Tag: rayon
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20th Century Rayon Dress Making Fabric
Considered the oldest manufactured fabric, rayon is made from cellulose ( often wood pulp), and thought of as semi-synthetic. There are several different ways of processing the cellulose each producing slightly different fabrics such as viscose, modal, lyocell and tencel. Known as artificial silk when it was first introduced in the late 1800’s early 19o0’s, it…
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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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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 