![Two yellow spools of yarn](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/about-us-hero.jpg)
About us
Made in England. Born of Rugby.
The Rugby Company is the brainchild of founder and CEO, Jeremy Moore. A keen schoolboy player and achieving county selection, his only regret is not playing longer! Growing up and being schooled in Rugby harboured a lifelong love of the game.
As with most of the great ideas, the lightbulb moment took place in a pub (a pub in Rugby town centre no less). An afternoon drink with an old friend would gain Jeremy a business partner and evolve into the formation of The Rugby Company.
![Machine in action, spinning the fabric](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/themes/therugbyco/public/img/about-us/about-us-machine-in-action.jpg)
![Striped fabric roll](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/themes/therugbyco/public/img/about-us/about-us-striped-fabric-roll.jpg)
Later they would be joined by another friend who would complete the trio of partners and with her background in garment production, springboard the enterprise from an interesting idea, into a tangible reality.
The Rugby Company would celebrate the golden era of the game by studying and reproducing vintage rugby jerseys - each one telling the story of a legendary player. Truly a local endeavour, all Jerseys are manufactured within 30 miles of the fields on which Webb Ellis first picked up the ball and “with a fine disregard for the rules of football”, ran with it!
![Fabric vintage sleeve pattern](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/themes/therugbyco/public/img/about-us/about-us-vintage-sleeve-pattern.jpg)
![Sewing machines](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/themes/therugbyco/public/img/about-us/about-us-machines.jpg)
![The Palmer folded fabric](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/themes/therugbyco/public/img/about-us/about-us-palmer-fabric.jpg)
![Sewing machine worker](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/themes/therugbyco/public/img/about-us/about-us-worker.jpg)
Each garment is carefully researched for historical authenticity before being meticulously recreated by local craftsmen and women. Unlike the mass-produced and scientifically tailored ‘second-skins’ rugby players wear today on international duties, in the last century, not only did the handmade nature of the shirts guarantee each nationality would have a very different form, but each player would sport a jersey with individual characteristics.
![Close up image of Scottish rugby shirt badge](https://www.therugbycompany.co.uk/wp-content/themes/therugbyco/public/img/about-us/about-us-scottish-shirt.jpg)
The Rugby Company commemorates the players who were the trail-blazers, the entertainers and those who shaped the sport into the game today as we know it.
All this because we are born of Rugby.