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My Vintage Fabric Stash
Bundles of fabric from my collection.This one include several spotted fabrics, the green in silk, the navy rayon and the bottom one cotton. 1940’s fabrics inc early Liberty silk and 50’s crepe.  The one below has some lovely pieces of 1940’s rayon and cotton, French toile and old Liberty checked silk.  This pile…
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What People Make with the Fabric I sell- Gerda Bags
Unique hand made bags from Gerda Bags, who sell from their Etsy shop and Folksy shop .. As well as unusual bags, Gerda makes bunting, glasses cases, pencil cases and purses, all beautifully finished. It was a lovely surprise to be browsing her facebook page to find this slouchy tote bag made using cotton fabric she…
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Ideas for using Vintage Fabric – Pink Shot Silk & Cotton Dupioni.
This vintage late 1930’s early 40’s pink dress making shot fabric has a darker pink slub cotton one side and satin-like silk dupioni on the right side (though each side could be used uppermost). Wonderful stuff which is fairly heavy and could be used in many different ways.. It would make a lovely long full skirted…
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What People make with the Fabric I Sell – Jo’s Bold Dahlia Print Blind
Jo from Valhalla Interiors & Vintage bought this bold cotton interiors fabric from me recently to make a blind for her bathroom. Valhalla Interiors provide a traditional upholstery service making made to measure curtains, cushions and blinds as well as up-cycling painted furniture in unusual ways As well as their facebook page , they have a great pinterest page…
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What People Make with the Fabric I Sell – Shot Silk Outfit by Kitty Lou
Kitty Lou bought some vintage tartan check shot silk from me and kindly sent photos of the finished outfit..fantastic.  She collects 1940’s vintage sewing patterns and is a seamstress herself too, making reproduction clothing with original patterns. Check out her facebook page it is really worth seeing. Kitty Lous’s authentic outfit, reminded me of…
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What people make with the fabric I sell.. Vintage Clothing by Vincent and Valerie
Take a look at the clothes by Vincent and Valerie, who produce made to order & bespoke clothing. They have a great facebook page, showing the items they make, patterns plus photos and links from 1940’s and 1950’s. Unique wearable items are made using vintage fabric and patterns, These purple pyjamas were made from 1960’s…
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What People make with the Fabric I sell – Bay Vintage Home
Diane of Bay Vintage Home has a passion for taking the crafts and treasures of earlier times and creating unique home wares that are relevant to today to be valued and cherished by another generation. In doing so she is continuing the traditional crafts of her grandmother and mother. She makes wonderful cushions using vintage fabric which…
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Taking Photographs of Vintage Fabric with Caz Holbrook
Caz Holbrook runs her photography business Caz Holbrook Photography from her home town of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. Although specializing in wedding photography she will turn her hand to anything, producing interesting, often unusual images. I love her informal children’s portraits taken in the Forest of Dean and the bands at Ross Rocks. We were so pleased…
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Vintage Fabric in The Guardian Online
How exciting..a mention in the Guardian. The online ‘small business section’ of the newspaper has some interesting and helpful articles from other small businesses. It has been running a competition on best practices and my entry in the efficiency section was accepted for publication. Here is a link to the full article. Efficiency:Vintage Fabric Website Ebay…
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What People Make with the Fabric I sell – Francesca’s Vintage Lingerie
I had some silky flesh pink rayon from the 1930’s or 40’s for sale in my ebay shop. The fabric was the narrow 35″ width common in older fabrics and felt like matt crepe silk, the type of stuff that underwear and petticoats were made of before the second world war. This lovely fabric was listed as imperfect…
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