son. It still trades from midtown Manhattan.

Like any merchant, Gladson chooses cloth rather than weaving it. Its books draw on houses such as Vitale Barberis Canonico and Reda, alongside ranges of its own, Bedlam among them, and it carries the Fresco book from Huddersfield Fine Worsteds. The jacketing bunches reach as far as Harris Tweed.

What we value in Gladson is its range. One Gladson book can settle a brief that would otherwise mean opening five, and every length in it has already been argued over by people who handle cloth for a living.

Gladson lengths come and go through our cloth library rather than anchoring a fixed collection, so what we hold changes from one visit to the next. Ask at your fitting to see what has come in.