Philip Pittack obituary

Cloth merchant who was a repository of knowledge for the British fashion and film industriesThe cloth merchant Philip Pittack began in the rag trade as a teenager crawling beneath the cutting tables of garment factories in the East End of London, stuffing a sack with waste wool and cotton as raw material that could be spun again and otherwise re-used. This was his education in fabrics, rubbing them between thumb and forefinger, exploring weave, testing drape and fray in the hand. In over six dec