JW ANDERSON X Melin Tregwynt

In 2025 we were delighted to be approached by British luxury fashion brand JW ANDERSON to collaborate on a bespoke Welsh blanket, celebrating traditional Welsh craftsmanship. 

JW ANDERSON was founded by designer Jonathan Anderson. Over the years, Jonathan’s designs have had a significant cultural impact, including the cardigan worn by Harry Styles that went viral in 2020, and creating Rihanna's Super Bowl half-time performance outfit in 2023. In 2025 Jonathan was appointed creative director of Dior and was also awarded fashion designer of the year. 

This stunning new Welsh double cloth design was developed as part of the JW ANDERSON brand’s growing homeware collection – a curated range celebrating quality, culture, and craftsmanship to beautifully adorn the home. 

The bespoke JW ANDERSON X Melin Tregwynt blanket features a tapestry-style double cloth design in beautifully bold, rich and warming tones, reminiscent of a cosy Welsh hearth.  

The process of designing a new Welsh double-cloth pattern requires meticulous work, developing ideas that are both visually compelling and technically viable. The key element in the creation of the new design was the brand’s desire to maintain the feel of traditional Welsh tapestry designs, taking inspiration from both Melin Tregwynt patterns and the many other wonderful Welsh vintage tapestry designs. 

The colours chosen for the design were also inspired by vintage Welsh tapestry blankets – particularly the bold colour combinations of the 1960s. Each shade of yarn in the blanket was selected as a Pantone and dyed specifically for the design, as part of the made-to-order yarn spinning process. As with all Welsh double-cloth designs, the final product is created through the fusion of the woven pattern and the interaction of the yarn colours within the design. 

The JW ANDERSON X Melin Tregwynt blanket is woven in 100% Cambrian Mountains wool, a premium wool yarn spun in the UK from fibre grown solely in the Cambrian Mountains region of Wales. This beautiful, worsted yarn has created a wonderfully soft yet durable blanket, with a subtle lustre – echoing the comforting weight of a traditional Welsh tapestry blanket but with the added luxury of a smooth and soft handle. 

The use of Cambrian Mountains wool was key in the development of this collaborative blanket, demonstrating JW ANDERSON’s support in celebrating home-grown – and in this case specifically Welsh-grown – wool, in a wider movement to invigorate the once-vibrant Welsh woolen industry. 

As one of the last remaining working woollen mills in Wales, we at Melin Tregwynt were delighted to be chosen by JW ANDERSON to collaborate on this development and for the blanket to be part of the brand’s innovative new collection. 

Our passion is our craft – keeping the tradition of weaving in Wales alive through our range of traditional and contemporary Welsh textile patterns, all woven at our little mill on the Pembrokeshire coast.  To collaborate with such an illustrious brand as JW ANDERSON helps to increase the visibility and beauty of Welsh double cloth weaving and to help sustain this now endangered craft.  

We are so excited to finally be able to share this exciting collaboration with our community – almost a year in the making. It has been an honour to work with the JW ANDERSON brand in creating this beautiful and unique blanket design, celebrating the legacy of weaving in Wales.  

For more information on the blanket click here.