Tag: vintage fabric
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What People Make with the Fabric I sell – Lana Sevin’s Teddy Bears
Lana Sevin Graduated as Garment Designer and Dressmaker – sewing and craft being almost life time experience.She is passionate about reproduction of vintage teddy bears making and refurbishing them using velvet and mohair and embellishing them with vintage fabric. The jointed velvet teddy-rabbit below is called Albino and has ears and clothes made out of…
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What People make with the Fabric I sell – Sadie Ruben, Maid in the Forest
Danish sculptor and textile artist Sadie Ruben makes one of a kind handmade girl’s dresses for Maid in the Forest. Her dresses are unique pieces of artwork, mixing colours and textures unlike anything you will find in the mass market. These inside-out dresses often have unfinished edges, top-stitching and others unique details. Sadie uses vintage fabrics…
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What People make with the Fabric I Sell – Vicky Trainor, Vintage Inspired Textile Designs.
Vicky Trainor is a textiles, surface designer and craft maker who makes a variety of vintage inspired stationery from her studio. She works with brides, tea ladies, photographers, businesses, commercial greeting card companies and creative groups. This lovely cushion brooch uses a variety of Liberty cotton lawn fabrics, such as found in these Liberty fabric…
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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 – Beate’s Sofa
Beate from Belgium found some out of print Crowson fabric in my vintage fabric shop. Her favourite sofa needed recovering and she had been finding it difficult to find the right match. Originally a large pair of curtains, the fabric was still in excellent condition and the design ‘royal palladio’ happened to be in the…
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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 – Carrie Jean Lavender Bags
Carrie Jean makes lovely (home grown) lavender cushions in a wide range of vintage fabrics with either cashmere, angora wool, velvet or stripe ticking on the reverse. The cushions pictured here are made with a vintage viyella fabric that Carrie Jean purchased from me on one side and a lovely muted purple cashmere which picks up the exact shade…
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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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What people make with the fabric I sell – William Morris Cushions
These beautiful cushions were made by Marie Goldstaw of William Morris Cushions. Marie has been buying pieces of fabric from my ebay shop for a while now and I often wondered what the finished products would be like, lovely aren’t they? William Morris linen in green Chrysanthemum design. Batchelors Buttons from Sanderson. Marshwood a design…
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What People Make with my Fabric – Caz’s Ottoman
It is such a buzz knowing what people do with the vintage fabric pieces I sell to them. Recently a friend from Ross-on-Wye bought a piece of William Morris linen fabric from my ebay store vintage fabric and curtains. She had no idea it was me, just that is was from someone fairly local. I…
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