GLASGOW, Scotland —Voyage brand, founded by Ian Dykes in 1998 begins 2017 with 75 employees and exports 30 percent of its production to 30 countries with $20 million in sales. Voyage continues to grow 10 percent a year, Dykes says. He is actively  looking for regional partners on a 50/50 basis in the USA and is currently working out a deal in China and the Middle East for a partner to take on the collection. Dykes buys woven fabrics from Europe and Asia and jacquards from small commission weavers in Italy that you never heard of before, and digitally prints 16,000 meters a week in Glasgow as a converter. He also commission weaves linen base cloth in the UK. Dykes buys velvets from a Turkish mill. He covers his furniture and sells piecegoods to the likes of John Lewis in the UK as well as finished cushions, lampshades, and non-woven wallcoverings. It’s a complete coordinated home furnishings and furniture collection presented in a thick catalog every year. “We have six designers on staff producing our original designs in watercolors. “We don’t buy designs on the outside, preferring to produce our own ranges,” he says. “I shop MoOD every year, go to Heimtextil and Proposte. I go to China every three years. The market hasn’t changed that much in China with more wholesalers than ever exhibiting at the Intertextile show there.”