Your home, finished at last.

A message from our founder

From Zambia, for the world: an African brand built on nothing less than the finest work.

I wanted one thing: the curtains I had saved on Pinterest, in my own home. It took weeks of searching, more money than it should have, and in the end I did much of the work myself, because no one could make them the way I had pictured.

That search took me into a curtain factory here in Zambia: heaps of fabric, a small room for quotations, and at the back about twenty Zambian tailors at their machines. The skill was all there. What I wanted to see was a Zambian brand built on it, with the care that makes a client feel looked after from the first message to the last fold.

So I started Thread.

You show us your idea. We visit once, measure every window, put the price on paper, and take it from there: made to measure, hung level, steamed and dressed fold by fold, and refreshed again six months later. You don't chase us, and you don't lift a finger. The day we leave, you should look up and think: that is exactly what I wanted.

The name holds two things. My grandmother, Victoria, whose name I carry, stitched carpets from balls of thread she bought herself and sold them; she showed me that a skill done well becomes a living. And thread is what holds every curtain together.

Our skill is a gift from God, and our work is for Him. When the Tabernacle was built, He filled Bezalel and his craftsmen with skill to weave its curtains. That is the standard we work to.

Today we dress homes and offices. Next come hotels, homes beyond our borders, and a studio where clients and designers bring their ideas and watch them made.

Ready for your curtain call.