Sinclairs Soft-Furnishings

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Sinclairs Soft-Furnishings Bespoke soft-furnishings workshop, atelier service to retail and trade. We have been making high-end curtains and furnishings for 30 years.

With loyal trade clients still with us from the very first days, we have established a reputation for professionalism and quality. Workshop is open by appointment, and site visits can be arranged.

When a flat fell is too obvious, a french seam too bulky, overlocking ugly… go for a Hong Kong finish. Where couture mee...
14/10/2026

When a flat fell is too obvious, a french seam too bulky, overlocking ugly… go for a Hong Kong finish. Where couture meets craft…

10/10/2026

Blackout linen, cartridge heading, talk through ☺️

On every two width curtain, roughly 230cm long2 rows side locking-92 stitches 11 rows interlocking- 1982 mitres and weig...
30/09/2026

On every two width curtain, roughly 230cm long
2 rows side locking-92 stitches
11 rows interlocking- 198
2 mitres and weights- 40
7.2 meters fell hemming - 720
Pinpricking - 46
Whip - 99
Stab- 90
Top felling - 90

That’s a minimum of 1,275 hand stitches , obviously there’s machining, pressing, cutting, and general humphing

There’s probably as many ways to make interlined curtains as there are curtain makers, but I truly believe that we make them as well as they possibly can be.

Ours are the kind of furnishings that can travel through a family, they will last for decades with reasonable care.
Very little ingress available for beasties….
Securely stitched where necessary but loose enough to allow for play elsewhere

Treat them with as much care as we do and they will last a lifetime

A little peak at this lovely combo in Warwick Fabrics UK for a cottage on the west coast. Coupled with a fabulous Houlè...
21/09/2026

A little peak at this lovely combo in Warwick Fabrics UK for a cottage on the west coast. Coupled with a fabulous Houlès cut fringe on the leading edges of the curtains. Interlined curtains like these really shouldn’t be on the current available 1” tapes without some serious bolstering, we have our ways 😉

There are lots of crossovers between curtain making and dressmaking. Which is fortuitous as we are lucky to have some fu...
21/09/2026

There are lots of crossovers between curtain making and dressmaking. Which is fortuitous as we are lucky to have some fully trained fashion and costuming graduates in the workshop. Tools and techniques from one discipline inform the other. Both require a real understanding of how different fabrics behave, how what you take out is as important as what you leave, and what support is required for different circumstances. My love of fabric and my recent assisted weight loss has reawakened my love of dressmaking and fashion and it pleases me no end to use up some of the massive stash of fabric I’ve accumulated over the last 40 years.

So…… there’s a moose in the hoose… a shrew in fact. So it is protected, but we are not. To divert my mind from the irrat...
03/09/2026

So…… there’s a moose in the hoose… a shrew in fact. So it is protected, but we are not. To divert my mind from the irrational horror of this, I’ve been organising drawers, making stupid covers for IKEA shelves, and going to bed at 7.30. ( with Geoff obvs, cause he’s terrified as well) meanwhile Terry the shew is living his best life in the living room.

Next pantry shade on the table. Tricky with the braid .though it went super pretty at the top, jumped all over the shop ...
11/08/2026

Next pantry shade on the table. Tricky with the braid .though it went super pretty at the top, jumped all over the shop lower down. So I had to tame the pleats with little stitches onto a self facing at the base. Every day is a school day ☺️

Making more work than is probably necessary again. This week I was mostly working on cooky lampshades, ie apparently “pa...
09/08/2026

Making more work than is probably necessary again. This week I was mostly working on cooky lampshades, ie apparently “pantry shades”. I eschew glue, so ended up making a little circle for the top rather than binding, which just wouldn’t sit right no matter how hard I tried. Pointless really, it’ll be at ceiling height so never seen ☺️ still, I’ll know

This innocuous little corner of a curtain has 6 different rows of 5 different stitches in it. All the labour you cannot ...
02/08/2026

This innocuous little corner of a curtain has 6 different rows of 5 different stitches in it. All the labour you cannot see that helps to keep all the layers together for decades. Lock, double lock, ladder, running and fell. I don’t show how we make things generally, it’s a competitive market after all, but that means you don’t get to see the difference between what we do and what others do. So this is just a taster ☺️

Of course, because I don’t care to earn a living, and this is my favourite fabric of all time, I chose the extra mile on...
14/07/2026

Of course, because I don’t care to earn a living, and this is my favourite fabric of all time, I chose the extra mile on these beauties. Just couldn’t bear (bare?) to machine a tape on, so gathered by hand and did it proper like. Turnell & Gigon , Mrs Munro, best blue ever ❤️❤️❤️

Address

The Granary, 44 Mortonhall Gate
Edinburgh
EH166TJ

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+441315548300

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