Promotional sale on newly arrived Jacquards!

What a better way to start your projects than with great savings on these gorgeous fabrics! You have heard of the very exclusive Jacquard weave linen fabrics. Silky and durable, this fabric is on the crafters most wanted list any time of year. Jacquards, to some better known as Damask fabrics, are made by using…

I am thrilled to email you about the new fabric shipment that has just arrived. IL020 – 3.5 ounces a yard 100% linen is one of the finest linen fabrics available in the world and it is here just in time for your summer projects. IL020, better known as Handkerchief linen, has an incredibly gentle…

Get the heaviest linen fabric yet and get it today while the promotion deal applies! Requests have been pouring in to add an even heavier fabric to the store selection and this long awaited super heavy fabric is finally available. 100% linen and 8 ounces a yard – IL090 is the answer to the heaviest…

A glance into the past. Patchwork has been known for centuries. It has been used together with other methods to create clothing and home décor. Some of the oldest patchwork pieces are dated as long as 3000 years ago. (I bet it was linen, that lasted that long 🙂 ). However the technique itself started…

IL020 -3.5 ounces a yard 100% linen is one of the finest linen fabrics available in the world and it is here now, just in time for your spring projects. IL020, better known as Handkerchief linen, has an incredibly gentle hand, is woven using fine, long staple threads and has very few slubs. The finesse…

Have you heard of our Doggie Bag Section? If you haven’t yet discovered this little oasis for bargain aficionados, let me point the way to additional savings on all in stock fabrics! Regular stock fabrics – sold right on the next page at regular price – here in the Doggie Bag Section are sold at…

Are you planning to attend a Renaissance re-enactment? If so, you should know a bit about Renaissance dress. A lot of clothing, during the Renaissance period, revolved around the use of linen. In the early part of the sixteenth century, dress was actually similar to medieval times. Early Renaissance women often wore a linen chemise….

Lovely Linen: A Guide for Sewing this Natural Fabric Dressy or casual, for a day at the office or a day on the boardwalk, garments made of natural linen are comfortable, versatile, and attractive. Natural linen has long been a fashionable choice for people wanting an easy-care, go-everywhere fabric. A linen dress or suit is…

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Petticoats By Kass Mc Gann History Possibly the most ubiquitous female garment in every time period is the skirt. Allied so closely to femininity, “skirt” became a slang term for women in the 1930s. But it was not always so. At its beginning, the word “skirt” didn’t refer to a female garment at all. The…

By Lisette BC Abbott Linen. The word alone can be intimidating if you’re not a seamstress or tailor. It conjures up exotic locales, perhaps with the ocean’s waves lapping at the coastline, while the sun brilliantly illuminates the pearlescent white caps of the waves. Or, at least that what it does for me. I come…

By Lisette BC Abbott Let me ask you a question: what do you think of when you’re dressing in the morning? Do you think of whether or not your outfit matches? Or whether or not it becomes you? Or whether or not you’d like to lose some weight so you can wear a smaller size?…

By Masha Karpushina To freely explore the oceans of the past, tell the story of vast forgotten cultures, filter the richness of ancient knowledge through my own vision, to introduce myself to intricate delicacies of historical detail, which on any other occasion would have remained closed- feels tempting. By all means, bear with me, as…

Is it true that you can’t make historically accurate garments that fit a modern body? That’s exactly what I asked a historical specialist Kass Mc Gann and this is what she had to say : Once upon a time, when I first got interested in historical clothing, someone told me that you couldn’t copy existing…