Ashley Wilde
1,464 fabrics from Ashley Wilde, photographed into our library across 35 collections. Narrow them in the finder, then feel the shortlist at the Heybridge showroom.
- Founded
- 1950
- Where
- Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England
- Known for
- Family-run Hertfordshire house, furnishing fabric since 1950
About Ashley Wilde
Ashley Wilde was established in 1950 by Nick Brodin and is still a family business, now with three generations of the family behind it. It marked its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2025, under chairman Ashley Brodin and chief executive Simon Brodin.
The company works from a purpose-built head office in Hertfordshire of 52,000 square feet, holding the design studio and the distribution centre, with a further 51,000 square feet of storage and distribution elsewhere. Ashley Wilde and KAI are its own fabric brands, and the same in-house studio draws the bedding and accessory collections it makes under licensed names including Laura Ashley, Orla Kiely, Cath Kidston and Sophie Allport.
It has won the Queen's Award for Enterprise, and held the soft furnishings contract for the London 2012 Olympics.
This is a house we reach for when a room needs a plain that behaves. Every Ashley Wilde fabric in our library arrives with its composition, width, weight and country of origin published, and about half carry a Martindale figure as well, some of them rated for severe contract use. That is usually enough to say yes or no to a piece that gets sat on every day before the book comes out of the bag.
Sources, checked in July 2026: ashleywildegroup.com/our-story
The collections we hold.
Every one of these is photographed, tagged and searchable. Open a collection in the finder, or ask us to bring the book.
Essential Weaves Vol 2
110 fabrics
Essential Weaves Vol 1
93 fabrics
Verona Collection
76 fabrics
Darwin Collection
65 fabrics
Leon Collection
62 fabrics
Essential Weaves Vol 3
55 fabrics
Omari Collection
53 fabrics
Portofino Collection
53 fabrics
Palma Collection
42 fabrics
Fabric collections and photography by Ashley Wilde.
The palette, as it actually falls.
Counted across the whole range we hold, not chosen. Each swatch opens the fabric it was taken from.
What it is, and what it will take.
- Mostly polyester
- 87% of the compositions we hold lead on polyester, then cotton
- 140 cm wide
- the usual bolt width here, on 50% of the range
- 14,000 to 60,000 rubs
- Martindale figures published on 524 fabrics, 339 of them rated 40,000 and over
- Pattern
- plain (581), geometric (212), textured (170)
- Made for
- curtains and upholstery (716), curtains (680), upholstery (68)
What this house publishes with every fabric, as a share of the ones we hold:
- What it is made of 78%
- Width 78%
- Pattern repeat 45%
- Rub test 36%
Where we use it.
Reupholstery
Plains and textured weaves with a published rub test, for chairs and sofas going back into daily use.
More on thisCurtains and blinds
Wide drapery cloths and prints that hang well, made up and dressed by our own workroom team.
More on thisCommercial and contract
Part of the range is rated for severe contract upholstery, which is what a bar, a hotel or a care home specification asks for.
More on thisHouses that sit well beside it.
Bring the room, we will bring the books.
Send a photograph and a rough size and we will reply with a personal quote, using an average price fabric.