Category: Ideas for using vintage fabric
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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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Ideas for using Vintage Fabric – Milly Molly Mandy Pink Striped Dress
Did you enjoy Milly Molly Mandy books when you were very young? Popular over almost 80 years, there must be a lot of us around. A series of stories written by Joyce Lankester Brisley between 1928 and 1967 about a busy little girl growing up in a rather idyllic rural English village. The best versions…
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Ideas for using Vintage Fabric – Marilyn Monroe Wiggle Dress
The iconic wiggle dress made famous in the 1950’s by Marilyn Monroe was an the style to be seen in at the time and one that has lasted. So called as it fitted so closely round the legs that it was necessary to wiggle to walk.. Marilyn is seen ablove with her husband Arthur Miller…
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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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1940’s Land Girl’s Rayon Dress Fabric
Wouldn’t this fabric be great as a ‘land girls’ style 40’s summer dress or blouse. The rayon fabric hangs really well and has a design of blue, pink, grey and green flowers on a black trellis background I found a couple of lengths of this fabric from the flea market at Malvern. They were so…
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