Tag: dress making
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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 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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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…
Ali Vintage Fabric 