Things I need to do:-
- Collect a collection of examples of furnishing or fashion fabrics in the following form:
- actual fabric pieces tweed, silk, pile, felt, voile, muslin, glittering - visit furnishing and fabric shops - get small samples - need to get spec of fibre content and origin of fabric
- photocopies from books - see recommended books
'A Woman's Work is Never Done' T-shirt (one-off)
Machine-embroidered organza with metallic thread
Carolyn Corben
UK, 1990
Horse head dress from Sind, Pakistan (Moira Broadbent)
Horse chest band from Sind, Pakistan (Moira Broadbent)
Photo micrographs of typical geosynthetic fabric structures.
Quilts exhibited in the V & A Quilts exhibition Summer 2010
- photographs
- magazine cuttings - Interiors, Elle Decoration, Vogue
- internet
A new handblock-printed range featuring organic cotton from India.
Country Living
New Fabric! P+B Textiles - Wild Thyme
Carolyn Gavin's Wild Thyme is a lively contemporary eco collection, with stylized birds, dots, pods and stars within the main print, which are echoed throughout the collection. Colors are fresh and modern, but not overly bright. This collection is great for quilts, home decor, children's clothing and just about anything else you can imagine. 
New Fabric! Liberty of London - Lantana
Just in from Liberty of London is Lantana, a collection of high quality cotton and wool prints just right for garment sewing. As is the usual with Liberty, the prints are eclectic and modern, with a range of moods from bright modern florals to cosmopolitan navies, blacks, and greys. The Purl Bee
Tweed
New Fabric! Echino Ni-Co Oilcloth
From the ever-popular Echino series, Ni-Co is now available in sturdy, spill-proof, weather-proof oilcloth! Etsuko Furuya designed this contemporary print that gathers disparate objects and tidily places them on a backdrop of natural color. Stamped with dots and stripes, Ni-Co is brimming with youthful energy!
- visit Nostell Priory - are the furnishings original or reproduction? - if reproduction where and by whom were they made?
My sketch book
