Swaffer
466 fabrics from Swaffer, photographed into our library across 5 collections. Narrow them in the finder, then feel the shortlist at the Heybridge showroom.
- Founded
- 1973
- Where
- Peterborough, England
- Known for
- British printed florals and woven furnishing fabrics
About Swaffer
Swaffer started in 1973 with a husband and wife team, Anne and Robert Swaffer, and built its name on British prints. Since 2017 the business has been run by design director Janet Beaney-Smith and sales director Martin Jeffery, who have forty-eight years of service with the firm between them.
The showroom, offices and distribution are all on one site at Westminster Place on Empson Road in Peterborough. Alongside its own collections Swaffer carries the Belgian house Wind, founded by the De Zutter family in 1954.
One thing to know about the trading company. Companies House records the current Swaffer Limited, incorporated in September 2016, as being in a voluntary arrangement, and the older company, incorporated in 1974 and later named Anne and Robert Swaffer Limited, as dissolved in 2018. We hold their books and we mention this only because a customer choosing a fabric is entitled to the same information we have.
Sources, checked in July 2026: swafferfabrics.com/pages/our-story, swafferfabrics.com/pages/our-showroom, Companies House, Companies House
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.
Fabric collections and photography by Swaffer.
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.
- Pattern
- textured (127), plain (98), stripe (57)
- Made for
- curtains and upholstery (255), upholstery (119), curtains (92)
This house does not publish a technical specification with its fabrics online. We take composition, width and rub test off the pattern book for you before anything is ordered.
Houses that sit well beside it.
- KandolaBespoke silks, embroideries and textile wallcoverings
- James BrindleyBespoke prints, embroideries, jacquards and plains
- Zinc Textile1,238 fabrics in the library
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.