Milliken is excited to announce its event guide for Clerkenwell Design Week 2026.
Make the Milliken showroom a true highlight of Clerkenwell Design Week. Join us as we unveil show‑stopping new collections, celebrate 40 years of UK manufacturing, experience Reuse in action and hear from our headline speakers.
We’d love you to be part of it — book your slots now.
We hope to see you at CDW2026.
11:00–12:00
CREATIVE MENDING AND REPAIR WORKSHOP WITH
STUDIO ISABEL FLETCHER
Isabel Fletcher is a textile artist based in London. Each session opens up collective making as a tool for team building, mindfulness, and wellbeing, while also addressing themes of sustainability and upcycling.
Discover how textile waste can be used as the starting point for mending and repair to extend the life of cherished garments and textile possessions. Exploring varied appliqué, patching and couching techniques, to fabric button-making, the skills learnt will demonstrate how to incorporate waste into creative upcycling.
Bring an item in need of repair / upcycling or practice on fabric provided if you would prefer to learn the techniques first.
12:30–14:00
GET AHEAD, STAY AHEAD WITH REN DECHERNEY
As sustainability expectations rise, designers need data they can trust.
Join Ren DeCherney, Director of Built Environment at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, as she explores how Cradle to Cradle Certified® supports circular design, material health and carbon reduction in the built environment.
This talk will share practical insights into the updated certification framework, why circularity matters now, and how designers can specify products that are healthy, circular and equitable — without adding complexity to their workflow.
14.30-15.30
APPLIQUE TOTE BAG WORKSHOP WITH STUDIO
ISABEL FLETCHER
Isabel Fletcher is a textile artist based in London. Each session opens up collective making as a tool for team building, mindfulness, and wellbeing, while also addressing themes of sustainability and upcycling.
Elevate an ordinary tote bag into a stylish and sustainable holdall using decorative waste textiles and intricate hand embroidery techniques.
Participants to bring their own tote bag or use a Milliken bag supplied.
18.30-19.30
MARY PORTAS IN CONVERSATION
WITH KATIE TREGGIDEN; REUSE REFRAMED
Businesswoman, broadcaster, author and activist Mary Portas OBE made her name creating change. Katie Treggiden is an author, journalist and communications strategist on a mission to share true stories of imperfect progress towards genuine sustainability.
The two will be in conversation discussing what the commercial interiors sector can learn from fashion and retail when it comes to reuse, and much more…
Guests arrive from 18:00 / Interview 18:30–19:30
Tickets available soon.
12.30-14.00
DESIGNING FOR NEUROINCLUSIVE WORKSPACES CPD AND
CREATIVE WORKSHOP
Join us on a learning journey as we explore Designing for NeuroInclusive Workspaces in our RIBA-approved CPD, then put theory into practice in a hands-on creative workshop led by the Milliken design team.
Learn, make, test ideas together — and see how inclusive design thinking translates into real spaces.
Lunch included.
14.30-16.00
LINO PRINTING WORKSHOP WITH
LAVENDER PRINT SCHOOL
Carve it. Ink it. Print it.
A beginner-friendly lino print workshop where everyone’s included — creating repeat patterns that echo the linework, texture and geometry running through our latest collections Open Studio and Quiet Statement.
11.00-12.00
THE JOURNEY TO WELL PLATINUM — A RIBA CPD
SHOWROOM TOUR
Step inside the Milliken showroom — the only WELL Certifi ed Platinum showroom in Clerkenwell — for an inspiring behind the scenes tour. Enjoy one hour of RIBA approved CPD as we share our real world journey to WELL certification, insights, challenges and all, hosted by one of our in-house WELL APs.
Insightful, practical and not to be missed.
15.30-17.00
‘STITCH IT, WEAR IT’ EMBROIDERY / SIP & SEW
WORKSHOP
Sip & Sew was born from a love of modern embroidery and the belief that stitching isn’t old fashioned — it’s creative, social and relevant.
Founded by Katy Horwood after a textiles degree and 15 years in fashion, specialising in customisation, Sip & Sew is about sharing the joy of thread, fabric and learning a new skill — one stitch at a time.