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The Final Frontier page 17
Naranjos - Orange Wool Mohair page 14
Sofia page 16
Rockefeller page 15
Brace Yourself page 4
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Swan Lake page 16
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✿✿Animal Kingdom II (picture on the back)
✿✿A Knight in Shining... 56” wide 97% polyester, 3% spandex fairly lightweight Italian jersey which has been printed in a sort of mottled silver, grey and black so it doesn’t really have a pattern it’s just a melange of the said colours in addition to which it has this sort of metallic sheen. An interesting cloth to say the least. REF: CM917
56” (147cm) WIDE
£9.95
✿✿A Life Less Ordinary 60” wide light weight polyester suiting in beige, with a little bit of a surface sheen that keeps it away from being absolutely boring, however it has a nice colour and a nice hand being poly it doesn’t crease easily. REF: CM967
60” (152cm) WIDE
£3.00
✿✿A Rose amongst Thorns
64” (162cm) WIDE
£10.00 per metre
✿✿Ambrose 54” wide cotton in white, with an embroidered circle pattern, also in white. The sizes of the circles are about 3cm or an inch and a half and in between or surrounding the circles are some crochet like work, which of course you can see through. A very expensive Swiss made embroidery anglaise. REF: CM913
54” (137cm) WIDE
£12.95
✿✿Angel delight
Widths as stated
£10.00 per metre
✿✿As Good As If you like viscose dress fabrics and you like a bit of a pattern, then this is the fabric for you. I am biased but I would love a pair of trousers made out of this. It is a super lightweight high twist viscose that doesn’t crease. It has a subtle but interesting blue kaleidoscope print. The label tells me it was made in France. 60” (150cm) WIDE
£8.95 per metre
✿✿A Tangled Web In this case it’s a knitted web, not a woven web. It’s a fashion fabric; that alarms me somewhat, as every fabric made is a fashion fabric. This is fashionable as long as you want it to be, it is a cream acrylic, polyester and wool mix, knitted jersey fabric which has a bit of a bouclé loop on the surface and then this has been lightly brushed. It is very, very soft. And fairly flimsy. But it is rather clever and in addition to all this, it has got an all over rose-like pattern print in pink with a little bit of purple and some dark green sage green in the foliage. There is quite a bit of pattern, and it is rather pretty. REF: CM922
59” (150cm) WIDE
£6.25
✿✿Aye, Aye
60 inch wide poly/viscose trying to imitate silk. This is as soft as a cloth can get, and amongst other things I bet it makes fabulous nighties. It would actually be perfect for harem pants, or a lovely soft blouse. We have it in three colours: a) Black b) Grey c) Stone REF: CM824
REF: CM882
REF: CM866
A slight exaggeration as this did come in with some other fabulous gear, this is a superb 64 inch wide superfine wool gabardine in khaki, fairly special. There is not much of it. REF: CM814
These are two very nice animal prints, they have come at a price, hence the price. The Heffalump is on better quality cloth. a) Heffalump - A charming aqua cotton with different coloured elephants all over it. This really is something special, not to mention really cute. This is 56”/144cm wide b) Dinopaws - A lovely dinosaur novelty print on a grey ground. This is 53”/136cm wide
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
60” wide polyester georgette, in black and cream with an all-over design that looks something a bit like the eyes in a peacock’s tail. The face in an Edward Munch painting, but without the drama. Ultra lightweight and beautifully made. REF: CM899
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£6.50
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✿✿Black Suitings & Dress Fabrics
✿✿Bill Face A 60” (150cm) wide pale blue, cotton rich poly/cotton chambray shirting. Another cloth, which has a bit of a history, probably made locally quite a few years ago, when they were experimenting how to get rid of cotton when it became too expensive. Because as you probably are well aware, chambrays should be all cotton. Nonetheless it’s a very nice cloth, with a nice soft hand. REF: CM963
60” (152cm) WIDE
£4.50
✿✿Black Magic 60“ wide. A very nice quality black heavy cotton shirting/lightweight trousering straight from the Magnificent 7. REF: CM808c 60” (152 cm) WIDE
£6.00 per metre
✿✿Black on Black
As Tears Go By it is the Evening of the Day, I Sit and Watch… For those of us who can remember the era, from which that song came, you may have had a garment made out of this rather fabulous black polyester dress fabric. It is somewhat shiny and definitely made for the posh side of things. A rather beautiful cloth. On the label it says ‘Canadian peach skin’ - it is not a peach skin in my mind but it is nice and soft. REF: CM933
60” (150cm) WIDE
59” (150cm) WIDE
£5.75
Look at Me When I’m Talking to You - Black, heavy polyester and elastane dress fabric. This is perfect for trousers and it would also make skirts, school skirts and trousers. A strong fabric with good stretch. REF: CM491
60” (152cm) WIDE
£ 5.75 per metre
Maypole - 60” wide fairly heavy, very drapey, high twist polyester crepe, not a cheap and nasty crepe, it’s a very expensive one, beautifully made and really will make up well. This has been highly popular with many of you REF: CM381
Lightweight black viscose jersey onto which has been printed a shiny black penny-sized spot in rows across the fabric, it is half drop repeat so it is not in squares. A nice jersey with a bold pattern, which made into the right garment will look rather classy. REF: CM864b
A Tangled Web
60” (152cm) WIDE
£9.95 per metre
Night Owl - 60” wide black viscose/wool/poly suiting with a little bit of interest in the very fine weave. Very wearable. Beautiful cloth. REF: CM957
60” (152cm) WIDE
£4.25 per metre
£7.50 per metre
Out of time - Black - It would also be prudent at this time to tell you of this 60 inch wide black wool worsted suiting, 2% lycra whose wondrous nature I am almost a loss to describe. If you want send for a sample you probably will anyway because of the price but e-by-gum is gradley.
Samples If ordering by post, please send us the reference number and name of the fabric you want plus the following depending on your requirements. Where there are a number of items under a reference please specify your preference; a, b, c, etc. 1-5 samples: please post your request and include a SAE 6-10 samples £2.50 (non-refundable) 11-25 samples £5.00 (non-refundable)
REF: CM842b
60” (152cm) WIDE
£16.75 per metre
The Big Swirl - 58” wide darkest black polyester/Lycra lightweight skirt cloth or trousers for that matter but not jackets, beautifully soft and wonderfully swirly fabric. Quite densely woven polyester crepe suiting. REF: CM822 58” (147 cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
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Blueberry Hill
British Wool Cloth - Harry
British Wool Furnishing d) c) j) f)
Boo! - RED
British Wool Cloth Yorkshire Worsted - A
British Wool Furnishing i) e) g) b)
Boo! - BLUE
British Wool Cloth Yorkshire Worsted - B
✿✿Blueberry Hill 54” wide densely printed viscose in navy blue with an all over, small floral pattern in orange, turquoise, cerise, pale blue and white. Lovely colouring, although there is a slight sporadic blur on the print along one of the edges - this will reduce the width by about 10cm and we have reduced the price to reflect this. REF: CM901
54” (137cm) WIDE
£5.50
✿✿Bold Stripe Now you can either wear this or sit on it. It looks somewhat like a deck chair fabric, in fact made for medium shorts for a famous and expensive outlet. I know this because we had its sister fabric a, year or two back, exactly the same, so I know where it is from. A medium weight, woven cotton twill in a multi-coloured stripe in oranges/fawn/lemon/bit of pink and white. Despite its fairly light weight it is an extremely strong fabric, soft finish so is not pristine or smooth as an ironed poly-cotton very pliable, not stiff in any way. A bit of a blast. REF: CM805b
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.00 per metre
✿✿Boo! If you want something to brighten your day, this might just be it, a colourful and pretty jersey fabric. It is a fine jersey, so although not fully opaque, it will drape very nicely; especially in a top. We have it in two colours. a) Blue b) Red REF: CM978
59” (150cm) WIDE
£4.95 per metre
✿✿British Wool Cloth Sadly, harder to get as the furnishing industry snaps them up and sells them at twice the price. However here we have small amounts of the following: Birds Eye - 60” wide pure worsted wool suiting/jacketing with tiny “bird’s eye” weave. Woven in Yorkshire this stunning wool is even suitable for a light weight coating (used with a good lining) Timeless! REF: CM892
60” (152cm) WIDE
£15.95
Burn Out
Christmas Poly/Cottons
Camomile lawn
Brace Yourself (Picture on the Cover) - 60” wide woollen mouflon coating in dark wine/burgundy. And for those unfamiliar, a mouflon is a coating which has a very light brushed appearance, giving the cloth a little bit more volume, obviously without adding to the weight. A glorious cloth in every respect. REF: CM959
60” (152cm) WIDE
£18.00
Donegal - A 60” wide woollen Donegal tweed in a mixture of red, beige, black, maroon and other odd sundry colours mixed in too form the tweed. Suiting weight, rather than a coat weight. Another beautiful cloth; woven, hand finished entirely in Yorkshire. REF: CM960
60” (152cm) WIDE
£16.00 per metre
Harry - 60” wide black/grey fine herringbone weave, woollen suiting. Another all Yorkshire cloth, which I have seen made up into men’s jackets of the variety that start off at around £500 and finish up in somebody’s sale at £150. Another beautiful cloth. REF: CM961
60” (152cm) WIDE
£16.00 per metre
Lamb - Grey pure new wool jacketing / lightweight coating. It is not a plain flat grey, there is a suggestion of other tones in it. It has the appearance of a sort of flattened lambs wool weave if you will, with an ever so slightly polished finish. Exquisite. REF: CM520e 60” (152cm) WIDE
£16.00 per metre
Yorkshire Worsted - 60” wide wool worsted suitings, Yorkshire cloth through and through. a) Tiny Check - is in an extremely fine, sort of check in black and cream. b) Grey Strip - is almost, a very, very fine crepe weave in black and white. The overall effect of that one is grey. c) 150s - stunning very fine wool in a grey check. REF: CM945
60” (152cm) WIDE
£16.00 per metre
Our Guarantee As long as it has not been cut we will replace or make a refund for anything not to your liking within 14 days delivery of your fabrics. After that we are reasonable too, so please just call us and we will do what we can.
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Christmas Cottons - Holly Cream
Christmas Cottons - Poinsettia
Christmas Cottons - Holly Green
Christmas Cottons Stocking Filler
Christmas Cottons Christmas Eve
Christmas Cottons Happy Holidays
Christmas Cottons Tiny Holly Cream
Christmas Cottons - Holly Rouge
Christmas Cottons The Secret Christmas
Christmas Cottons Tiny Holly Red
Cheesecloth - Mosaic
✿✿British Wool Furnishing These are superb British made 98% wool, 2% nylon, flame retardant, wool furnishing fabrics. Made for places where durability is everything. We have small amounts left in some lovely colours. a) Beige f) Yellow
b) Emerald c) Pale Grey g) Turquoise h) Rust
REF: CM683
54” (137cm) WIDE
d) Navy/Silver e) Red i) Royal Blue j) Red Marl £12.00 per metre
✿✿Burn Out This describes a processes of textiles, a process whereby some parts of a cloth are removed chemically to a pattern, leaving it thickened in places, basically. What has happened in this particular case, is that the thin places are almost a fine net, and the thicker places look like ribbons that have been swirled and twirled and left to lie a bit where they landed so to speak. So to get the chemical process to do that, it is fairly clever. Not to other people, because they do it every day but to you and I it’s a clever process. This cloth is 54” wide maybe a tad wider and is in a very delicate shade of duck egg blue. Very drapey, floppy almost and certainly made as a garment to go on top of, as well as, if you understand what I am saying? Nice cloth. REF: CM923
54” (137cm) WIDE
£5.75 per metre
C ✿✿Christmas Cottons When is the right time, better early than too late – we present them now. We have some advent and stocking panels too but can’t fit them in so look online or ask if you are interested, they cost £12.00 per panel. a) Christmas Eve b) Happy Holidays c) Holly Cream d) Holly Green e) Holly Rouge f) Poinsettia g) Stocking Filler h) The Secret Christmas i) Tiny Holly Cream j) Tiny Holly Red REF: CM984
Our standard P&P charge is £5.95. This excludes non-UK mainland postcodes which are: IV; HS; KA27-28; KW; PA20-49; PA60-78; PH17-26; PH30-44; PH49-50; ZE; BT; IM; TR21-25 For these areas the charge depends on weight. Surcharges may apply and vary from £0-£8 on top of the standard charge. Please place your order and we will confirm any extra charges the charge before we ship.
£7.95 per metre
✿✿Christmas Poly/Cottons a) Christmas Red Spot b) Christmas Green Spot d) Christmas Tree Green e) Rudolph and Santa 80% poly / 20% cotton Christmas prints REF: CM987
44” (114cm) WIDE
c) Snowflakes
£3.25 per metre
✿✿Camomile lawn Glorious cerise cotton/viscose fabric which is perfect for tops and blouses and trousers. Lightweight and has a nice soft hand. REF: CM797
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55” (139cm) WIDE
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.00 per metre
✿✿Chambray Here we have a selection of lovely quality cotton chambray fabrics that will not disappoint. b) Lilac - This is £6.95 c) Pink - These are £6.95 d) Blue - cotton chambray, wonderfully pale blue cotton chambray. This one is £7.75 REF: CM376
64” (162cm) WIDE
prices as stated
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✿✿Changing Spots
✿✿Cosi
58/60” wide polyester, lightweight crepe with an all-over animal print, which could be a leopard, could be a cheetah, or just a figment of someone’s imagination… but I hope that conveys the animal bit of it too you. It’s a bit of a see-through cloth, despite the amount of pattern there is on the cloth. The colouring is: black, beige cream and a hint of what looks like dark green. Now you won’t see that on a cheetah, anywhere. REF: CM897 58/60” WIDE
£6.00
✿✿Cockadoodle Doo I’m not so sure what this cloth reminded me of to give it that title, but perhaps it has something to do with the swirling featherlike pattern in white on a black. The fabric has been dyed and the pattern has been printed using a pattern called discharge printing; which means that the black gets bleached out to create the white. Which, to be fair is actually slightly off white. The black will not run at 40 degrees. It is a very drapey, knitted viscose cloth. Not exactly for the faint-hearted but it is rather delicious. 60” wide at least. So you get a lot of feathers for your money, and it is a fairly substantial cloth to boot. John Kaldor is printed on the selvedge. REF: CM928
60” (152cm) WIDE at least
£6.00
✿✿Concertina 60” wide pale royal blue polyester, elastane jersey; which has been produced in such a way to give it a very fine concertina/pleated effect. Lightweight and very silky, it probably belongs to early Hollywood REF: CM946
60” (152cm) WIDE
£4.00
✿✿Concours d’elegance 60” wide polyester georgette in a very pale grey, with an all over “wild” pattern in white, darker grey and just a hint of peach. The flowers come either as individuals or in sprays or bunches and give a very elegant overall appearance which is both pretty and striking at the same time. REF: CM908
60” (152cm) WIDE
This is a fine brushed poly/cotton shirting with a wonderfully soft hand. a) Aqua b) grey c) Pale Blue REF: CM169
45” (114cm) WIDE
✿✿Corduroys Babies Bottoms and Beyond 60” wide supersoft Twill cotton corduroy in a very dark brown and wonderful silky finish. And yes it is as soft as a...Gorgeous cloth! REF: CM817
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.50 per metre
Baby Cord 60” wide, ridiculously fine cotton cord, with a velvet finish. a) Beige b) Brown REF: CM539
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.25 per metre
Baby Cords M&S Shirtings made for M&S. Baby soft and so fine is the cord it is almost like velvet. Lovely lightweight quality, wonderful for said purpose but would look super smocked on a little girls dress. a) Lilac b) Sage c) blue REF: CM647
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
Beautiful South 60” wide navy blue soft finish needlecord with a fabulous hand. REF: CM920
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.00
Bertolli 43” wide olive green cotton 4 wale lightweight corduroy, although has fairly soft hand it appears to be rather rugged. REF: CM815a 43” (109cm) WIDE
£6.50
Cockadoodle Doo
Changing Spots
£3.00 per metre
Concours d’elegance
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Concertina
£6.00 per metre
beautiful fabrics delivered to your door Floral Printed Cord This fabric is a soft printed baby cord, and is exceptionally pretty. It has a soft floral design on an ivory base. The flowers are in a stone, soft peach, orange, claret and black. REF: CM863
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.50 per metre
Needlecord 60” wide 100% cotton, fine whale needlecord in a) dark olive green b) cream REF: CM9736
60” (152cm) WIDE
Since the last catalogue we have changed the name of this fabric, as we did not feel the name ‘Grow Bag’ was one of Alan’s finest and didn’t really suit this stunning quality cotton lawn (as good as liberty and our pima quality) with an all over patchwork print in hundreds of different types of flowers all very small not a lot of the background showing, very colourful. It comes in three colour ways all quite different from each other. a) Blue b) Beige c) Mint REF: CM830
54” (137cm) WIDE
£6.00
£8.50 per metre
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✿✿Cotton Jersey Years ago you could fall over this cloth there was so much good quality jersey was produced and there probably still is, but sadly not in this country. We have managed to get hold of some very nice quality cotton jersey in varying weights and widths. a) White d) Beige f) Black (Tubular) g) Pale Aqua i) Palest Peach At least 60” up to 68” (152- 160cm) Wide REF: OT64 the ones above are £5.25 per metre
✿✿Cotton Jerseys – New These are our new cotton jerseys d) Deep Coral e) Green REF: CM441
✿✿Country Garden
✿✿D’Angelo 60”/150cm wide 30% wool, 70% polyester knitted jersey in a weight suitable for items like bison jackets, the basic cloth is a mottled grey, but that has had a print added to the surface in an abstract geometric pattern in lots of lovely colours including: mauve, cerise, hints of purple. Blue, orange and combinations in these colours where they criss-cross in the pattern. Another Italian masterpiece. REF: CM941
60” (150cm) WIDE
£18.00 per metre
✿✿Dead Poets Society f) Yellow
64” (162cm) WIDE
£6.50 per metre
✿✿Cotton Jersey with Lycra - Black
This is a 150cm or 58/60” wide 97% cotton, 3% elastane lightweight trousering/jacket cloth. It’s printed in a quite zany abstract pattern, in black, pale green, blue, mustard, red, cerise, with all manner of shapes and articles within the print, but none that you could exactly put your finger on. A fantastic cloth. REF: CM903 58/60” WIDE
£12.50
Good quality medium weight jersey, perfect for if you need a bit of give. REF: CM610b 60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.00 per metre
Can you work out the link between the name of this cloth and where we are based? If you can you will understand the name, as this polyester cloth is also dark and mysterious. Its slight shine will have you spell bound.
✿✿Cotton Ribbed Jersey Superb quality heavy weight ribbed cotton jersey fabric, in a good dark black. The rib is quarter of an inch or 7mm. REF: CM889
54” (137cm) WIDE
✿✿Demdyke
REF: CM756
59” (152cm) WIDE
£5.00 per metre
£8.75 per metre
Country Garden
D’Angelo
New Cotton Jerseys
Dead Poets Society
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✿✿Denims
✿✿Disguise
a) De-nimes - 60 inch wide middleweight cotton lycra denim -traditional if you like- in dark blue. Not as good as we used to make at our factory in Brierfield but none the less excellent. This one is £7.50 per metre b) Washed Denim - Wonderfully soft 60inch wide washed denim in a super traditional mid blue. This one is £10.95 c) Navy Denim - 60inch Wide soft dark navy (almost black.) It is medium to lightweight, but just light enough for a shirt. This one is £8.00 per metre d) Heavy weight with lycra - 63inch/158cm. Very dark navy denim/20% lycra. Unlike the other navy denim above, this has a texture in the weave; it is subtle and very nice. This one is £8.00 per metre e) Sebastian - Smart, classy, strong (maybe a little posh?!) who knows, but these are the words that came to mind as I looked at this denim fabric. Maybe they are not what you think of when you here the name Sebastian but… Here we have a rather stunning cotton/poly/elastane lightweight black denim. 60”/152cm wide and £8.95 per metre REF: CM322 size and prices as listed
REF: CM926
60” (150cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
✿✿ Dressiness 60” wide black, polyester lightweight dress fabric which has an element of “dressiness” and might even have been used for evening wear. Comes in a) Navy b) Black c) Cream REF: CM931
59-60” (150 -152cm) WIDE
£4.50 per metre
E ✿✿El Superemeo 60” wide very fine, cotton lycra satin finish shirting/lightweight suiting, in a very nice shade of navy blue. That is to say, it isn’t a very dark navy nor is it French. It’s in between, could it be Spanish? Hence El Superemeo.
✿✿Development 54” wide linen/viscose/elastane suiting in either a fairly flat oatmeal or a shade on from baby pink. The cloth shares, well obviously shares the attributes of linen in the little slubbiness in the appearance. So it’s not exactly smooth, it has the benefits of viscose; which will prevent some of the creasing, and then there is the elastane that will prevent a little bit more. a) Beige b) Pink REF: CM971
60” wide polyester crepe in cream, grey and little bit of a mustardy beige colour. The cloth is 60” wide, the zebra pattern stripes don’t bedazzle, they are quite easy on the eye and the cloth certainly, from a medium sort of distance, is extremely classy. As you get up to it you are drawn to the detail, in the print and all in all I think it is an outstanding cloth. Only 1 roll.
54” (137cm) WIDE
£9.00 per metre
Delivery We aim to despatch your parcel within 3 days of receipt of your order. Due to the nature of the business and when the catalogue has newly been despatched this may be longer. From despatch parcels take between 1-3 days depending on the courier. More details can be found on our website www.croftmill.co.uk
Washed Denim
REF: CM925
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.95 per metre
F ✿✿Finest Cotton Shirtings Five wonderful shirting fabrics from Paul Smith. Yum Yum. My three year old says along with a slurping sound and a cheeky look whenever he gets to eat something he likes. It’s funny how this never leaves you, now it’s just over a delicious cloth. b) Super 180s - 60” wide incredibly fine woven cotton shirting in the finest of yarns in a pink and navy blue ¼” check. Slaveringly beautiful. c) Finest Shirting Navy - Beautiful quality cotton lawn shirting in navy. REF: CM843
60” (152cm) WIDE
Heavy weight with lycra
Disguise
Development
Dressiness
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£6.00 per metre
beautiful fabrics delivered to your door d) To Have and To Hold - Made from two fold, 180’s supremely fine long staple cotton. This shirting in a very tiny window pane check, has very much the hand of silk, as it might being as fine as it is and is made up of navy blue, white and red yarns. This cloth is Italian but there were cloths in the good old days, fabrics as fine as this were woven on Lancashire looms, but there was probably one weaver to two or three looms. REF: CM843
58” (147cm) WIDE
£6.00
✿✿Fleece We have some very nice quality fleece fabrics for you: a) Navy b) Birds c) Pink Cuddle REF: CM988
59” (150cm) WIDE
d) White £8.25 per metre
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REF: CM796
Widths as Stated
£6.75 per metre
Cotton/poly Gabardine Cotton rich Gabardine suiting fabrics. These vary in width but all are £6.00 per metre. a) Cherry Ripe - 60” wide (at least) cotton rich cotton/poly gabardine trousering pleasant shade of cherry red, not shouting, not whispering; just talking. This is the last roll. There is a fault every 2 metres so it is reduced to £5.00 per metre. b) Lime Grove - 62” poly/cotton trousering. A bright, but not too bright, mint. Very refreshing.
✿✿Guard 59/60” “150cm” wide guards red 80% wool, 20% nylon flannel. In old fashioned money, perhaps an eight ounce cloth, and the depth of colour is gorgeous. If you want a stunning red jacket or coat, this is your man. REF: CM938
c) Boris - 60” wide fine cotton lightweight gabardine in a rich camel colour. Sufficiently finely woven to give the cloth a sheen, it is not artificial, it is the quality of the yarn and the tightness of the weave that has caused this. It won’t be that often that he has a smart cloth named after him.
59-60” (150-152cm) WIDE
£21.95
✿✿German Trouserings We have had a huge delivery of trouserings, all from Germany and of a superb quality. All our precious stock of chino cotton trouserings had gone, so we are delighted to have these. Cotton Gabardine These are all 60inch wide and £6.75
c) Lotta Bottle - 59” wide cotton rich cotton/poly chino in dark bottle green and with very fine twill weave. REF: CM818
b) One of those days - Cotton gabardine trousering in pale grey. Beautiful cloth but you might need to embellish it to brighten it up.
£5.50 per metre
Canvas a) Death in paradise - This is a 63 inch wide softly brushed lightweight cotton canvas soft but strong in the way of the best toilet tissue, it comes in a rather pleasant shade of light camel. It will make anything from wonderful floppy hats to bush trousers. b) Tonto - 64” wide very fine cotton canvas trousering in Wyoming sunset yellow that’s a soft dark yellow. REF: CM802
a) Green Tea - Lightweight cotton gabardine in a not too creamy cream, pretty much of the bowling/ croquet kind of colour.
Widths as Stated
Widths as Stated
£6.75 per metre
Sanded Trousering This has been sanded so it has a lovely soft feel, almost like a baby’s bottom. a) Spandau - 56” wide awfully nice cotton lycra chino in a dark mustardy gold colour. REF: CM812a
Finest Cotton Shirtings To Have and To Hold
German Trouserings - Lime Grove
Fleece - Birds
Fleece - Pink Cuddle
56” (142cm) WIDE
£6.50 per metre
Guard
German Trouserings Lotta bottle
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✿✿SEERSUCKER As summery as you are going to get, this 100% cotton seersucker which is a bit of a rarity is a 1/8 of an inch check in a) Pink and White Both would look ever so pretty in a tiny dress with puff sleeves. REF: OT97
45” (114cm) wide
£5.50 per metre
✿✿Shine on – Mirror Lame Gold or silver lame. For decoration, for dress, for furnishing even. High gloss mirror finish. a) Gold b) Silver
✿✿BRODERIE ANGLAISE
REF: CH29
Traditional 3 hole design Broderie Anglaise in a) White b) Cream REF: OT15
45” (114cm) wide
£4.95 per metre
✿✿BULL DURHAM 100% cotton unbleached but finished ‘bull denim’ fabric. A heavyweight twill in other words. REF: CM011
60” (152cm) wide
45” (114cm) Wide
45” (114cm) wide
d) Red £3.50 per metre
✿✿Gingham (1/4”)
£12.00 per metre
60” wide heavy cotton waffle fabric in cream, widely used at one time in the best places to stay where dressing gowns and slippers were made of the same. Almost as rare as hen’s teeth. We get asked for this a lot, named Waffle II not because we get it a lot but because we also have a finer cotton waffle which preceded this. It will be the last for us I imagine for some time. We don’t have much either so don’t delay REF: CM156b
60” (152cm) Wide
£10.00 per metre
45”(114cm) wide
REF: CM370
c) White
57” (145cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
60” (152cm) wide
£8.75 per metre
✿✿WHITE COTTON LAWN A good quality plain white cotton lawn. d) Emerald h) Mid Pink
REF: CM061
60” (152cm) wide
£6.75 per metre
✿✿WHITE COTTON POPLIN £5.70 per metre
✿✿RACING SILK 100% polyester artificial silk in a) Red b) Blue
60” (152 cm) wide
£3.50 per metre
c) Claret g) Navy k) Cream
45” (114cm) wide
REF: CM438
A 60” wide fine white cotton Lycra twill, lots and lots of very fine yarn in this so it doesn’t want to be wasted on pinnies.
✿✿PLAIN DYED COTTON POPLIN 100% cotton poplin in a) Red b) Purple e) Bright Yellow f) Iris i) Royal Blue j) Turquoise l) Pale Buttercup m) Sky
White cotton twill/drill fabric wide white, quite heavy, cotton twill/drill, much used in the making of chefish garments, hats and the like. Make him an apron for the barbeque season so he has something proper to wipe his hands on.
✿✿WHITE COTTON LYCRA DRILL
Poly/cotton 1/4” corded edged gingham in a) Red b) Green c) Lilac d) Yellow e) Dark Blue f) Black h) Pale Blue i) Pink j) Royal Blue
REF: MY27
54” (135cm) wide
✿✿WHITE COTTON DRILL
1” (2.5cm) corded edged gingham, poly/cotton a) Emerald Green b) Pale Blue c) Dark Blue
REF: OT86
REF: CM303
£4.75 per metre
✿✿GINGHAM
REF: OT49
Superfine white cotton lawn with a calended satin finish you hear of fabrics described as having two, three, four, five, six hundred thread count, I honestly don’t know what this is I’ve got a magnifying glass on it and I couldn’t begin to count them, there are thousands of yarns to the inch, incredible cloth. g) White h) Ivory
✿✿cotton waffle
Poly/cotton with a tiny little solid daisy like flower joined by swirls of single strand embroidery, obviously on the white it is white and on the cream it’s cream, it’s very pretty and just a little bit different from our usual broderie anglaise. Often the embroidery in broderie anglaise is shiny; in this the embroidery is matt. This is an expensive looking cloth. a) Cream
REF: OT50
£4.25 per metre
✿✿Supersonic – Superior Quality Lawn
£6.75 per metre
✿✿Daisy Chain
REF: CM321a
44” (112cm) wide
d) Black
e) Purple
Pure and simple 60” wide 100% white cotton poplin in brilliant white and nearly of a quality produced in this mill umpteen years ago. We will endeavor to get more of this cloth expensive though it is as is in the future it is likely to be made in China and the quality will not be as good by any stretch of the imagination. REF: CH26
£2.75 per metre
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£5.25 per metre
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Two be two ditsy pink - REF: PP30e
Say it with Flowers REF: PP3b
Tea Dress REF: PP45
MAD MEN REF: PP43
pretty pinstripe pink - REF: PP2a
Flora REF: PP25
ELLIOTT REF: PP49
cotton owl ivory ground - REF: PP44
Jessica REF: CM871
ARABELLE GREEN - REF: PP38A
GRACE IVORY - REF: PP31A
OKLAHOMA navy - REF: PP34c
Grace Blue REF: PP31b
OKLAHOMA REF: PP34
CAROLINE CHARTREUSE - REF: CM701C
CAROLINE delph - REF: CM701b
This fabric is also available in: Navy REF: CM701c and Aqua REF: CM701c
GAGA REF: PP33
vespa REF: CM711
Grandmother’s Garden REF: CM886
Angelina White REF: PP29b
reunited REF: CM713
OLIVIA GREEN - REF: PP35A
THE CRAFTY SPOT PALE BLUE - REF: PP10B
THE CRAFTY SPOT SAGE - REF: PP10A
olivia blue - REF: PP35b
THE CRAFTY SPOT LIGHT NAVY - REF: PP10B
THE CRAFTY SPOT DUSKY PINK - REF: PP10E
lizzy Pale blue - REF: CM710b
THE CRAFTY SPOT tAupE - REF: PP10i
THE CRAFTY SPOT OLD GREEN - REF: PP10H
NELLY REF: PP30
Also available in: Dark Navy, Baby Pink, Red, Cerise, Yellow
PAUL SMITH STRIPE REF: CM702A
Sherlock REF: CM996
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Ditzy Do Chintz REF: PC5a
Everything’s Rosie REF: PC4
Columbus REF: PC6
Shortcake REF: PC5
brum REF:
Put the Kettle on Pink REF: CM046a
Children in Need Big Spot - REF: PC7
Put the Kettle on Black REF: CM046c
Put the Kettle on blue REF: PC7b
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Heathcliffe
Half Way
If You Build It...
✿✿German Trousers - continued
✿✿Heathcliffe
Striped a) Pindrop - Now there’s a thing, pinstriped cotton chino in dark fawn with a very lightly sanded finish made from quite fine yarn and tightly woven. 59in (150cm) Wide. b) Pickup - 59” wide. Very fine but substantial cotton Bedford cord with at 1 cm intervals a hiccup which gives it a bit of a stripe pattern. REF: CM820
Widths as Stated
£6.75 per metre
Cotton/lycra twill trousering fabric. This damson is the last we have in these superb trouserings. b) Damson £6.50 per metre
60” wide quite substantial but lightweight 98% cotton/ 2% lycra twill with an abstract design with a plethora of all the colours of the spectrum. 60” (152cm) WIDE
£7.95 per metre
H ✿✿Half Way 60” wide cotton plaid check shirting in a cream, brown, blue, and a green check; with an over check in purple. This is very likely to have been made as a lining for a jacket of some kind, but it’s still a half-way decent cloth. REF: CM964
60” (152cm) WIDE
£9.75 per metre
✿✿Humming Bird This is a fabulous high twist, Italian viscose dress fabric with a bright print that includes a charming humming bird. 60” (152cm) WIDE
£9.95 per metre
✿✿How Now 60” wide cotton lightweight Teflon coated trousering in dark chocolate sort of brown, a light sanding has given it a fabulous hand. 60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.25 per metre
I ✿✿If You Build It... As in the dream of the Iowan farmer who built a baseball field eventually things happened. There’s a cloth here 60” wide Italian cotton shirting, made for Paul Smith. Almost like a chambray, but differing in that it also has some little flecks in the weave and some of the white yarn is slightly proud of the cloth. But still the overall effect is a sort of pale air-force..y blue. It then has this wonderful finish; which is inherent in the yarns; it’s not going to wash out, or anything like that. But it gives it the hand of an angel. REF: CM975
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.45 per metre
Opening Times
58” wide cotton shirting in light cream with a fine cream herringbone weave. This is the last roll, we now have a similar cloth; number 58. 58” (147cm) WIDE
55” (139cm) WIDE
£5.00 per metre
✿✿Hathaway Revisited REF: CM546
REF: CM868
REF: CM808
✿✿Give it Some REF: CM840
Dramatic blue floral crepe dress fabric, a very nice weight with a good hand and great for those who don’t like the crease.
REF: CM862
✿✿Give a Little REF: CM302b 60” (152cm) WIDE
Humming Bird
£3.50 per metre
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Italian Mocha
Lace
Jayne
Lady
Liberté
✿✿I’m a Little Teapot Believe it or not I know a person who has a shirt made out of this. He has shirts made out of all kinds of things but this I though took the biscuit. It’s a 59” wide, 100% cotton, deep cream/slightly yellowy base cloth with an all over kitchen print in navy blue depicting tea pots, pepper pots, onions, pea pods etc. with the word for these printed on the fabric. A great pinny fabric, excellent cloth. REF: CM476
59” (150cm) WIDE
£4.50 per metre
✿✿Interlock 70” (152cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
✿✿Irish Linens
REF: CM831
54” (137cm) WIDE
£9.95 per metre
✿✿Italian Mocha
54/56” wide cotton with polyester lace. With a lovely soft finish and a pretty floral pattern. REF: CM911
54-56” (137-142cm) WIDE
£6.75 per metre
✿✿Lady
REF: CM958
58-59” (147-150cm) WIDE
£7.25
56” wide light cotton jersey with a quite fancy knit in vertical lines, quite narrow and very close together in which is an additional fancy pattern, which is different in some of the stripes in the varying widths. So all in all, a rather tasty t-shirt cloth. REF: CM910
56” (142cm) WIDE
£5.00 per metre
✿✿Love Me Do
56”/145cm 50% wool, 50% viscose knitted light to medium weight jacketing in a warm mid grey. It comes in a flat bouclé knit and hails from a very famous Italian maker. Stunning. 56” (142cm) WIDE
£17.50 per metre
J ✿✿Jayne This is a medium to lightweight viscose jersey in a pretty floral design in autumnal colours. REF: CM985
✿✿Lace
✿✿Liberté
54 inch wide Irish linen heavyweight suiting in either: a) Deep red b) Deep turquoise c) Brown slightly heavier cloth doesn’t get much better than this. In fact this is such a weight it is good for bags and cushions too.
REF: CM939
L
58/59” wide pale cream polyester/elastane suiting. Very much of a summer nature, soft to the touch, very crease-resistant. More of a lady’s cloth than I man’s a suspect.
Superior quality interlock jersey in a) Palest Pink b) lilac REF: CM422
Love Me Do - z) a) y)
BALINESE
57” (147cm) WIDE
£7.00 per metre
A Woodland Romance Sweet and whimsical this fine weave cotton fabric has a small scale pattern full of romance and woodland beauty. a) Blue b) Beige y) Red REF: CM613
60” (152cm) WIDE
£7.95 per metre
z) Coriandoli Set onto a cream base this floral print really will steal your heart, small in scale the pink flowers are not in a uniformed direction as if scattered into the air. REF: CM613z
62” (158cm) WIDE
£7.95 per metre
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✿✿Mad Hatter
✿✿Oh Heck
54 ins wide lightly brushed and beautiful soft cotton twill in an all over floral pattern in turquoise, navy, purple mustard and cream - might be a tad old fashioned but none the worse for that. REF: CM746
54” (137cm) WIDE
PIMA COTTON LAWN - finders keepers
✿✿Magenta
£9.95 per metre
PIMA COTTON LAWN - FLANDERS
150cm wide, 98% polyester, 2% spandex dress fabric in, as the title suggests, a vibrant magenta colour. A plain weave, with just a hint of crepeyness teamed with black or navy blue; this is a real corker. REF: CM944
60” (152cm) WIDE
£9.50 per metre
✿✿Mexican Widow 60” wide polyester velour with a little bit of stretch, in a rather glorious dark red colour. The sort of things to make a Scottish widow’s cloak from. But in this case it might be a Mexican widow’s. REF: CM950
60” (152cm) WIDE £9.95 PIGEON FORCE PIMA COTTON LAWN - HANAKOTABA
✿✿Mountain Momma (picture on the back)
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.75
N ✿✿Naranjos
60” (152cm) WIDE
(picture on cover)
REF: CM937
54” (137cm) WIDE
£25.00
✿✿National Velvet a) Black – 60” wide finely woven velvet in cotton with 2% lycra b) Pink – 60” wide, cotton/lycra velvet. It is a gorgeous soft pink. Scrumptious. REF: CM576
60” (152cm) WIDE
£10.00
✿✿New England
✿✿Open Wide
REF: CM918
64-66” (162-167cm) WIDE
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PIMA COTTON LAWN - TEARDROP
£5.50
PIMA COTTON LAWN - PARADISE
A 60” wide suiting fabric from Paul Smith. It is in a dark grey and would be ideal in unstructured garments, that isn’t to say not tailored, but certainly unstructured – maybe not even lined. It is made from cotton viscose and is fairly special, there is lots of interest in the yarns that have been used. Little slubs, speckles; none of which detract from the overall colour but soften it somewhat. So there you have it. 60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.00
✿✿Paisley Linings These are 100% polyester changeant paisley linings. We have them in the following colours: a) Blue b) Purple c) Gold d) Black e) Rust f) Grey REF: CM990
58” (148cm) WIDE
£ 4.75
✿✿Percale 92” wide cotton percale sheeting or shirting or whatever else you want to make from. This is a cloth made for sheeting but it has a lovely satin finish there are hundreds of threads to the square inch, it is only the width that prevents it from being a magnificent all-rounder but a beautiful cloth any way. REF: CM804
92” (233cm) WIDE
£12.95 per metre
✿✿Pick of the Bunch
58% wool 40% polyester 2% elastane, fine dinning hall tweed in as many colours as you can think of in the autumn leaves of New England. Overall I suppose you would say, it’s a rusty-reddy brown; but that’s not quite so good as new autumn leaves of New England, is it? REF: CM940
£16.00
64/66” wide knitted silky viscose jersey in a very pale cream, might be a little too sensual for some. There is a shine in one of the yarns in this which means that it does not have a matt finish. It is not shiny though; very nice.
REF: CM966
54” wide gobsmackingly gorgeous wool, mohair, knitted jacketing in orange, made in France for Chanel. Now that is what I call orange. Wonderfully bright and rich. The surface isn’t unlike a heavy bouclé, I’m not sure how to describe the actual knit, but it’s in sort of wavy lines It’s furry and although quite thick, it is extremely light; which I suppose is what wool and mohair are all about. Break a leg to get this one.
59” (150cm) WIDE
60” wide viscose/nylon/elastane suiting in a beautiful shade of aubergine; which I think quite a lot of red wines, these days, share. A nice soft finish. Quite a delightful cloth. REF: CM970
60” (152cm) WIDE
£16.20
£8.95 per metre
✿✿Pigeon Force
✿✿Not Fade Away 60” wide viscose/elastane Italian made designer jersey in a horizontal striped design; not to say you couldn’t put the stripes t’other way up. REF: CM972
REF: CM902
✿✿P.S
60” wide cotton check shirting with a light seersucker finish. It’s bright and at the same time quite delicate. Reminiscent of Dolly in her younger days, magic. REF: CM916
Just as I was settling down to my pie and peas, along comes a cloth which from one side, you wouldn’t think it had this on the other. Well it’s a 60” wide woven, wool tweed in quite a mixture of yarns, as you would expect a tweed to be, but predominately the overall effect is light brown. But then printed on it, is a floral design in brown, black, purple, dark orange and I can’t really see why they’ve done it apart from the fact that you might wear it in some partly PIMA COTTON LAWN - LEFT BANK PIMA COTTON LAWN - LIBERTY reversible article. It has a bit of a rugged feel, there is not a great deal of it, but it must have been popular at some point in its native Italy.
60” (152cm) WIDE
£12.75
60 inch wide cotton check lightweight flannel shirting from Paul Smith with just a hint of bluegrass about it. It has a slub in the weft which shows up in the paler part of the cloth and the cloth itself is made up of pale grey, dark grey and purple yarns forming a gingham-like check. It has a wonderful hand and can be best described as a wonderful cloth. REF: CM837
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£6.75 per metre
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Magenta
Mexican Widow
National Velvet
Oh Heck
Not Fade Away
Paisley Linings
✿✿Pima Cotton Lawn Superb Tana quality lawn (produced in the same factories as Liberty Tana Lawn.) d) Oceans Eleven e) Chelsea f) Paisley j) Hanakotaba k) Finders Keepers REF: CM303
60” (152cm) WIDE
£12.95 per metre
✿✿Pin Head
REF: CM921
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.00
✿✿Pop A selection of three lovely cotton poplins in three different patterns a) Can’t Believe it’s not Butter - Whatever this reminds you of it is a lovely cheerful fabric. b) Flower Power - Whatever you make out of this, it is inevitable to feel happy whilst wearing it. REF: CM884
59” (150cm) WIDE
£7.95 per meter
c) Luella Black - This superb rose floral design is printed onto a lovely quality poplin and will make up into great dresses or craft products. REF: CM884
58” (147cm) WIDE
£7.95 per metre
R
Pop c) a) b)
Shrinking Feeling
✿✿Safari Another Marks & Spencer’s suiting fabric. It is a polyester, viscose and lycra, lightweight summer trousering in a camel or beige colour; it’s tough but exceedingly soft fabric, quite creaseless and easy to look after cloth. Wonderful for jackets and clothes for travelling in. a) Beige b) Camel 56” (142cm) WIDE
£5.75 per metre
✿✿Safely Gathered 54” wide polyester elastane blouse/skirt fabric in deepest darkest black with the addition that 4”/10cm possibly intervals, a band of gathering which is where the elastane comes in. So it draws the cloth in, widths ways, not length ways, to give a ruched effect. Can’t say further than that. REF: CM896
54” (137cm) WIDE
£4.50 per metre
✿✿Shrinking Feeling As I approach my umpteenth birthday, and as hard I try to stand tall, I can’t see over some of these racks of cloth; which it makes it a bit of a hard job as it means I then have to go round t’other side and perhaps do a bit of climbing. But I have just found a cloth that was worth the effort. A 60” wide, polyester crepe of a dress/suiting weight in a rather magnificent shade of a RAF Blue/Mauve...that is to say it is a bluey-mauve, or a mauvey-blue. Easy care, easy wear. And as dressed up or down as you would like. REF: CM952
60” (152cm) WIDE
£14.75 per metre
✿✿Siena 60” wide burnt orange, very fine polyester crepe suiting. Virtually creaseless, beautifully soft and a delight to wear with the colour being a bit of an Italian sunset.
✿✿Rockefeller This is a nice quality polyester dress fabric with an abundance of colours and an art deco feel. REF: CM986
Rockefeller
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REF: CM310
Not to be confused with any form of insult, this is a 60” wide cotton chino weight cloth, with the finest of tiny pinhead checks. Really only caused by locking up the yarns going one way then t’other, and where they cross it makes a check that is very, very fine. But there is a lot of yarn which makes the cloth a touch on the heavy side of light. If you are confused it is a very good trouser/jacket weight fabric and is in a clerical grey.
Pima Cotton Lawn
58” (147cm) WIDE
REF: CM951
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.00 per metre
£7.00 per metre
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✿✿Silk Voile
✿✿Supernova
I think you may rather like this, rather too good to be true at this price, but I don’t think the guy who sold it to me knew what it was. Ultra – fine red silk voile. REF: CM687
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
✿✿Slinky The width of this polyester cloth suggests to me, that it has been made for underwear. It’s quite stretchy, so I can’t be exact about the width but it’s around the 50” mark and comes in a pale olive a) green or b) silvery pale grey. It doesn’t have to disappear under anything, it can be worn on top in its own right, it’s a beautifully made article. a) Mid olive green b) Pale silver REF: CM947
50” (127cm) WIDE
£4.50 per metre
✿✿Sofia A 54” wide, quite sensational cloth from Missoni, in Italy. Its knitted, it’s in a zig-zag knit pattern with lots of muted colour, must have been made for jackets, or stoles, or shawls or that type of thing. Another cloth that is as rare as hens teeth. REF: CM904
54” (145cm) WIDE
£28.75 per metre
✿✿Striped Taffeta – Brown and Turquoise I am not absolutely certain that this cloth isn’t a lining, if it’s a lining it’s a stormer, if it’s for skirts, waistcoats, bodices, that type of thing, it’s extremely good. Basically it is a brown/ turquoise/ aqua stripe with finer brown/ turquoise/ aqua stripes bordering the wider three main coloured stripes. Does that make sense? Or have I been wasting my time. It is a great cloth, a nice hand. 100% polyester. a) Brown b) Turquoise REF: CM345b
60” (152cm) WIDE
Siena
Supernova
Sofia
That Old Chestnut
90”/228cm
£12.75 per metre
✿✿Swan Lake (picture on back cover) 60” wide polyester crinkle georgette in a deep turquoise blue with what appeared to be small swans in balletic positions all over the cloth in cream. Not for me, as I am big boy now, but ever so delicately feminine. REF: CM909
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.50 per metre
T ✿✿That Old Chestnut 58/59” “150cm” wide superfine velvet cord. And when I say superfine, I really do mean it. It’s a finer cord as you have ever seen, and comes in an absolutely delicious colour; which is described on the label as ‘chestnut’ which to me is a very dark, rusty, reddy brown. Almost bordering on burgundy. 97% cord, 3% elastane. Fill your boots. REF: CM962 58-59” (150-152cm) WIDE
£10.00 per metre
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Very pretty floral dress fabric in a classic summer pattern and eye catching colours. 45” (132cm) WIDE
REF: CM979
£4.50 per metre
✿✿Summer Day REF: CM617
2.3m wide (90”) knitted polyester/acrylic/viscose heavy jersey. Fairly loosely knitted in, a sort of unstructured check pattern. The colours involved in the cloth are white, black, grey and an element of verlouex thread which adorns some of the squares in the check. It’s not knitted as a square check, it’s knitted as a diamond shape check, but the shapes within that are sort of square. A very interesting and awfully clever cloth, which because of the weight will make excellent loose or even baggy articles.
£4.75 per metre
The Colour Purple
Viscose Jerseys
When in Doubt
YUCATAN
Viscose Jerseys
ZeeZee Top
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✿✿The Colour Purple Well, that’s what it says on the ticket; it also says on the ticket that it’s 60” wide which I disbelieved. But subsequently find to be correct. 100% Viscose. Beautifully made, nice soft hand, easy care...What more do you want of a cloth. REF: CM980
60” (152cm) WIDE
£9.95 per metre
✿✿The Final Frontier (picture on front cover) 60” at least, fine viscose jersey in a shade of bluey-purple which astronauts see as they are entering space. There is a fine, lighter fleck yarn running through the cloth, which could give the impression of the light shining through some other galaxy. Soft, silky and slinky I’ll bet this is a delight to wear. REF: CM900
60” at least (152cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
✿✿There Comes a Time Having been around as long as I have, and been in this game as long as I have, not much can surprise, but every so often something crops up that almost takes your breath away. This is one such cloth, it is 54” wide. It’s in black and a brown mix, if it was a fur fabric it would be extraordinarily ordinary. But it isn’t. This is a knitted bouclé jacketing, lightweight, warm; it has wool and mohair and I think, a bit of nylon in it to keep it hardwearing. But it is exceptionally soft, wonderful to handle and absolutely astonishing to look at. If there is enough of it, buy it all. REF: CM927
54” (145cm) WIDE
W ✿✿Waterproofs Royal Blue 60’’ wide washables, breathable polyester weave coated royal blue canvas- made for one of the big names in the outdoor sector. REF: CM635f
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.95 per metre
Jett Black waterproof lightweight canvas. REF: CM884
59” (150cm) WIDE
£6.75 per metre
Black Ripstop Canvas Black polyester ripstop canvas. REF: CM876
59” (150cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
✿✿When in Doubt This is a 52” wide approximately cotton 36%, viscose 34%, linen 10% cheesecloth, in a riot of a paisley/floral pattern. And whilst it looks random, it is not. It has a proper repeat and at 12” intervals across the cloth, it has quite a large chrysanthemum. It has pretty much every colour you can think of, but they are muted rather than bold. And it’s a great loose garment cloth. REF: CM905
52” (132cm) WIDE
£8.25 per metre
£12.00 per metre
✿✿Who’s a Nice Boy Then?
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58/59” wide dark navy blue poly/viscose suiting with an absolutely gorgeous finish. More of a summer weight than anything else. Beautifully made.
✿✿Underskirt This does exactly what it says on the tin. 100% Polyester underskirt fabric. REF: CM144b
56” (144 cm) WIDE
REF: CM953
58-59” (147-150cm) WIDE
£5.95 per metre
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✿✿Up + In What a cloth! This is a navy cotton/elastane twill suiting fabric. Heavy weight, but not thick, for all garments with a bit a give to hold you up and in. REF: CM649
60” (152cm) WIDE
£5.95 per metre
V ✿✿Viscose Jerseys Viscose jersey has become very popular as it drapes very well and is nice and soft. We have added some new colours: c) Dark Royal Blue d) Dark Chocolate f) Aqua g) Khaki h) Dark Brown i) Pale Royal j) Mid Grey REF: CM727
60” (152cm) WIDE
£6.50 per metre
New Viscose Jerseys Good quality, medium weight in e) Bright Emerald g) Deep Aqua REF: CM129
62” (157cm) WIDE
£5.50 per metre
✿✿Viscose Jersey
✿✿Yucatan This 54” wide acrylic and wool loose knitted jersey in beige, with a very dark brown, very soft and silky lace tacked on to it, that reminds me of something Mexican. I have no idea why, the lace certainly looks like something that a Mexican women of means would wear on the stoop on her adobe hacienda. The lace is considerably wider than the base cloth, so that when you do make something out of this, you’ll have something other of which to contemplate, at least. Gorgeous in the extreme. REF: CM948
54” (145cm) WIDE
£7.20 per metre
Z ✿✿ZeeZee Top I doubt that you will see many fabrics like this away from very high class, BLACK ON BLACK very trendy menswear shops. It is a 58” wide (147cm) Italian cotton suiting. It is in a very dark navy, with thousands of tiny, little ‘z’ marks in very narrow rows across the cloth. It could have actually been up and down the cloth, but they are not; they are from East to West. A very good suiting weight, and suited to structured as well as unstructured jackets, I believe it was part of a suit, so you can make trousers as well. REF: CM968
58” (147cm) WIDE
£7.00 per metre
A lovely fine and nice quality viscose jersey fabric in a stunning peach or cream... this would be very nice made into tops.This is great quality, and drapes a dream. It has a lot of yarn however it may not be the best for hiding lumps and bumps. a) Peach Twist b) Cream Twist REF: CM979
62” (157cm) WIDE
One scope or two
£5.50 per metre aloha - aqua
jerseylicious
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The Basics X1 BLACKOUT CURTAIN LINING
X13 SEWING MACHINE NEEDLES - ASSORTED
60” (152 cm) wide standard blackout curtain lining:
£6.00 per metre
X2 CALICO
Large Stitch rippers: £5.00 per metre
£1.20 each
X15 TROUSER HOOK AND BARS Trouser hooks and bars, 3 pairs per pack: a) Bright metal b) Black
X3 CURTAIN LINING 56” (142 cm) wide sol proof cotton satin, curtain lining in ecru. Will probably last as long as your curtains:
£6.50 per metre
£1.20 per pack
X16 TAPE MEASURES Best Quality Fiberglass tape measures in metric/imperial one side, imperial only on the other:
X4 ELASTIC a) 5 mm wide, white: b) 7 mm wide, white: c) 10 mm wide, white: d) 30 mm (1.25” wide), white: e) 40 mm wide, white: f) 7mm wide black elastic:
10p per metre 15p per metre 20p per metre 30p per metre 40p per metre 15p per metre
£2.00 per metre £1.80 per metre
450 metre reels of good quality sewing thread. Lots of colours; we can match it for you if you like.
£1.00 each
Cotton/Viscose/Horsehair/Polyester substantial woven suiting interfacing 32” (81 cm) wide:
£5.00 per metre
X7 HAND SEWING NEEDLES Pack of 12 assorted hand sewing needles.
£2.00 per pack
X8 HEMMING WEB 4 metre cards of hemming web:
70p each
X9 DRESS LININGS - SUPERIOR QUALITY We have good quality polyester linings to match nearly everything: 1) White, 2) Ivory, 3) Biscuit, 4) Dark Beige, 5) Light Brown, 6) Dark Chocolate, 7) Pale Grey, 8) Grey, 9) Battleship, 10) Dark Grey, 11) Black, 12) Pale Mint, 13) Mint, 14) Apple, 15) Pale Sage, 16) Moss, 17) Bottle Green, 18) Baby Pink, 19) Dusty Pink, 20) Magenta, 21) Dark Red, 22) Cerise, 23) Amethyst, 24) Dark Amethyst, 25) Lilac, 26) Pale Blue, 27) Turquoise, 28) Pale Aqua, 29) Royal Blue, 30) Navy Blue, 31) Lemon If you are not sure which colour you may need we are obviously more than happy to match or contrast the lining, just give us the instruction and we can pick one for you. 60” (152 cm) wide; £2.75 per metre
X11 ZIPS - SKIRT 40p each d) Beige e) Ivory i) Green m) Burgundy
X12 ZIPS - DRESS 22” (56 cm) long good quality dress zips: £1.00 each a) Black b) White c) Ivory d) Beige e) Navy f) Cream g) Grey h) Brown
£3.00 each
X19 Hook and Loop a) 25 mm wide black touch and close
X6 INTERFACING - TRADITIONAL
c) Cream h) Pale Pink l) Red p) Jade
X17 THREAD - REELS
5000 metre cones of 120’s polyester thread. a) Black b) White c) Cream
36” wide white iron on interfacing. a) Medium weight: b) Light weight:
7” (18 cm) long good quality skirt zips:
£1.50 each
X18 THREAD - CONES
X5 INTERFACING - IRON ON
b) White g) Grey k) Pale Blue o) Dark Grey
£2.00 per pack
X14 STITCH RIPPERS
Very good quality 60 in (152 cm) wide unbleached medium weight cotton calico. Unfortunately the price of cotton has soared so this is now.
a) Black f) Brown j) Navy Blue n) Claret
Pack of Assorted Sewing Machine Needles:
All £1.00 metre
X20 WADDING 54” wide (2 oz in old money) polyester wadding, the quilter’s favourite weight it would appear:
£3.50 per metre
X21 ZIPPADEDODAH This is a list of zips that have arrived as a job lot, most of them concealed zips and in a fair old variety of colours. All nylon all YKK and they are as follows; Concealed 23cm long (9”). c) White d) Cream e) Dark Red f) Cerise g) Purple h) Coral j) Jade Non-concealed (ie the ordinary) 20 cm (8”) long l) Navy m) Dark Navy Big choice in this one! All one price 50p each, and that’s cheap.
X22 22” Concealed Zips 22” long good quality concealed dress zips a) Black b) Dark Navy c) Pale Pink f) Puce g) Wine h) Cerise Stone j) Pale Blue k) Red l) Pink n) Ivory o) Bottle Green
£1.75 each d) Beige i) Light m) Purple
X25 White cotton bunting crafting and sewing tape ¾”(19mm) wide a) 25p per metre or b) £8.00 per 50 meter roll.
X26 PINS Perfect box of pins for helping to hold you fabric together while you make up your creations.
2.5cm £2.00 per box
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