Tag: 1940’s
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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1940’s Dayella Fabric from the makers of Viyella.
Dayella was produced by William Hollins of Nottingham the makers of Viyella. It was made especially for children’s wear and although I can’t find the exact constituents I would assume it has a larger precentage of cotton, more like 80% to 20% merino wool, making it harder wearing than Viyella. I recently acquired several pieces…
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What People Make with the Fabic I Sell – Dawn Chorus Designs
Yvette from Dawn Chorus Designs started making cards a couple of years ago, she was trying to find a use for all the vintage fabric and playing cards that she has collected. Initially made them for just family and friends, the positive feedback encouraged her into producing cards to sell. Both cards are made using…
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What People Make with the Fabric I sell – 1940’s Dress
What a great vintage dress.. the accessories finish it off perfectly too. Robin sent this photo of his wife Lynne at a 1940’s weekend at Stoke Bruerne Northamptonshire. Such a lovely setting on the banks of Grand Union canal by the canal centre. The dress was made using a 1940’s dress pattern. The original 1940’s…
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What People Make with the Fabric I Sell – Marie’s Dolls
Marie Lechner from Luxembourg dresses vintage dolls from 1951 to 1985. She collects fabrics which are the closest possible to the original models, and has bought several pieces of viyella from my shop. Viyella a blend of merino wool and cotton was first woven in England in the late 1800’s by William Hollins & Co…
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What people make with the fabric I sell – Gilly Retrouve Antiques
Gilly has a stall at the antiques barn in Long Marston as well as her Retrouve website where she sells vintage finds and things made from her vintage finds. She has used fabrics from my ebay shop and website to make cushions, dress 1940s and 50s dolls and to line purses and kindle cases. She…
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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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