Jacquard Fabrics

Tucked away in an industrial park in Lakewood, N.J. is a fabric mill, Jacquard, where many of the high end fabric houses fabrics are woven. Fabrics that are on every designers hot list and every homemakers "must have" list are custom designed and woven here: The mill weaves for the leading fabric houses ã Schumacher, Stroheim & Roman, Brunschwig & Fils, Lee Jofa, Robert Allen, Duralee, Kravet, the list goes on and on. It also does custom weaving and custom made fabrics for the Four Seasons and Marriott hotels and the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Jacquard was founded in Paterson in 1937 as an upscale silk tie manufacturer and, before World War II, moved on to making upholstery fabrics for the automobile industry. Once the war started, it started making uniforms for the troops. After the war, Jacquard diversified into the high end home furnishings industry. Leonard Gliner bought the mill in 1980 and moved the mill from Paterson to Lakewood in 1987, building a 30,000 square foot mill that housed ten old looms. The current mill is now 65,000 square feet and houses 60 computerized looms costing about $300,000 a piece. The fabric design is scanned onto a disk, and then programmed into the loom.