We serve · Corporate, government & institutional
Contract upholstery, drapery and staff uniforms, supplied the way a fit-out schedule needs them: an abrasion band you can write into the specification, a stated fire position, a shade reference on record, and a route back to the same cloth two years after handover.
Specification
A designer specifying a reception, a boardroom and eighty task chairs is not buying fabric. They are filling in a schedule, and every empty cell in that schedule is a question they will be asked at sign-off. The three that come up first are abrasion, fire, and whether the cloth can be got again.
Abrasion is measured by the Martindale method. A circular specimen is rubbed against a standard abradant in a widening figure-of-eight until two threads break; the rub count at that point is the figure quoted. ISO 12947-2 is the test that determines specimen breakdown, and the bands below are how the resulting number is normally read.
Treat a rub count as a comparative indicator of wear, not a warranty. It says nothing about pilling, seam slippage, soiling or how the colour will hold under a south-facing window. Those are separate questions, and they belong in the schedule too.
| Rubs Typical industry range | Classification | Where the band is normally specified |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 10,000 | Decorative | Scatter cushions, headboard panels, occasional pieces that are looked at rather than sat on. |
| 10,000-20,000 | Light domestic | Executive office seating used by one person, a director's sofa, a quiet room. |
| 20,000-25,000 | General domestic | Meeting-room chairs and breakout seating on a normal working floor. |
| 25,000-30,000 | Heavy domestic | Open-plan task seating, canteen and touchdown areas, training rooms. |
| 30,000 and above | Commercial / contract | Reception and lobby seating, waiting areas, shared desks, anywhere the public sits. |
Typical industry range. Exact specification confirmed at sampling.
Below is the attribute list a fit-out schedule normally asks for. Where the value reads On request, it is because Paragon has no documented figure published for it: the figure is established for the cloth you select and confirmed in writing with your quotation and sample. We would rather leave the cell honest than fill it in.
| Composition | On request |
|---|---|
| Fabric weight (g/m²) | On request |
| Usable width | On request |
| Pattern repeat | On request |
| Martindale abrasion (ISO 12947-2) | On request |
| Pilling resistance | On request |
| Colour fastness to light | On request |
| Colour fastness to rubbing | On request |
| Seam slippage | On request |
| Fire performance | FR treatment available on request: treatment and standard confirmed per project. |
| Colours | White and cream from stock. Other shades matched to a Pantone reference on order. |
| Payment terms | 30% advance, 70% before pick-up. |
FR treatment available on request: treatment and standard confirmed per project. Tell us the standard your building control officer or fire consultant is working to, and whether the requirement sits on the fabric alone or on the fabric-and-filling composite, and we will answer against that specification rather than against a generic claim. We do not publish a fire rating on this website.
Window treatments
Offices get window treatments wrong in a predictable way: the fabric is chosen from a sample the size of a postcard, and nobody checks what it does to daylight at desk level. Sheers control glare on screens without killing the view; a lined or interlined curtain controls heat and sound in a boardroom. Most floors need both, on the same track.
Fullness, drop, heading and stack-back are set from a site measure, not from a drawing, tracks are rarely where the drawing says they are, and a 10 mm error at the pole is a visible error at the hem. Give us the measured track length, the finished drop, the heading you want and whether the curtain returns to the wall.
Shade, repeat and re-order
Two things break a fit-out after the fabric is approved. The first is shade variation between rolls, which shows up when two chairs from different batches end up side by side in the same meeting room. The second is the re-order: a chair is damaged, the floor is extended, and the cloth on the schedule has to be found again.
Both are managed the same way, by paperwork agreed before production, not by hope afterwards. What we ask you to agree at order:
We will not promise that cloth woven a year from now will match cloth woven today. No honest mill will. What we will do is hold the reference, tell you what batch you are being sent, and let you check it against your own retained sample before it goes on a chair.
When every stage is owned, consistency becomes a promise, not a hope. Paragon Textile Company
Sourcing, weaving and knitting, finishing and stitching sit in-house. That is the whole reason we can tell you which batch a delivery came from, and the reason a second order has a chance of matching the first.
Staff uniforms & workwear
Reception and front-of-house, facilities and housekeeping, security, drivers, canteen staff, on-site clinic staff: most offices dress more people than they expect to, and usually buy those garments from four different places. They can come from one.
Practical things worth deciding early: a size set with fit samples in the two extreme sizes before the bulk is cut; whether branding is embroidered, woven into a label or heat-applied; and how the re-order for a new joiner in month seven is going to work. Paragon's documented workwear line is medical, scrub sets and wrinkle-resistant doctor lab coats, and the same cutting and stitching applies to corporate garments made to your pattern.
Government, embassies & institutions
Public-sector and diplomatic buyers do not buy from a brochure. They issue a technical schedule and expect an answer against every line of it. That suits us: send the specification and we will respond line by line, marking each item as met, offered as an alternative with the difference stated, or not offered at all.
Send the technical schedule, the bill of quantities and the sample requirement. We will quote against it and tell you plainly where we cannot meet a clause, rather than answering “compliant” to everything and arguing about it at inspection.
For a specified item we work to an approved sample. The sample is what the delivery is measured against, and it is the only definition of the order that matters once production starts.
Registration, tax and firm particulars required by a tender are supplied with the submission itself. We do not publish them on this website, and we do not claim approvals, marks or standards we do not hold.
Marks are shown with the permission of the organisation named, and imply no endorsement or preferred-supplier status. Further references are available on request. References
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Give us the areas, the quantities in running metres or in pieces, the abrasion band the specification calls for, the fire position you need to satisfy, and the shade reference if one has already been approved. If the specification is not written yet, tell us the room and its traffic and we will propose one.
