A textile house, carried forward.

In the nineteenth century, the Polish city of Łódź became the textile capital of Eastern Europe. The looms ran day and night, and the city earned its name: the Manchester of Poland.

It began with a single mill. A white-walled cotton factory — the first of its kind in the city, the building that started an entire industry. Against the red brick that rose around it, it stood apart, and it was known simply by what everyone could see: the white factory.

What followed were the great mill families known as the Cotton Kings. Many were Jewish — people who began as weavers and built an empire of cloth, then turned what they made into hospitals, schools, and homes for their community. By the early twentieth century, Jewish families owned scores of the city's mills.

That world was lost to history. The mills outlasted the families who built them.

We take our name from where it all began. White Factory continues the line — a Jewish family textile house, making the linens, towels, and textiles that fill the hotels, residences, and care homes our community owns and runs today.

The city is gone. The craft is not. Same cloth, same people — carried forward.