Philadelphia University‘s Historic Textile Collection houses over 200,000 textile and fashion related objects in a historic midcentury house. Their staff started a Tumblr to share their swatch collection online, ranging from Victorian mill engraved prints to midcentury interiors textiles. They are also on Pinterest. This is a resource worthy of hyperventilation if I’ve ever seen [...]
I first published the Austin Fabric Store Guide on my (now sadly neglected) personal craft blog Dioramarama ages ago, and it was sorely due for an update. So here it is! My ambition is for this to be the first in a series — eventually I hope to have every medium-to-large city in the world [...]
As you might remember I was invited to speak at the Textile Center in Minneapolis during Spring Quilt Market. I yammered on for two hours (!) about blogging professionally and fabric trends, but punctuated the show with lots of giveaways. Becka Rahn, the center’s Education Manager and “WebWeaver” posted a recap of the talk here, [...]
Holly at Decor8 takes us along with her Stoffmarkt Holland‘s stop in Hannover, Germany. She encourages the U.S. to pick up on this idea of a traveling fabric market — I second that motion! (image: holly becker for decor8)
This weekend, I got to go to an opening reception for Austin’s newest independent fabric shop, The Common Thread. It’s primarily an apparel fabric shop, with lots of natural fibers and organic offerings. She has at least one Liberty print, a couple Echino linen blends, oilcloth, baby-leaning fabrics like Minkee and flannel (because Austin Baby [...]
A while back I wrote about my visit to San Francisco’s Urban Burp with Lisa Solomon. Lisa has posted an interview with the vintage fabric shop’s owner Electra on Poppytalk. Electra’s personality really comes through in the text. And finally, we learn the story behind the name!
Nanette, of the wonderful blog Rummage, writes about fabric shopping in the 18th Arrondisement of Paris: Part 1, Part 2. Related: Paris Textile Resources and Fabrics by Fuzzy Galore Fabric Shopping in Paris by Sew Stylish
Karen Barbé wrote a post recently about her visit to the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. The museum has a Textile Gallery, billed as “a new meeting-place for everyone who wants to study textiles and the [techniques involved in] making them.” See her post for more on the fabrics she saw. Sweden has an extremely [...]
Something Fine is doing a European textile research project. She got to visit the Pausa Textile Factory in Germany and browse through its 20,000+ samples. The factory has sat for six years waiting for funding to become a museum after undergoing liquidation in 2002. I hope that funding comes through, because what a mind-blowing resource [...]
Holly of decor8 visited the Hannover Stoffmarkt — an open-air fabric market in Hanover, Germany. It is held four times a year, twice in the spring and twice in the fall. The next one is held the first Sunday in November. Keep an eye on the post’s comments, where readers are linking to other fabric [...]
View Larger Map Leslie’s Crafty Google Map of San Francisco OK, the San Francisco Textile Tour ended up being a little less ambitious than originally planned — I wanted to tour the California School of Professional Fabric Design, but they couldn’t get me in, and I dropped the ball on calling Zoo Ink to see [...]
The second stop on the San Francisco Textile Tour (first stop: Britex) was Urban Burp. I originally learned about it from this post on the Golden Yard and this post on Apartment Therapy. The shop is owned and run by a very friendly woman named Electra Skilandat. She’s a longtime collector of vintage fabrics who [...]
San Francisco was a blast! I met up with longtime blog-friend Lisa Solomon, who agreed to take me around to some fabric stores. She is just the sweetest and most interesting person. It was good to finally meet in person and to talk about blog-inappropriate topics. Our first stop was the legendary Britex Fabrics. I’ve [...]
View Larger Map I was planning to start something like this, but Genevieve of The Golden Yard beat me to it! She started a collaborative Google map listing fabric stores, and anyone with a Google account can make additions to it. Just go here. I added a bunch of independent stores in Austin. It was [...]
Shannon Riffe of RiffeRaff and the Make It blog interned at the organic fabric and wallpaper company Mod Green Pod and visited the New England fabric mill that prints MGP’s fabric. Read all about her visit here. Don’t you just want to hug those rolls of blank (greige) fabric?
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