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First can I say thank you to each and every person who visits here and support my occasional little fabric venture.  You are all just so wonderful to deal with and I feel very lucky to have you all in my fabric orbit xx

I will be out of action now for 5 weeks, returning early September for just a couple of weeks and then I will be off again.  It will be like this until the end of the year.  I will try to have another burst of fabric listings in the next period at home as I still have a serious amount of fabric downsizing to do.  So please keep an eye for those couple of weeks in September.

In the meantime, I will not be on the site at all and can’t pick up any emails sent to me using the email link provided here.  If you have a query, please do email me, but please note I won’t be able to answer your mail until I return.

Thanks everyone!

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I am not going to be able to tell you as much about this fabric as I would like to be able to and for that reason will mark down the price a bit. I am sure there a name for the technique used in created the interesting effect on the fabric face.

It seems to me that a process has been used to fuse a felted-like layer over a base fabric in this stencilled flower effect.

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You see so many silks on this page but I’ve hardly had a chance to showcase my love of woollen fabric.  And it’s a lot of love!  This designer wool woven from the Italian mills is an example.

This weave in undeniably modern, combining as it does some traditional tweed weaves and then the polka dot weave in this colour-reversing noughts and crosses composition.

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I think this linen is very ‘Marant”, at least I had an idea of taking inspiration from this great designer’s jackets and pants when I contemplated this fabric.

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Here is a remnant piece of a glorious Ver@ W@ng silk charmeuse.

This silk is an Italian beauty.

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Ok, the fact that I am listing this fabric means that I am now just reaching for the first fabrics that come to my hand, even if I adore them, rather than sorting into ‘I can part with/I can’t part with’ lots.

This is a designer fabric with a capital “D”, sourced from a sample room of a top NYC designer.

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Now a fabric for lovers of cool tones…

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This fabric – the one on the left in this image –  is a lovely woollen blend fabric from the studio of my favourite local designer who is sadly now winding down her business.

Readers of this website will know that I have picked up some really beautiful fabrics from this studio.  In fact, I understand some shopping may have been done today at one of her very last fabric sales.  Good thing I didn’t know about it.  I might have shopped for more fabric for the sake of nostalgia.  Go figure.

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This lovely silk is a painterly study in blues, from the deep indigo of the foliage and trees at the bottom of the panel to the powder blue of the distant sky and then back to deeper blues of the canopy.

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First there was this…then there was that…Well, it was an internet crash that required me to establish a new connection, and I was offline while that took weeks.  Then I have had extensive work travel and you don’t need to know about the food poisoning.

Late next week I head off on another work trip for 6 weeks and I will try to have a big push on fabrics before then. This will be my work/travel routine for a while, and honestly, I can’t see fabrics in my future much at all now, so there will be heaps up for grabs.  I just won’t have the time to do lots of inspiration images etc with the fabric listings, but there will be great fabric shots!

In the meantime, I have marked down the prices of some fabrics.  Please keep scrolling right down past the non-fabric posts too as some fabric listings are a bit buried now.

And here’s behind the scenes…

Sorry for the lack of posts the last 10 days, but I’m now getting into gear again and will be posting later today and over the next few days.

In the meantime, give me the industrial iron over the coat any day!

Just stumbled on this documentary from 2012; didn’t know you could find it online.  If you love your fashion and haven’t seen this doco it is worth setting aside the hour to watch.

Some Sunday frippery…

All remaining Liberty Art fabrics now $25 a metre

I’m clearing my Liberty Art fabrics…at just $30 a metre.  Liberty lovers will know that the regular price in Australia starts at $45+ and can go as high as $60+.  I’m listing them all in this one post, so dive in and have a look.

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Heads-up…I’m going to be listing a lot of Liberty Art fabrics, hopefully this Friday.  I’ll price them at around $30 a metre I think and I have 10+ to put up.  Until they go up, here’s another great video featuring the design work of the Liberty Art print team.

Another wonderful Dior film.  The work behind some of these clothes is extraordinary.

I love fashion docos, especially the one that go behind the scenes of the couture workrooms.  The advance reviews of ‘Dior and I’ rave about it.  Out soon.

I’m taking some photos of fabrics as I go along and posting to instagram now.  If you want to follow, just click the insta icon/link on the right sidebar.  Also, for those who don’t know, I also provide updates on my Facebook page, link also at the right sidebar.