Empire wool and canvas company

[ledders666]

Hello, does anyone have any experience with this company and in particular this top ?
http://www.empirecanvasworks.com/boreal.htm

Im very tempted cant find many woolen smocks in the uk

Or does anyone know of any simular available in the Uk except swandri, I dont like the length of theres.

 

[Elen Sentier]

I like the look of the Boreal shirt, shall use pic as a pattern for my blanket-smock I think

 

[rik_uk3]

Google lace up hoodie and a few similar will show

 

[Dougster]

Howies do something called a yurt which is only listed for women at the moment. I have a pullover and a jacket, both bought in the sale and I really like them.

 

[Chris the Cat]

I have the Wool blanket Shirt.
A real favorite of mine.

best.
Cat.

 

[Dougster]

I have to add, I love the look of some of their gear, the parka and field shirt in particular.

 

[Tiley]

I've got a couple of things from them - the wool jacket with the poppers up the front and an amazing parka from when Kevin had a roll of Ventile to play with - both of them are utterly superb. Kevin himself is a really good bloke and will do his utmost to include any little design alterations you might want. The quality of his gear is truly excellent and he is pretty efficient about getting the stuff out to you as well. It is not the cheapest but it will certainly withstand as much abuse as you, your children and your grand children can hand out to it.

I have no connection with the company; I am a very, very satisfied customer, that's all!

 

[treadlightly]

It's interesting that they choose to use a wool/nylon blend rather than 100 per cent wool.

 

[Teepee]

Their canvas parka was used by Gordon Buchanan on the year long polar bear shoot.

( not the bloke in the bear suit)

 

[Tiley]

It's interesting that they choose to use a wool/nylon blend rather than 100 per cent wool.

I believe that there is a 100% wool option, made by Kevin, but sold by a different outfit. There used to be a link to the site that sold them. I don't know whether it's still there.

 

[swotty]

That's a site where a young man could spend a lot of money....I wish had some

 

[Rabbitsmacker]

Their canvas parka was used by Gordon Buchanan on the year long polar bear shoot.

( not the bloke in the bear suit)

I though he was in a swedish smock in that series? I really fancy one of those empire smocks.look the bomb.

 

[Teepee]

I though he was in a swedish smock in that series? I really fancy one of those empire smocks.look the bomb.

Great bits of kit. If I was getting a smock, I'd be torn between making a Wayland copy or one of those bad boys from Empire.

I was dead sure it was an empire smock on brown pants Buchanan, I remember seeing the label. Googling hasn't helped confirm it though and checking my undyed smock I got last month, it looks pretty similar at the neck and the drawstrings and nothing like the new Empire job on the website ......

 

[Rabbitsmacker]

Brown pants, that made me chuckle. It was the shape of the pocket flaps that made me think it was swedish, they have that point thing going on lol. Good series that.

 

[Teepee]

Brown pants, that made me chuckle. It was the shape of the pocket flaps that made me think it was swedish, they have that point thing going on lol. Good series that.

Yeah, great series

I can't find a decent pic of it, or the pockets, so I'm giving up.

 

[Rabbitsmacker]

Lol, don't blame ya, i just did a quick image search and this the best I can do. Goin back to the Mallory + irvine program on bbc2.
http://swns.com/news/polar-scare-cameraman-captures-full-force-hungry-polar-bear-attack-29608/

 

[robotchicken80]

Hi Ledder,

I got the Boreal jacket 100% wool. There used to be a link in their website in order to order the 100% one.
I am kinda short, so I ordered mine a little bit shorter than the standard model and there was absolutely no problem with that. There was quite a long waiting list, so it took them almost 4 months to deliver mine, but they also warned me about that. "Custom-made orders take longer" they said.
The product has an outstanding quality and it's keeping me warm in the German winter...

Highly recommeded. You will not regret it.

Cheers

 

[Corso]

the 100% wool version is avalible here

http://lrbushcraft.com/