Lloyd Loom: weaving its way around the world again

David Breese, a Lincolnshire furniture maker, started out restoring and selling pre-war original Lloyd Loom furniture.  When it became difficult to source sufficient good quality originals to meet growing demand  he decided to manufacture himself. In 1985 he began researching the techniques and  trained his workers until he had a skilled staff expert in the craft that had originally been learnt in 1920 when the process was invented. There was