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Write for Tweed Yard
We publish outside contributors who know their way around cloth. Weavers, menders, tailors, collectors and careful amateurs are all welcome if the article teaches the reader something specific.
What we would like to read
- How a particular British or Irish cloth is made, and how to recognise it
- Repairs in detail: elbow patches, relining, replacing a pocket, hem and cuff fixes, reweaving
- Caring for specific garments such as waxed jackets, wool overcoats, knitwear and flat caps
- Wool in practice: what fibre, yarn and weight mean for how a garment wears
- Reading old clothes: labels, construction, dating and what alters well
- Regional textile history, with sources we can check
- Honest buying guidance that teaches the reader how to judge a garment for themselves
What we will turn down
- Fast fashion roundups and "top ten" lists built around affiliate links
- Anything about gambling, adult services, pharmaceuticals, crypto or payday loans
- Thin product pages presented as articles, and text written for search engines first
- Unsourced claims about sustainability, health benefits or "the best" anything
- Machine-generated or spun copy, and articles already published somewhere else
The practical rules
| Length | Usually 900 to 1,500 words. A short, useful piece beats a long padded one. |
|---|---|
| Original work | It must be your own, unpublished elsewhere, and yours to give us the right to publish. Do not send AI output as your own writing. |
| Facts | Link to the source for any figure, rule or date. We check them, and may ask you to show where something came from. |
| Disclosure | Tell us about any commercial connection to what you mention, including your employer, clients and payment. Sponsored or commercially connected pieces are labelled as such, and that label is not negotiable. |
| Links | Up to two relevant, descriptive links to pages that help the reader. We can edit or remove any link. |
| Pictures | Your own, or properly licensed with the details supplied. No hotlinks. |
| Editing | We edit for clarity and house style (British English), and we show you any substantial changes before publishing. |
How to pitch
Email [email protected] with "Article pitch" in the subject line. Tell us in a few lines:
- A working title and the question your article answers.
- Why you are the person to write it, and any commercial connection.
- One or two samples of your writing, or a link to them.
Please pitch before writing the whole thing, since we may already be working on the subject. If a piece does not suit us, we will try to say why. It helps to read a couple of our articles first, such as the darning guide, to see the level of practical detail we are after.