Colour of the Year 2026
The WGSN/Coloro colour of the year for 2026 is transformative teal. This is described as a “fluid fusion between dependable dark blue and aquatic green” – a colour for a “time of change and redirection”. You can find versions of teal within our collections of more than 3000 fabrics.
Under the canopy
When it comes to interiors our silks are extremely popular with designers and manufacturers of lampshades. One of the largest projects we have been involved in was with Iberian Lighting, which chose our habotai to create giant 2.3m canopy lampshades for the David Collins Studio’s reimagined Georgian restaurant at Harrods.
Cloaked in silk
Pongees is supporting award-winning textile artist Vicky Price for a project to highlight domestic abuse. Vicky will be printing our heavy crepe back satin in natural for one of five cloaks that are central to the “Story Veils: Unheard Female Voices of Domestic Abuse” project. The cloaks will be photographed on five women from Greater Manchester […]
Unique embroidery piece
Pongees Wild Silks get special treatment for a large scale piece created by The London Embroidery Studio. It was debuted at the 2025 Design London Shoreditch’s House of Icon and went on to be displayed at The Luxury Fabric Show, also held in this creative area of East London. Designed and created by the Studio’s […]
Trade mark registered
We have successfully protected our brand from spurious use by any other business – which has occurred in the past and for which we have had no recourse. This is a real achievement as it is rare for a generic word such as Pongees to be trademarked, but we were able to prove that the […]
Go Wild for Pongees New Silks
Pongees range of 10 Wild Silks comprises woven by hand tussar and ghicha silks, with their distinctive, artisan appearance and feel. The fabrics are produced from the thread of wild silkworms that feed on leaves from the java plum tree. Luxurious in their own right, they are quite different from the mulberry silks that make […]
New EU Delivery Service
Pongees has launched a new delivery service to Europe, which means orders heading to the Continent will reach their destination fast and without incurring import charges – just as they did pre-Brexit. “Our UK administrative and warehouse teams are working with our new partners in the Netherlands to manage all the customs paperwork and the […]