A Treasure to Discover

The story of Lumb’s Golden Bale dates back more than a century, long before the advent of global air travel. Joseph Lumb and Sons Huddersfield developed an internationally reputation as processors of the world’s finest quality yarn. Lumb’s buyers scoured the Australian wool auctions for bales of extra fine merino fibre of exceptional quality. Each year’s clip of the choicest parts of selected fleeces was segregated by Lumb’s skilled sorters for spinning into fine yarn of the highest quality. Only fabrics woven from these singular yarns were designated “Lumb’s Golden Bale”.

Today, Lumb’s Golden Bale is the exclusive, flagship collection of H Lesser. Fleeces of the finest Australian and Tasmanian merino are still handpicked and inspected by the most talented and experienced buyers in Huddersfield, and H Lesser continues to insist on the highest levels of production and quality control, from spinning to weaving to critical final finishing.

One simple reason H Lesser acquired its incomparable reputation among Savile Row tailors as the proverbial ‘Rolls Royce’ of cloth, is its insistence on the highest quality raw materials like the singular yarn spun of Lumb’s Golden Bale, and that its quality control team add additional steps to reinspect each piece delivered to them by the mill, famously rejecting those not meeting their exacting standards.

This rigorous, additional quality control post production and the celebrated Lumb’s Golden Bale selection of the finest raw fibre pre-production assures the unparalleled reputation for excellence.