Category: Ideas for using vintage fabric
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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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Wool fabric – for cold weather.
Clothing made from wool fabric has always been considered the best for wearing in cold weather, it traps heat and will prevent the body from cooling. Wool absorbs moisture, but stays warmer than many other fabrics, it is also inherently flame retardant. So a good choice for clothing when the weather gets colder. A lovely soft…
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Vintage Fabric – Updating the Website..
Time for the annual update of Vintage Fabric’s website.. The site has useful and interesting links for anyone keen on fabric, sewing and interiors. As well as information about us and our blog, it has links to our ebay shop ‘vintage fabric and curtains’, a page showing all the Sanderson fabric we have in stock…
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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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Ideas for using Vintage Fabric – Patchwork Chairs
It take relatively little fabric to cover a chair so can be an inexpensive way of updating your living space if you have the time and patience. One of my first ever upholstery projects was covering an old wooden chair in Laura Ashley patchwork pieces for our first flat in the 1970’s.. I still have that chair…
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Ideas for Using Vintage Fabric – 1950’s Style Striped Dresses
I always loved the dresses my mum wore in the summer when I was little. The ones I remember most were striped, with full skirts and a fitted bodice, sometimes the stripes would be horizontal on the skirt and vertical on the bodice. Here’s our family in 1958, with Mum in one of her striped…
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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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