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Vintage Fabric Bundles
At Vintage Fabric I sell fabric by the metre as well as pre-used curtains, I often reuse and recycle beautiful old curtains, cleaning and trimming faded parts, doing this I find myself with plenty of smaller offcuts which can have hundreds of uses. Patchwork and quilting, craft projects, rug making, smaller interiors work like cushion…
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1970’s Crimplene Flower Power Shift Dress
What an amazing job by Sallyanne. With just one yard of vintage 1970s crimplene fabric and using one of her grandmothers 1960s patterns, she has made this iconic shift dress, fully lined with lace edging too. It is so satisfying to see the fabric I have unearthed being put to such good use.
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Chair Upholstery – What People make with Vintage Fabric.
Vintage 1950s Sanderson linen union fabric ‘lytton’ has been used to cover two vintage chairs. Sara took weeks re-building and covering these chairs at her upholstery class. What a brilliant job she has done. Linen union fabric is a blend of linen and cotton, making it very strong and durable, so ideal for upholstery work.…
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The Occasion is Now
An occasional blog – and the occasion is now! It’s a fact that posting on Instagram has somewhat undermined my impulse to write a blog but I know that quite a lot of my readers aren’t social media followers and therefore can miss out on my news – apologies. And there is, in fact, quite…
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Sanderson – Mid Century Fabric
Arthur Sanderson and sons fabric have been in production for many years. Opening in 1860, making wallpaper , after a few years in the early 1990s, they began producing furnishing fabric. They are still in production, bringing out new designs as well as the ever popular traditional designs. In the early 2000s Sanderson reprinted several…
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Morris & Co Textiles and The Red House
The Red House is an important Arts and Crafts building in Bexleyheath, Southeast London. Designed in 1859 by architect Philip Webb as a home for William Morris it was completed in 1860. Although Webb was the architect it was known as Morris’s ‘brainchild’ photo by Ethan Doyle White Unable to find suitable textiles and furnishings…
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Birds and Animals in William Morris Designs
William Morris (1834-1896) is regarded by some as the greatest designer and one of the most outstanding figures of the Arts and Crafts Movement, this group of artists and craftsmen set up to provide beautiful, handcrafted products and furnishings for the home. Morris is much quoted as saying “Have nothing in your houses that you…
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The Art of John Piper in Fabric and Textiles.
John Piper (1903–1992) is one of the most significant British artists of the twentieth-century. An official war artist during the 2nd world war, he came to prominence soon after, known for paintings, tapestries and designing large scale glass windows, such as those in Liverpool and Coventry Cathedrals. The ‘rerados’ tapestry in Chichester Cathedral 1966 Many…
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The History of Paisley Fabric
Paisley is a design that is many hundreds of years old and can be traced back to ancient Persia, now Iran. The fashion for using the pattern spread to many other Asian and Indian countries over the following centuries and it was in the Moghul period between the years 1526-1764 that it became the…
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