About Beautiful Silks & Naturals

Beautiful Silks and Naturals was founded by Marion Gorr who started trading textiles in the 1980’s. Her family tradition in textiles goes back a while.  Her mother was a professional dressmaker and her grandmother, Annie Wright practised fine needlework, crochet, lacemaking and dressmaking.  This instilled a love of the cloth and thread was inculcated as an important part of life.

Marion continues to act as a Senior Consultant to the business but most of the time you’ll find her painting in her Botanical studio or in her beautiful garden three hours

In 2025 Beautiful Silks was bought by Jillian Chitty and Sarah Bailey-Harper who share the same passion with Marion for silks, natural fabrics and all their wonders.  They relocated the business from Melborne, Australia to Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), New Zealand.

Both Jillian and Sarah have a background in textiles working for many years together in film, firstly in the Costume department then in the Furnishings department.

Jillian started her career in fashion as a skilled pattern maker, cutter and garment maker before moving to the world of film.  Here Jillian enjoyed sourcing and working with wide scope of textiles and materials pushing the boundries of what can be done with them.

Sarah’s background is in dyeing, screen printing and the art finishing of textiles.

Together we share Marion’s enthusiasm for beautiful cloth.  These collections are now shared with you. Every time we travel to see what’s being produced we pick the very best products of pure and natural fibre based textiles, you get to share the wonder of this chain of events. The fibre is produced, sold to the fibre cleaners, cleaned, sent to the spinning mill, then woven or knitted into cloth that feels just amazing on your skin.

Many of our products are organic, silk is grown in pesticide free areas (due to the sensitivity of the silkworm to pesticides). When you buy from us, you are purchasing product that has been seen in the factiory, we have often met the people who own and work in the factories and small workshops we buy from.

We are situated in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) New Zealand.

Workshops: We offer workshops from time to time with incredible textile artists and specialists who can impart their skills and knowledge to small classes. These are always highly anticipated workshops the are run over a weekend – Keep an eye out on social media for these events.

Visits: Apologies, we are not insured for visitors

Beautiful Silks Ltd
4 Fentham Road
Hauraki
Auckland 0622
New Zealand

Phone +64 212030152