Category: 1960’s / 1970’s
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Weekly Blog – Number 5 – Laura Ashley Patchwork in Ross-on-Wye
I recently bought a huge bag of fabric pieces from someone having a clear out. It was full of small pieces of Laura Ashley fabric from the 1970’s and 80’s. I so enjoyed sorting it all out when I got home. It brought back great memories of my patchwork making days when I was still at college. Living…
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Collier Campbell Designs
On my treasure hunts for vintage fabrics, among my very favourite finds are the vibrant and colourful designs by Collier Campbell who I have admired for many years. The working design partnership of sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell started in the 1960’s producing work for Liberty, Heals, Habitat and many others. They founded their company together in 1979/80. Their…
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Pat Albeck – Textile designer
Pat Albeck has always been a favourite designer of mine, her career began in the 1950’s designing dress making fabric for Horrockses. Her designs influenced by Scandinavian textiles, French and Italian fashion fabrics. By the 1960’s she became well known for designing dress fabric for ‘dolly rockers’ one of the English boutique labels of the 1960’s, very…
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Vintage Jonelle Fabric from John Lewis
The first John Lewis store was opened in London in 1864. An up market store originally selling textiles and fabric, later selling a wide variety of items for the home. They introduced the Jonelle fabric range in 1937, since 2000 the name was dropped in favour of John Lewis. From the late 1940’s onwards they…
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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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Ideas for Using Vintage Fabric – 1960’s Abstract Mini Coat
Do you remember this iconic hairstyle .. a great image from the 1960’s. The photo is set on train line with industrial background, no doubt the train track has disappeared now, but at the time it fitted so well with the abstract furniture and fabric designs popular at the time. The Jean Shrimpton like model has…
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Trevira – the designer fabric of the early 1970’s & what can be made with it.
Trevira, made by Texlene, replaced crimplene as the important fabric in the fashion industry for young designers of the early 1970’s. It was consider ‘the’ fabric of the time, used by well know designers all over the world. It was perfect for the mini shift dresses and a line coats of the time. From the Portuguese…
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What People Make with the Fabric I sell – Sweeney Todd Photoshoot
Robert Fousch a well respected photographer from Atlanta Georgia was looking for fabric to match a corset shown below for a photo shoot of Tim Burton’s movie Sweeney Todd. He came across this vintage 1960’s stretchy black and white pinstripe polyester-crimplene type fabric in my ebay shop . The colour and width of stripe were…
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