Mekan Textile Blog

What we make

Three families. One standard of quality.

Every product group is engineered, printed and finished in-house, from soft muslins for kitchens and baby textiles to 500 gsm canvas built for heavy-duty use.

Home Textiles

Printed and piece-dyed cotton fabrics for the modern home: curtains, kitchen textiles and aprons.

Cotton curtains printed with meadow flowers at a sunlit window Home Textiles Curtain fabric 100% cotton curtain fabric in Panama and Cotton Poplin, 200-309 gsm, supplied piece-dyed, digitally printed or rotary printed. Made in Türkiye. Stacked woven cotton tea towels Home Textiles Tea towel fabric Tea towel fabric in 100% cotton: Panama 230 and 309 gsm and Cotton Drill 255 gsm, supplied piece-dyed or digitally printed. Absorbent, washable, made in Türkiye. Model wearing a navy pinstriped bib apron Home Textiles Apron fabric Apron fabric in 100% cotton: Cotton Drill 255 gsm and Cotton Canvas 500 gsm, piece-dyed or digitally printed. Drill with the body to carry a pocket all day.

Niche Products

Specialised fabrics the market can't get enough of: heavy double-ply canvas on the shelf in 30 colours, and fine cotton muslin for kitchens and dairies.

Plain cotton canvas tote bag held by its handles Niche Products Cotton canvas 500 gsm Heavy 500 gsm 100% cotton canvas woven from double-ply yarns, in stock in 30 colours. For tote bags, aprons, footwear and upholstery. Fine cotton chef's muslin unrolled from the bolt Niche Products Muslin and cheesecloth 100% cotton chef's muslin in 10 m and 50 m rolls, cheesecloth cut to order for dairies and muslin lemon wraps, all certified safe for direct food contact.

Apparel Fabrics

Shirting and trouser fabrics with a natural hand-feel, almost entirely 100% cotton alongside refined blends.

Cotton poplin shirt on a hanger Apparel Fabrics Shirting fabric 18 shirting fabric qualities in five fibre families: 100% cotton, organic cotton, cotton-linen, cotton-elastane and lyocell, 85-165 gsm, 144-158 cm wide. Close-up of grey trousers with a buttoned flap pocket Apparel Fabrics Trouser fabric 18 trouser fabric qualities in six fibre families, from cotton-elastane to cotton-lyocell, linen and wool blends, 170-290 gsm, 145-160 cm wide.

Printed on our own lines

MS JP7 reactive digital printing machine seen from the front Printing Reactive digital printing Reactive digital printing on 100% cotton: dye bonded to the fibre for deep colour, wash fastness and a completely soft hand. Home textiles and apparel. EFI Reggiani EXTRA digital printing machine Printing Pigment digital printing Pigment digital printing on cotton: fast, versatile and resource-efficient, ideal for short runs, rapid sampling and vivid multicolour designs. EFI Reggiani EXTRA. Rotary printing line, printed cloth running out under the gantry with the screen cylinders racked behind it Printing Pigment rotary printing Pigment rotary printing on cotton for high volumes, with consistent, repeatable colour. The workhorse behind large curtain and home textile programmes.