Paynter

It’s a huge privilege to work with talented weavers like Rachel, one of the islanders making our Harris Tweed for Batch No.19.5. Watch along to see how this cloth comes to life in the loom shed. 🎥 James Thompson

Waking up to see a feature on us in the @nytimes isn’t a caption we ever thought we’d be writing, but that pipe dream just became a reality. Thank you so much Steven for the write up and for contacting some of our customers to get their perspective on Paynter. When we sent this link to our factories as soon as it went live, one of them said “it’s super nice to see us on NY Times, it really compensates all the hard work”. 🧥🤝🥳 Head to the link in our bio to read the full piece.

This week, Paynter turns seven. Seven years of jackets, long nights, lucky breaks and lessons we definitely didn’t know to expect at the start. To celebrate this moment, here are the seven ideas that have shaped how we think about business, creativity and success so far. 1. Making physical products matters Making physical products is hard, especially when they’re made to order. But in a world where digital content is infinite and AI is filling the internet with more noise every day, physical products feel increasingly important. Thoughtful, well-made objects have a soul. They’re the result of carefully honed crafts and countless human decisions. We’re grateful that we get to make garments for so many of you and proud to support all of the skilled hands behind every piece we make. 2. Prepare for luck Some of the biggest moments in our business came from things we could never have planned. You can’t control or manufacture luck, but you can make space and prepare for it. Keep showing up. Share your work. Build something interesting enough that people want to talk about it. Most ‘lucky breaks’ are years of quiet preparation finally meeting the right moment. For the next five lessons we’ve learnt, click the link in our bio to read the full piece. 📝

Micro jackets for a Micro Batch. Human sized Quilted Vests launching tomorrow 1st May at 1.30pm BST. 👀 🎥 Directed/animated by @phoebestopmotion 🪡 Mini jackets made by @charlotte__dupont @smallscaled 🎬DOP @george_warrennnn 🔊 Sound @___nosound

A couple of weeks ago we spoke to @mleonczik at @sprezza__ about slow drops and what’s coming next. 📸 our next Micro Batch, available this Friday 1st May for our newsletter subscribers.

Studio news. 1, Meet Noush. This year my new years resolution was to find someone fantastic to join our team of two. Truthfully, I was struggling to manage our emails without working late into the night, and with a newborn baby last year we quickly realised we needed a better balance. Customer service has always been a huge part of what we do so it was essential for us to find someone seriously good to help us out in-house. Enter Noush. She loves people, cares as much as we do and we’re so happy to have her as part of the team. I think my shoulders have dropped 4 inches since she joined! 2, Next up - A Micro Batch. Our Micro Batches are a chance for us to experiment with new fabrics, techniques, and styles. Making smaller ‘test drives’ of new pieces so we can put ideas out into the world. Our next Micro Batch will be our first quilted piece, using luxurious fabrics you don’t find in a style like this. We’ll be taking the shots for our site in the coming days, before the launch in just over 2 weeks. 3, Fabric development. We’re deep in product development at the moment and currently working with an Irish woollen mill to develop a custom Glen Check cloth. We’re sampling two versions to make sure we get the right level of neppy character that the mill are known for. 4, Knitwear developments. Knitwear will be a whole new category for us this year and thanks to finding seriously good partners, we’re on track to start manufacturing our first pieces this summer. I’ve just had to send my favourite jumper (our first Paynter sample) back to our factory and am missing the softness of the 100% merino wool from my daily rotation. While we put final tweaks into action for the fit and details, we’ve been dyeing colours with our yarn suppliers in Italy.

One of the things we love the most about doing photoshoots is featuring friends old and new, meeting new creatives and learning about their craft. Interesting people, doing interesting things. Entering their spaces to find out about the work they’re doing. It’s a huge privilege to be let in, and to be able to take you there through the photos too. For the shoot for our Utility Jacket we spent time capturing the work of a group of artists and makers whose work is shaped by the outdoors. From sculpting body parts in Somerset to painting landscapes on Cornish beaches, carving timber shaped by storms, or casting a fly line across cold water. Ft here, wearing our Black Utility jackets are @lg_page and @tomheywoodbespoke Meet Lucy - In her bright studio in Somerset, Lucy Page sculpts work shaped by the language of the human body. Tiles with ears or noses. Fingers that become hooks or handles. Bowls with feet. Her work feels alive and unfolds with a quiet confidence. When we visited, she was at work sanding a ceiling rose for a custom commission on a table made by her partner Dewi. Together they’re a pair who can turn their hand to anything. 185 miles down the road is @tomheywoodbespoke ’s workshop in a chapel he’s renovating. His work often begins where nature leaves off, using fallen trees and storm-felled timber as the starting point for new forms. His figures often begin directly from the stumps, working through every season and all kinds of weather. Drawn to the human form and its relationship with the landscape, Tom transforms timber at the end of its life cycle into sculptural pieces that feel rooted in the places they came from - a process that, when returned to the landscape, must feel very powerful. 📸 @amelia_p_photography

Fabric. Function. Form. The fabric that we had wanted to work with for so long was from Halley Stevensons in Scotland. For over 100 years, they’ve produced the iconic oily, wet waxed canvases we all recognise. We love those fabrics. But what really interested us was something different. Something they’d only developed in the last few years. Using their tightly woven lightweight canvas base, they spent years developing a more versatile waxed finish. The result was a waxed fabric that’s lighter, softer and drier to the touch. It has a cleaner finish and works well in brighter colours. All of this makes it more comfortable to wear year-round whilst remaining durable, water-repellent and ageing gracefully. It took them two years and 25 experiments, refining the FCF wax application methods and testing different finishing processes, working through many metres of fabric before it was right. For Batch No.23, we’ve dyed the fabric in four colourways - Evergreen, Tobaco, Classic Navy and Black. Two of the four have already sold out, just Evergreen and Navy are remaining. Our pre order is open until Wednesday evening, or sooner if the final meters of fabric are sold out. 📸 @amelia_p_photography

Today we’re opening early access to pre-order Batch No.23 for our newsletter subscribers. Our Utility Jacket is made from a British fluorocarbon-free waxed cotton and is available in four colours - Evergreen, Black, Tobacco and Classic Navy. We’ve just updated our website with over 100 new photos so you can now see every detail of Batch No.23. As some previous jackets have sold out in minutes, and with limited fabric available in each colour, we wanted to give you early access so you can guarantee yourself a jacket from Batch No.23 if you like what you see. Our campaign for Batch No.23 was shot in collaboration with @amelia_p_photography . It was a great privilege to document the work of artists and friends whose work we love. Next week we’re plotting a newsletter to introduce you to their work! Until then, thank you for your support, we can’t wait to make for you against

Tomorrow at 2pm GMT, we’ll be releasing Batch No.23 - The Waxed Utility Jacket for our newsletter subscribers. Every jacket has a starting point. For Batch No.23, it was a roll of lightweight dry-waxed canvas we couldn’t ignore. After months of development , it became clear what it should become: a shorter, zipped, waxed jacket. Practical, but not bulky. Comfortable from the very first wear. A jacket that just gets on with it. Lightweight and with plenty of useful pockets. It also had to layer easily. And above all, it had to feel purposeful. Research began by going through old references of hardwearing canvas and waxed outerwear. Jackets that were designed with a real purpose and not just to look good. Here’s what we found. A Melting Pot of Inspiration We drew from pieces that had already proven themselves over time. Not to replicate them, but to refine what worked. The Silhouette Inspired by a vintage American mechanic’s jacket — zipped, short, practical, with a well-proportioned corduroy collar. The Function Sleeves and hip pockets influenced by a long waxed overcoat for better movement and shape, and buttoned pockets for security. A cuff strap borrowed from a vintage hunting jacket — unobtrusive, and surprisingly useful. The Protection A storm shield taken from an old fly fishing coat, secured with a clean four-snap closure to guard against the elements without adding bulk. The Details Cord-lined cuffs from our Barn Jacket. Generous internal pockets and soft linings from our Applecross Jacket. Refined undercollar stitching from our Wilton Overcoat. Written down, it sounds like such a mix. But in reality, it just works. There’s a lot to this jacket. A lot of details. A lot of references. And a lot of hard work from our factories and suppliers. But when you put it on, it doesn’t feel overthought. It just feels like it was meant to be. And I think that’s why we’ve been reaching for it again and again since the first samples arrived. 📸 @amelia_p_photography

Making clothes is a lot like jazz. Let me explain. Creative work comes from making new combinations and connections out of existing parts. We draw on different influences to create something new, much like a jazz band. Each player listens closely, responding and improvising in real time. Nothing exists in isolation. Originality isn’t about starting from nothing, but about re-working, re-mixing, and building on what came before. This isn’t a new concept though. Even the great painters of the 16th century weren’t working in isolation. They studied earlier drawings, classical sculpture, religious iconography, and Greek mythology. They borrowed compositions, reinterpreted themes, and refined techniques passed down through workshops and apprenticeships. What we now call “masterpieces” were part of an ongoing dialogue with history. They weren’t inventing from nothing, they were responding to what came before them. That’s how culture has always moved forward. Everyone riffs off each other (but hopefully not ripping off each other). Referencing is a conversation. Copying is theft. The aim isn’t to duplicate what exists, but to transform it and to add something personal and considered. I like the idea of being part of a lineage. It makes what we do feel connected, not just to the past, but hopefully to the future as well. Making clothes is a lot like jazz. In a jazz band, one musician plays a phrase and another responds. A rhythm shifts, a melody bends, someone picks up a lick and pushes it somewhere new. The music evolves in real time. Each player reacts, building on what’s just been played. Every note is shaped by what came before it, and by the musician’s instinct in that moment. To celebrate this concept, we worked with @max_kisman , to design a label for Batch No.23. This idea of riffing — by listening, responding, and reshaping — became the starting point for our new limited edition label. Paying homage to the chaotic creative process.  Batch No.23 will launch this Friday. @amelia_p_photography

This is our Easy Shirt - a very small Batch of shirts we made late last year and sold on Friday to our newsletter subscribers. They’re made from a beautiful Japanese flannel, packed with character and 100% brushed cotton. Although they’re now sold out, we’ll be making more shirts this year with some very special Japanese fabrics. To find out more, it’s best to join our newsletter via the link in our bio. 📸 by @amelia_p_photography ft @itsasally & @rudie_rue @kingsleywaltersstudio