A textile company with just 20 staff has answered a call from Hollywood movie-makers.

Wyedean Weaving, based in Bridgehouse Mill, Haworth, has supplied all the 18th-century-style military trimmings for the costumes in the blockbuster film, Gulliver’s Travels.

Company boss Robin Wright got the call in January 2009 and was told he had four months to complete the job.

He said: “The brief was to put together two armies, 300-strong, half of them in red, half of them in blue, and the Lilliputian army would have a Victorian theme to it. That was pretty much all we had to go on.

“We went into our archive to get some ideas and then we worked with the costume designers at Pinewood to come up with what they wanted.

“We had to produce an epaulette with a Lilliputian design.

“It’s the accoutrements that actually make the costume – without the sashes, epaulettes and braids they’re just a plain jacket.

“This was not new territory for us because we have produced similar products for other big movies.”

The company made the binding for the mummy in the film The Mummy and the accoutrements for the costumes in Master and Commander.