We have been able to set cloth into a handle for years, and had been quietly waiting for a reason good enough to use it. Then we met Massy-Birch, a family of bespoke tailors who have been cutting tweed in the Devon countryside since 2012, and the waiting stopped. Their cloth, our knives: a collaboration as obvious as the nose on your face. The result is The Tweed Collection, six outdoor knives with their tweed set permanently into a three-part handle, riveted and bonded into an almost seamless whole. No two are quite alike, and nobody else makes anything like them.
The knives themselves are built for the life the cloth was woven for. Sandvik 14C28N stainless steel, hardened in our workshop to 60 HRC, holds a fine edge through rain, blood and a wet sheath. The six run from the compact Cervus to the full-reach FU Too, taking in a gralloching knife, a sweeping-edged Crescent and two field utilities that do exactly what their names suggest. Each one leaves Wiltshire in a leather sheath, hand-formed and hand-stitched by our Master Saddler, Tiffany, so the whole thing is dressed properly before it ever reaches a pocket.
In collaboration with Massy-Birch.