Well, it’s just turning out to be a British-centric week, isn’t it? Katy of I’m a Ginger Monkey is posting a series on U.K. fabric shops that offer modern, contemporary designer fabrics. Lots of new-to-me shops that will hopefully provide a boost the international sale alerts. The list so far: Backstitch Patch Fabrics The Fabric [...]
Though Japanese fabrics are now widely available in the U.S. and many other countries, there are still plenty of Japanese fabrics and textiles that rarely-to-never exported outside Japan. Last week I featured the Japanese shop Cotton Crayon, which is full of retro prints I’d never seen elsewhere. I found the link through Ayumi’s great blog [...]
As a frequent contributor to True Up’s Vintage Fabric Flickr group, I’m regularly asked where I find my fabrics. The short answer is anywhere and everywhere, but the long answer is anywhere from Etsy and eBay to yard and estate sales to thrift stores and antique dealers (both online and off). Simply stated, there is [...]
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 [...]
The Liberty of London Fabric Source Guide has moved here.
Bonjour! Has Felt Week whetted your apetite for the softer, fuzzier side of fabric? Are you ready to experience wool you could sink your teeth into, if the thought of chewing on this weren’t so weird? Are you wondering why my metaphors always seem to veer off into the culinary? Me too. Never mind that, [...]
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 [...]
It’s easy enough to Google “Amy Butler fabric” and such to find retailers of popular quilting cottons on the internet, but what if you’re looking for Battenburg lace? Ecclesiastical brocade? Pool table felt? Holly recently wrote in to let me know about her bare-bones but awesome site The Fabric List. It’s a database of online [...]
I learned about the Provocraft Yudu Personal Screenprinter today through Stacy Sews. The Yudu is an exposure unit, drying cabinet, and printing table/registration system all in one, and it uses proprietary flat screens and water-based nontoxic inks. It looks like a nice alternative to the Print Gocco (what’s the latest story on those — are [...]
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!
The Boston-area Fabric Place is closing down after 60 years in business. This video, part of the Boston Globe’s story, made me tear up, even though I’ve never been there. Sigh. Seems like quite a loss. How many local independent brick-and-mortar shops and small chains are even left anymore? (via Jenn Ski)
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
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 [...]
Bee Square Fabrics has made the leap from being exclusively on Etsy and is now its own website/shop. Bee Square offers many of the popular contemporary lines from Freespirit/Westminster, Alexander Henry, Michael Miller, and also has a good selection of Japanese fabric. The new store is well-organized and it’s easy to browse by color, print [...]
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