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Firestorm Polyester Jersey - REF: CM223 Page 6
New Tweed - REF: CM218b Page 12
Miss Saigon - REF: CM268 Page 8
Fustian Cotton Needlecord - REF: CM257a Page 6
Give Us A Swirl - REF: CM259 Page 6
Ambersous Cotton Flannel - REF: CM244a Page 3
Do You Remember - REF: CM254 Page 5
Second Skin Baby Cord - REF: CM277 Page 11
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The Good the Bad and the Ugly Belated New Year greetings to you all and, just like the Coalition, I can promise that it is a New Year. Like everything else cloth will come and cloth will go. Airplanes will continue to be full wherever they are going and there will be a hosepipe ban - you just wait! The daily weather report reminds us that this is colder than normal but what is the norm? It could be 28°C by the end of March and summer over with by May, who knows what is in store for 2013. Never wanting to predict we have everything, fabrics for the good the bad and the ugly, weather that is. We have super black suiting
A Black as night poly/cotton shirting with a lovely soft finish.
60” (152cm) wide
£3.00 per metre
✿✿ After The Storm A cotton poplin with a very colourful Hawaiian/ south sea island print depicting the sea and sunshine, flowers, sailing boats and palm trees. It is in blues, greens, yellows and white. Truly outstanding.
REF: CM240
A 100% cotton chambray shirting. Not a traditional chambray where there is as much white as blue, this has more prominent blue yarns than white and it has a very faint twill weave. A good weight as in heavy shirting/skirt/summer trouser like fabric. It is a lovely shade of blue and the cloth is outstanding.
REF: CM243
60” (152cm) wide
£5.50 per metre
✿✿ A Faltering Federer
60” (152cm) wide
£6.50 per metre
✿✿ APPROPOS
60” (152cm) wide
For some reason we said this was green in our last catalogue, a typo error. 70% cotton 30% linen cloth in Ivory which is probably made for shorts or trousers maybe for tennis players, as wonderful as Roger Federer is. Sadly we have an odd 10mtrs which has got a rogue yarn in it. This yarn is about 12” in from one of the selvedges and isn’t constant, it’s picked up a bit of dye from somewhere it shouldn’t have done and it didn’t bleach out. So it’s marred so instead of £10.00mtr it’s only £3.50mtr.
REF: CM195
Almost 60” (152 cm) wide exceptional black cotton/lycra jersey with an embroidered floral jersey ribbon pattern.This is a heavy weight jersey which feels superb, picture on the back page.
REF: CM241
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✿✿ As Near As
✿✿ ACE OF SPADES REF: CM239
fabrics, wonderful cords, moleskins, waterproofs, fleece, beautiful new cotton lawns and poplins and stunning dress fabrics to dress you up too. We hope you are well and that this catalogue has something for you. We have a little questionnaire at the end of the catalogue so if you are returning your order by post, via the web or over the phone just let us know your thoughts if you could. Happy Sewing.
£8.00 per metre
✿✿ ART DECO
60” (152cm) wide
£3.50 per metre
✿✿ Alternative Therapy A 30% wool 70% viscose dress fabric, the base cloth is a dark brown with a hint of brown perhaps, upon which are printed little explosive star shapes, almost firework display like. Have you got the drift, when a rocket goes up it explodes into thousands of little bursty things, well it’s like that. It has a lovely soft hand and I suspect it is made as an alternative to viyella, Made in Italy and is very classy.
REF: CM197a
56” (142 cm) wide
£9.50 per metre
✿✿ Amber Nectar
A ruched polyester from evening jackets in dark brown with a paler brown random line woven pattern.
REF: CM242
52” (132 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
Whilst I wouldn’t wish any cloth to remind anyone of beer this particular amber cloth I have to tell you about is perhaps a bit more of a Polynesian gold and I know you will be wondering how on earth does he know what that’s all about and I can only tell you it comes from one of the Technicolor films we have just been talking about. Coffee coloured might be the way that advertising people would describe it now if it was make-up, a glorious sultry, amber/gold. It is actually a film adhered to a thin black polyester jersey. Exactly what you would use it for I am unsure. Lightweight and pliable because it’s a knitted fabric, I am told it was used for blouses and dresses. The price is almost worth the colour alone.
REF: CM197b
60” (152 cm) wide
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✿✿ AMBERSOAS
✿✿ BATTLESHIP Finely woven polyester, with a synthetic rubber coating. It is completely waterproof. I can’t believe it’s entirely breathable; however it is in a fulsome battleship grey colour.
REF: OT14
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
✿✿ Big Softy a) Crushed strawberries
Magnificent cotton flannel shirting in two colours, both are very soft. a) Crushed strawberries b) Pale crushed chestnut (which could be painful)
REF: CM244
60” (152cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
Cotton elastane needlecord shirting/trousering not unlike fabrics seen on the catwalk for designers like Burberry. This is really soft and if you are looking on the web, I know Caroline may struggle to get the photo to give an exact colour representation but this is a nice light beige/creamy colour, it will go with a lot of stuff.
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
56” (142 cm) wide
£8.00 per metre
We somethines seem to have a void of black suiting fabrics but here we have a selection of 3 very different types. The Hour 60in (152cm) Black Knitted fabric 70% wool 30% nylon mid weight jersey which will certainly accentuate the positive and may eliminate the negative.
REF: CM227
60” (152cm) wide
£12.00 per metre
A New Start 60in wide poly/wool/viscose/lycra a wonderful fine gabardine suiting in black. Everything you need and then some.
B ✿✿ Baumgartner
REF: CM223
There is a certain element of boldness about the men who leap from some where around the moon and fall to earth making a soft landing or walk on wires over the Niagara Falls. I would say they must be part crackers. You don’t have to be part crackers to buy this very bold black and white check boucle jacketing. It is an approximately 2” square check and the chunky yarns are slightly proud of the cloth giving it a boucle appearance. It is a mixture of wool polyester and acrylic, has a reasonable weight. Picture on the back page.
REF: CM117
REF: CM246
✿✿ BLACK SUITING BONANZA
✿✿ Arfa
REF: CM182
Soft as you like polyester fleece with an ever so slight shaggy pile. Then there is the colour, a beautiful shade of azure blue, upon which is printed or even embossed teddy bear shapes. The teddy bears are in traditional teddy bear colours with a hint of pink and to show that this could be a night sky there are clouds and shooting stars in white, there are also little rainbows. It’s very much an Ahh! sort of cloth. A child’s dressing gown fabric. There is not a lot of it. Picture on the back page
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
60” (152cm) wide
£7.50 per metre
Reverential 60in wide poly/wool/lycra suiting with a very soft finish which helps with the lovely draping qualities. It comes in deepest black.
REF: CM229
60” (152cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ Blush 60” wide, polyester corduroy. Now I do understand that you can’t have polyester corduroy, but you can have a cloth that looks like cord, which is made from polyester, that’s what this is. A fairly chunky cord but soft, in a very light taupy brown. It drapes beautifully and has a very soft hand. It was made for lightweight jackets I understand, so maybe that’s what you would do, maybe cushions or teddies? It will wear and bounce back because it’s polyester. Cheap enough at £4.00mtr.
✿✿ BASKET CASE
REF: CM181
60” (152 cm) wide
£4.00 per metre
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A cotton/linen/viscose chunky basket weave suiting. Beloved of fifties movies.
REF: CM245
60” (152cm) wide
£7.50 per metre
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✿✿ BLACK COTTON LAWN
✿✿ BRODERIE ANGLAISE TRIM
Extremely fine cotton lawn fabric in black with the absolute finest of dobby pattern in the weave.
REF: MY40b
60” (152 cm) wide
£4.50 per metre
Two absolutely wonderful 60” wide shirting cloths; a) A Time to Remember Beautiful cotton Viyella type check cloth, variety in the weave as well as the colours, beautiful!
REF: CM199
b) Halcyon Days
60” (152cm) wide
b) Halcyon Days Fine fabulous cotton check shirting from a long gone famous mill.
£6.00 per metre
60” (152 cm) wide
£4.75 per metre
A cotton/viscose very fine shirting with a variegated woven self coloured stripe design. Unbelieveably soft in cream with a period sort of aspect. Picture on the back.
45” (114 cm) wide
£4.00 per metre
MR SELFRIDGE This has absolutely nothing to do with him, I am just watching this at the moment and he appears to have been a fabulously flamboyant character, goodness knows what he would have worn for relaxing in, but I think he would have liked this grey magnificent woven check flannel shirting from Portugal, lovely lovely cloth. Picture on the back
58” (147 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
✿✿ BRODERIE ANGLAISE 45” (114 cm) wide
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.50 per metre
C Heap strong but not too heavy plain unbleached cotton canvas.
70” (177 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
Elsewhere I described a cotton canvas in olive green (Platoon), this pure new wool cavalry twill suiting is in a similar but slightly lighter olive green colour, perhaps the two would go together, but would you want so much olive green. There is drab and there is too much drab, a little good, too much not so good. A glorious Yorkshire woven cloth of yesteryear. Magnificent, picture on the back page.
REF: CM250
60” (152 cm) wide
£15.00 per metre
We have a little variety of plain cotton chinos, most of which we’ve had for some time but perhaps they needed re-categorising and here they are: A heavier weight, lightly sanded varieties in a) Pale apple green b) Very dark grey
The lighter weight ones are not sanded and are as follows: d) Sand e) Pale Gold f) Pale Duck egg blue g) Black
REF: OT28
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ CORDUROY We have two colours left in these glorious 8 Wale all cotton corduroys. As you are probably aware not much is made in this country these days and generally not readily available. However these arrived here from a maker in a far of land, originally exported from here it was sent there to be made up but then he went bump the cloth was then brought back here. What a tangle web we weave. c) A dark brown which has a silvery top to the raised portion of the cord e) A pale gold.
Traditional 3 hole design Broderie Anglaise in a) White b) Cream
REF: OT15
REF: CM110
✿✿ CHINO
VEGAS 45” wide, brushed cotton flannel in lots of vibrant colours. 100% cotton, decent quality.
REF: CM249
A polyester voile blouse fabric in black with 5mm wide white and gold horizontal stripes. Looks a little bit like an anaemic bee; perhaps more black than a bee but when you’re in a jam keep going. Wonderfully floaty.
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ BRUSHED Plaids
REF: CM161
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ Cavalry Twill
✿✿ BOUDOIR
60” (152cm) wide
60” (152 cm) wide
✿✿ BZZ
REF: CM180
A fine, soft cotton poplin in dark bottle green.
REF: CM248
REF: CM201
✿✿ Canvas
✿✿ BOTTLE REF: CM247
✿✿ BWHNA A fabulous herringbone weave, cotton trousering in a very dark navy blue. It has been very lightly gone over to give a wonderful hand and very good drape; another trousering from Gurteen.
✿✿ Bouncing Checks
a) A Time to Remember
See X23 in the basics section at the back.
£4.95 per metre
REF: JA1 All 60” wide and an absolute triumph £7.50 per metre
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✿✿ CORD DU NOWT
✿✿ DO YOU REMEMBER HOLLY HOBBIE?
A cotton corduroy in a nice mid grey with almost no cord, just the rib with a satin ‘bottom’. Very different.
REF: CM251
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ COTTON IRON ON INTERFACING - Grey
Do you remember Holly Hobbie? Some of the designs in our new cotton poplin range just remind me of things I had when I was a child. This range of wider cotton poplins are all printed onto a lovely quality cotton poplin which will make up into beautiful garments or craft products and is soft enough for bedding, What? I hear you cry, I realise you are limited to single use with the width. The designs are bright and cheerful with lots of colours. They are a one off, I hope you like them.
See X22 in the basics section at the back.
✿✿ COTTON PIQUÉ This cloth is as good a pique as you will find, it’s tough but soft with a lovely finish, it comes in b) White with a fine pale blue horizontal stripe or c) Grey with a fine black stripe
REF: CM036
64” (162 cm) wide
a) Alana Berry
b) Alana Red
c) Fidget
d) Luella Plum
e) Mandy Mae Violet
f) Mandy Mae Tangerine
g) Millie Mincent
h) Silly Tilly
i) Wendy Wap
£4.50 per metre
✿✿ CHRYSALIS
REF: CM254 A fine cotton in pink with a multi coloured butterfly print. Delightful.
REF: CM252
56” (142 cm) wide
58” (147 cm) wide
£7.50 per metre
✿✿ DIJON
£6.75 per metre
D ✿✿ Déjà vu You may remember this cotton jersey. It was very popular and we have found some more. This is a cotton jersey with an off white ground onto which are printed cerise and taupe and olive flowers. Picture on the back page.
REF: CM253
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ DENIM This is in black, not completely black because it’s made up of black and cream yarns in fairly traditional denim weave. It is about half the weight of the heaviest of denims, which is usually 14oz and needs a bucking bronco to break it in. It is made from cotton polyester and lycra and therefore will wear quite differently and it has a certain elegance to it.
REF: CM178
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
A fine, soft cotton dress velvet in a dark mustardy gold.
REF: CM255
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.50 per metre
✿✿ DOUBLE CORD This is a double cord in that it has one thick whale then one thin whale. Altogether there are 5 of these double whales to the inch, so it is chunkier. It comes in a) A Lovely Gold
b) Pale Rust
REF: JA11 60” wide and an absolute triumph
£7.50 per metre
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✿✿ GINGHAM (1”) 1” (2.5 cm) corded edged gingham, poly/cotton
✿✿ FIRESTORM
a) Emerald Green b) Pale Blue
This is a lightweight jersey which has a burn out which we have tried to show on the picture on the front cover. There are areas within the pattern which make it a little see through. It is really a very nice fabric which will make classy floaty tops which will go with anything; denim, chinos, corduroys. One of those dress up or down type patterns.
REF: CM223
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.50 per metre
✿✿ FINE WATERPROOF
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
✿✿ FLEECED Ex Barbour Fleece in stone. a) Stone
REF: CM256
60” (152 cm) wide
£8.50 per metre
✿✿ FUSTIAN
✿✿ Gingham (1/4”) Poly/cotton 1/4” corded edged gingham in a) Red e) Dark Blue
b) Green f) Black
c) Lilac h) Pale Blue
45” (114 cm) wide
56” (142cm) wide
A very silky polyester with more than a little substance, although quite light. There is an element of a so called animal print in the all over design. It comes in two colourways: a) browns, greys, beige and black
£6.50 per metre
b) black, grey, pink and red
G ✿✿ Go Forth And Multiply
a) Taupe and grey
This cloth seems to have grown since I last saw it. I thought it was 60in wide, but it is more like 66in wide, which is a bit of a bonus if you have enough room. It is stretch denim, a traditional denim weave but finer than normal, so it is not a great clodhopping 14oz denim. This cloth is a little bit more than two thirds of that weight with just enough stretch to make it comfortable. Beautifully made £7.00mtr.
REF: CM258
£5.00 per metre
✿✿ GRRR
b) Goldensand - As above but is a beautiful golden sandy colour.
60” (152 cm) wide
£3.50 per metre
A soft viscose dress fabric in white with a myriad of small flowers all arranged in rows across the cloth. The size range is from small to a little bit bigger, nothing large. They come in tones and shades of pinks and peaches, a bit of blue and a bit if this and that. All very decorative and very pretty.
a) Damson - coloured 12 whale needlecord not as fine as the other needlecords we have had in the past, this has a lot of meat in it, i.e. an awful lot of yarn in this cloth. We only have 20mtrs.
REF: CM257
d) Yellow i) Pink
✿✿ GIVE US A SWIRL
REF: CM259
60in wide fustian, I don’t think anybody makes fustian these days but there was a mill about 20 miles from here who probably made the finest fustians ever, perhaps they still do, I should find out. These cloths are of that ilk.
d) Red
£3.50 per metre
45” (114 cm) wide
REF: OT49
This is all we have left of these now and that is only because we found another bit of this colour. Very fine lightweight polyester cloth in airforce blue, it has a breathable coating applied to one side making it a very pliable, soft cloth. If you want to cover a sleeping bag or repair an old down jacket and you want it to be waterproof, then this is the cloth to do it with.
REF: CM034d
REF: OT50
c) Dark Blue
66” (167 cm) wide
£7.00 per metre
REF: CM260
b) Red and black
56” (142 cm) wide
£6.25 per metre
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✿✿ IN MY LADIES CHAMBER
✿✿ ITALIAN PRINTS
d) Shuttlecock
f) Exhibition
Silky soft, fine cotton Italian lawns, light as a feather with lots of lovely colour.
REF: CM070
56” (142 cm) wide
£12.00 per metre
A polyester silk satin in cream with an intricate woven self-colour variable stripe pattern. Butter soft.
REF: CM263
60” (152 cm) wide
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✿✿ If Only
✿✿ JASON BOURNE
These are two differently designed wonderfully soft silky polyester cloths, I know it’s a bit of a daft thing to say, but you don’t know these things from silk these days, except that silk is extremely expensive and a natural fibre. a) An all over colourful design with amongst other abstract goings on is a paisley print and comes in black, orange, pale blue, pale turquoise, pale lemon, and green. These are pretty much in equal amounts. It is a very colourful exquisite design. b) A sort of poppy design but not in red. The colours are oranges, mauves, lilac, blues, on a pale background colour that is twixed fuchsia and cerise. Whilst this is an all over design it’s reasonably large and quite sprawley.
REF: CM261
54” (137 cm) wide
£7.00 per metre
Now you see this then you don’t. A soft open weave ivory cotton muslin with dense satin spots randomly woven in. Picture on the back.
REF: CM264
54” (137 cm) wide
£5.50 per metre
✿✿ JERSEYS - COTTON Medium weight good quality cotton jerseys in different widths, different colours, different texture but all beautifully made in cotton. a) white b) Pale blue d) Dark dusky rose e) Mink
c) Forrest Green
REF: OT64 At least 60” up to 68” (152-160cm) wide £ 5.25 per metre
✿✿ IMAGINE Stretch solid body polyester lace in glorious aubergine. Quite dense and weighty and very wearable.
REF: CM262
£6.00 per metre
52” (132 cm) wide
✿✿ Jerseylicious
£6.00 per metre
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This is a lovely white jersey fabric with a horizontal ruche in stripes. I think this will make expensive looking tops. The floaty type covering all that you need to. The fabric is 100% cotton but the detail has elastane to ruche it. You will like this.
REF: CM172
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
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✿✿ MISS SAIGON A softly textured polyester dress fabric in a dramatic, fairly large abstract design.
✿✿ LEGGIT This is an interesting fabric probably made for leggings but would make a dazzling top, it is a silvery grey metallic stretch ‘denim’ made from cotton with polyester and lycra. Almost a jersey in construction, light weight, soft, comfortable cloth.
REF: CM265
60” (152 cm) wide
REF: CM268
✿✿ Misty £5.00 per metre
Italian cotton lawn in a lovely misty floral design in
a) Mauve/lilac/mustard/pale/yellow/grey on a cream ground. b) Pale blue/dark blue/peach/pale/orange/green on a cream ground.
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They have an almost ethereal quality. The cloth itself is divine you can see them on the back page.
✿✿ MALINKY
REF: CM269
A floral satin dress fabric which is very soft, it comes in a fabulous multicoloured floral pattern it has quite a large repeat but there is enough going on for that not to matter. This will make a fabulous dress or even one of those slinky gowns in which you can pose over a chaise longue. In fact most of this fabric was bought by a lady who is making up such items for the Arab market.
REF: CM194
£6.00 per metre
60” (152 cm) wide
60” (152 cm) wide
£8.95 per metre
56” (142 cm) wide
✿✿ MOLESKIN Three finest possible British cotton moleskin fabrics in a) Navy
REF: CM270
b) Camel
60” (152 cm) wide
c) Very dark brown
£10.00 per metre
✿✿ Maisey £5.50 per metre
✿✿ MINSTREL
1 metre wide or 39in, cotton guipure lace. I did that just to attract your attention, it’s not guipure lace but a very good imitation. It is white with a traditional floral “Victorian” design, which in those times might well have been used for sleeping hats. You don’t see a lot of this, it’s not stretch lace it’s rigid.
REF: CM271
39” (100 cm) wide
£7.00 per metre
✿✿ MUSTIQUE
A white cotton/linen dress fabric with an all over black abstract ‘floral’ print.
REF: CM266
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ MARMITE You will either love this or you won’t. I do as it is quite unusual ,it is a discharge printed cotton polyester velour fabric. The background is a chestnut mushroom colour with a wonderful flower design in pinks oranges and more. It is lovely and soft and will be comfy to wear. Picture on the back page.
REF: CM267
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.25 per metre
We still have this in as we bought some much of it, maybe that was silly but it really is a super quality polyester chiffon printed in Germany by the best transfer printers. Originally named Mustique because one can imagine floating a) Mint b) Orange around on the Island in something made up in this. Oh to Dream! There are still 2 colours available so maybe those who have not already been persuaded can be this time.
REF: CM152
58” (147cm) wide
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✿✿ McCamish
✿✿ OAP A superfine cotton lawn in a very colourful floral paisley design. For beach robes next summer. Picture on the back page.
REF: CM274
58” (142 cm) wide
£6.50 per metre
P ✿✿ Pancho Villa
Beautiful Irish suiting wool clothing a plaid perfect for lightweight trousering and shirting
REF: CM127f All 60” (152 cm) wide
£9.50 per metre
N ✿✿ Navy Voile 60” (152 cm) wide navy blue poly/cotton voile with a slightly crinkled finish. Quite a bit of body but not heavy.
REF: CM158
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
Not seen since the halcyon days of crimplene, this modern day version of that all-purpose, hard wearing, indestructible suiting cloth sits before me. Made in polyester/lycra with lots of stretch it comes in dark clerical grey. Retro.
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.50 per metre
60” (152 cm) wide
£4.00 per metre
✿✿ PERMANENCE REF: CM039
100% superior quality cotton poplin in b) Purple
REF: OT86
✿✿ Onesie
52” (132 cm) wide
£4.50 per metre
✿✿ PLAIN DYED POPLIN a) Red
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c) Claret
45” (114 cm) wide
d) Emerald
£5.50 per metre
✿✿ PLATOON
All the rage apparently, we have 3 fleeces
a) Pretty polyester fleece in a dark brown with an all over spot print in white, pale orange, pale green, pale turquoise, darkish red and cerise. The spots are about half a centimetre in diameter and whilst it’s quite soft it is suitable for children’s outdoor wear but not to be used as a be all and end all to keep the cold out. b) Navy – Plain Mid Navy
REF: CM273
REF: CM275
Fine polyester cheesecloth in dark cream with a crease/pleated finish. Lovely hand and drapes well.
✿✿ NOW HERE’S A THING
REF: CM272
In my time as a producer and purveyor of cloth it’s fair to say I haven’t come across anything that is quite like this 60in wide, fairly soft but substantial brushed cotton. Upon it is an artist’s impression of what chaos must be like, if you could in fact draw chaos. Lots of shapes, leaves, flowers, there looks to be half a teapot, and a little bit of checkerboard. All this in colours ranging from black, through brown, orange, yellow, turquoise, mid blue and mustard. It is a stunning cloth but I am not so sure what you might do with it, a big shirt perhaps..
60” wide very superior cotton canvas in olive green. There must be an army somewhere that dresses in this colour, but who would wish for a cloth as tough and yet as soft as this is for a uniform. You will make outstanding beautiful items from this cloth.
REF: CM207
We have had this before and it proved very popular, I know many of you were disappointed so maybe you will be happy we have found some more, maybe you have moved on. This is not corduroy but a bedford cord, which is pretty much like corduroy except it hasn’t had the raising of the ribs in the cord.
£8.25 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 of delivery of your fabrics.
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ PRINTED CORD
c) White – Plain White
56” (142 cm) wide
60” (152 cm) wide
REF: CM276
60” (152cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
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✿✿ POPLIN PRINTS new designs added All these poplins are beautifully woven and a lovely hand.
The Crafty Spot - Red REF: PP10d
The Crafty Spot - Baby Pink - REF: PP10c
The Crafty Spot - Dark Navy - REF: PP10f
The Crafty Spot - Pale Blue - REF: PP10b
The Crafty Spot - Dusky Pink - REF: PP10e
The Crafty Spot - Navy REF: PP10g
The Crafty Spot Old Green REF: CM042
The Crafty Spot - Sage REF: PP10a
Say it with flowers Slate - REF: PP3a
Say it with flowers Black - REF: PP3b
Austen - Grey REF: PP24
Ellen - Black REF: PP11a
Wat Spot - Pale Blue REF: PP9c
Wat Spot - Red REF: PP9b
Pollyanna - White REF: PP13b
Arabelle - Green REF: PP38a
Duchess - Grey REF: PP23c
Pretty Polka - Blue REF: PP4b
50’s Polka - Cotton Pale Blue REF: PP9a
Flora - Sage REF: PP25
Wimbledon - Navy REF: PP22
Strawberries & Cream REF: PP7
English Rose - Pink REF: PP20a
Mama’s & Papa’s REF: PP8
Tulip REF: PP32
Tammy - Cream REF: PP17
Angelina REF: PP29
Gaga REF: PP33
Grace - Ivory REF: PP31a
Grace - Blue REF: PP31b
Zandra REF: PP39
Nelly REF: PP30
Oklahoma REF: PP34
Olivia - Blue REF: PP35b
Olivia - Green REF: PP35a
Tiny Rose - Yellow REF: PP30a
REFERENCES AS ABOVE
45” (114 cm) wide
£6.95 per metre
✿✿ PRETTY POLLY Half decent poly/cotton cloth with the following prints:
Daisy Boo- REF: PC3b
REFERENCES AS ABOVE
Molly - REF: PC4b
45” (114 cm) wide
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Put The Kettle On - REF: PC4a
£4.00 per metre
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✿✿ POPLIN - WHITE 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 endeavour 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
60” (152 cm) wide
✿✿ SECOND SKIN
£5.25 per metre
✿✿ PS. I Love You A black horizontally pleated satin, the sort of stuff when used ‘tother’ way up, longitudinally, makes skirts that both cling and swirl and could almost be a one size fits all situation. Having said that don’t scrimp, otherwise the pleats the pleats won’t be pleats will they. It could almost be something for those “ I want to be alone” moments with a fag, a cup of tea and Coronation Street.
REF: CM208
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.00 per metre
£4.50 per metre
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As summery as you are going to get, this 100% cotton seersucker which is a bit of a rarity is an 1/8 of an inch check in
REF: OT97
b) Pale blue and white
45” (114 cm) wide
£5.50 per metre
✿✿ SHINE ON
REF: CH29
60” (152 cm) wide
£10.00 per metre
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b) Silver
44” (112 cm) wide
£4.25 per metre
✿✿ Pale Rider Polyester lightweight strawcloth in a lovely mint green with a pretty dainty floral pattern.
REF: CM279
45” (114 cm) wide
£3.25 per metre
✿✿ Start As You Mean To Go On
✿✿ RACING SILK 100% polyester artificial silk in a) Red
b) Blue
57” (145 cm) wide
£2.75 per metre
This red cotton drill has been given a flame-retardant backing. It doesn’t do anything special apart from not burning. It doesn’t make a great deal of difference to how the fabric behaves except, perhaps, to make it a tad stiffer than it otherwise would be. It is still quite malleable though but being cotton and a drill it is obviously very strong.
60” (152 cm) wide
65% viscose/20% polyester/15% linen dress fabric in black, which has a random all over permanent creasing. It doesn’t look creased in the sense that it has all been scrunched up, these are designer creases and in its way it is attractive. A dress weight cloth with a little bit of open weave so there is a bit of a see through element about it so a liberty bodice wouldn’t go amiss. Rather nice.
REF: CM211
✿✿ RED IS THE COLOUR
REF: CM149
✿✿ SEERSUCKER
a) Gold
60” wide faux fur coating fabric in chocolate brown which has been quilted to a polyester peach skin finished backcloth. The backcloth has then been embroidered and embellished with rows of tiny shiny sequins. Described as being reversible, who knows, you would probably want to wear the fur on the outside all the time but if you didn’t you would have something that had an evening appearance. Very different and special.
REF: MY27
£5.75 per metre
Gold or silver lame. For decoration, for dress, for furnishing even. High gloss mirror finish.
✿✿ QUILTED FUR
REF: CM189a
56” (142 cm) wide
Both would look ever so pretty in a tiny dress with puff sleeves.
Beautifully made fine cotton crépe in pure white. Soft as the proverbial. Gorgeous. Exactly the same fabric as we had before except this is pure white.
60” (152 cm) wide
REF: CM277
a) Pink and white
✿✿ PURE WHITE MISCHIEF REF: CM150
A softer than down cotton baby cord shirting in burnt orange. Gets you all of a quiver, doesn’t it?
£5.00 per metre
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
✿✿ STRETCH VELVET 60” wide, 98% cotton with 2% Lycra velveteen dress fabric in dark chocolate brown a reasonable weight even though it is quite fine, perfect for trousers skirts and jackets with the Lycra to give it the extra comfort.
REF: CH30
60” (152 cm) wide
£10.00 per metre
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✿✿ THE ROSE
✿✿ TAHITI 60” (152 cm) wide polyester crepe de chine in a gloriously colourful floral design. Very soft and drapey. A good hiding cloth.
REF: CM133
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.75 per metre
A rather beautiful all over rose design in a viscose acetate brocade-like cloth in shdes and tones of taupe, grey, pink and brown with red roses. Exquisite. Bette Midler’s version is best!!!
✿✿ Tax Haven REF: CM280
64” wide (162 cm)
£8.25 per metre
✿✿ THE SPICE OF LIFE A plain weave, the checks are in shades and tones of cream, green and mustard with fine line over-checks in all these colours plus a pale blue. Woven polyester satin in white with an abstract ‘tropical’ floral design in purple/pale gold. The cloth has a lovely hand and is quite substantial.
REF: CM278
56” (142 cm) wide
£10.00 per metre
✿✿ Too Much of a Good Thing
A poly/wool fabric made entirely in Yorkshire, with a lovely silky soft but still firm hand.
REF: OT116a
60” (152 cm) wide
£10.00 per metre
✿✿ TWO OF A KIND 56” (142 cm) wide cotton furnishings, you could even make some nice pinnys out of this superb quality cotton furnishing. a) Shilton A broad strip design with flowers.
Elsewhere in the catalogue you will see a list of woollen coatings that you have been told about before and maybe even seen, there are one or two more here that you haven’t heard of or seen. a) Double Feature - Brown - A herringbone weave one side and plain the other in browns with a backing being of a heathery nature in either in greys and greens on the other. It is obviously reversible and not too heavy despite being two thicknesses. It is the sort of cloth that you make shooting jackets out of and I suspect that is what it was made for, knowing where it was made.
b) Fullbrook A diamond crisscross design.
Both in pale turquoise/rust/green.
REF: CM212
a) Shilton
60” (152 cm) wide
b) Fullbrook
£5.00 per metre
✿✿ TOMBLY
b) New Tweed - A very fine tweed in blues and greys, more of a jacket weight than coating. Picture above. Again on the expensive side but it doesn’t come along everyday.
REF: CM218
60” (152 cm) wide
£20.00 per metre
Samples We offer 5 samples free of charge. 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. a) 1-5 samples; please post your request and include a SAE b) 6-10 samples £2.50 (non-refundable) c) 11-25 samples £5.00 (non-refundable) You can also view all our fabrics at www.croftmill.co.uk
Cotton winceyette in lilac with a pink and purple simple daisy design (looks a bit like a tombliboo).
REF: CM281
45” wide (114 cm)
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✿✿ WATERPROOFS Here is a little selection of so called waterproof fabrics, apparently we are not able to call anything waterproof any more, since once you sew it you might alter the structure of the thing if the coating becomes impaired. Notwithstanding all else these are as near to waterproof as you will get and do repel water. All are 60” (152cm) wide
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b) Hasslehoff - A pale olive/khaki extremely strong breathable treated polyester with an almost Barber like finish. c) Kit - A smooth backed polyester fabric in navy with a water repellent treatment to the other side. d) KnightRider - Another softly sanded polyester canvas with a lightweight breathable water repellent coating to the reverse. This is a deep olive green. All these have featured in an expensive brand of jackets.
REF: CM186 A beautiful soft cotton dress velvet in a tiny black/brown hound tooth check.
REF: CM282
60” wide (152 cm)
£10.00 per metre
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45” (114 cm) wide soft, fine cotton lawn in navy with an all-over printed fancy spot design.
60” (152 cm) wide
£4.50 per metre
✿✿ VISCOSE JERSEYS Viscose Jersey has become very popular as it drapes very well and is nice and soft. These all have Lycra and therefore tend to have a little shine to them. We have some plain and some not, some old and some new. Plains c) Brown d) Marl Grey - mid to dark grey e) Pink - pretty bright - bluey - not peachy pink. f) Black
REF: CM129 All 58” (148 cm) wide
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
✿✿ WOOL COATING
60” (152 cm) wide 70% cotton 30% polyester fine cotton twill made to go into nightshirts and blue willy winkie caps to be sold as Christmas gifts in USA. A lovely soft hand and fairly substantial. Picture on back page.
REF: CM147
£6.00 per metre
✿✿ WHIMSICAL REF: CM283
✿✿ VAN WINKLE
60” (152 cm) wide
£5.00 per metre
I think it’s fair to say that there will not be a repeat as these cloths have been made in this country. What comes from abroad now I am not certain of but I do know that these mills are no longer in existence. So if you want to preserve a bit of history, do your bit. b) Bright Spell - Flannel wool coatings in a melange of many greens, producing a dark lime colour. Is this a cause for excitement or what? Beautiful cloth. g) Brown Flannel - A pure new wool medium weight flannel, a coating weight but of a totally different character to the one above. Gorgeous cloth in a dark, heathery infused brown. h) Navy Flannel - And as above but in navy blue
REF: CM130
60” (152 cm) wide
£20.00 per metre
✿✿ White Cotton Lawn A good quality plain white cotton lawn.
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Ref: CM061
60” (152 cm) wide
£6.95 per metre
✿✿ WAISTCOAT & WAT NOT We have had these for some time under many different guises; the names can confuse us as much as you but the last was a duplicated name so caused no end of bother, hence a new name. These 60” (152cm) wide cloths did arrive from a maker of fine gentlemen’s suitings and because they aren’t suitings I assumed they were linings. Not necessarily. Some were used for waistcoats, others for the backs of waistcoats and - wait for it - travelling dressing gowns and of course exceptional linings. They would make the perfect linings for the wool coatings above to make an exceptionally expensive looking coat.
Can you answer a few questions for us please?
a) Almost Black – This has a black warp and weft but there is a bronze yarn in the warp which makes a tiny pin dot pattern so therefore the fabric doesn’t look jet black, it is not brown but it is not pure black.
In the ever growing cavern that is the World Wide Web we would like to make more of an imprint and would like to make a better website where we have sewing tips and show items that have been made from our fabrics. Nana B is great but we need your help too so we wondered if any of you would be interested in some free fabric in return for your pictures and a write up of tips of how you made the item. If you already have a blog then all the better. If you would like to get involved then please give us a call or drop us a line.
b) French Navy - with a textured weave pattern. c) Silvery - silvery beige with stripes 4.5 cm repeat.
REF: CM002
60” (152 cm) wide
£4.00 per metre
Are there any products or fabrics that you would like to see on a regular basis that we never seem to sell? We are thinking of stopping the return envelope to help save costs and the planet, would this be a problem?
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The Basics X1 BLACKOUT CURTAIN LINING
X15 TROUSER HOOK AND BARS
60” (152 cm) wide standard blackout curtain lining:
£6.00 per metre
X2 CALICO Very good quality 60 in (152 cm) wide unbleached medium weight cotton calico. Unfortunately the price of cotton has soared so this is now.
£5.00 per metre
Best Quality Fiberglass tape measures in metric/imperial one side, imperial only on the other:
£6.50 per metre
450 metre reels of good quality sewing thread. Lots of colours; we can match it for you if you like.
X4 ELASTIC, WHITE 10p per metre 20p per metre 30p per metre 15p per metre
36” wide white iron on interfacing. a) Medium weight: b) Light weight:
£2.00 per metre £1.80 per metre
X6 INTERFACING - TRADITIONAL Cotton/Viscose/Horsehair/Polyester substantial woven suiting interfacing 32” (81 cm) wide: £5.00
£3.00 each
X19 VELCRO
Pack of 12 assorted hand sewing needles.
£2.00 per pack
X8 HEMMING WEB 4 metre cards of hemming web:
70p each
We have good quality polyester linings to match nearly everything: White, ivory, biscuit, khaki, light brown, dark chocolate, pale grey, grey, battleship, dark grey, black, pale mint, mint, apple, pale sage, moss, bottle green, baby pink, pink, dusky pink, magenta, dark red, cerise, amethyst, dark amethyst, lilac, pale blue, royal blue, navy blue, turquoise. 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
c) Cream h) Pale Pink l) Red
X20 WADDING 54” wide (2 oz in old money) polyester wadding, the quilter’s favourite weight it would appear:
£3.50 per metre
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”). b) Very Dark Navy g) Purple
c) White h) Coral
d) Off White i) Sage
e) Red j) Jade
d) Beige e) Ivory i) Green m) Burgundy
Non-concealed (ie the ordinary) 20 cm (8”) long l) Navy m) Dark Navy Big choice in this one!
X22 COTTON INTERFACING One metre (39”) wide iron-on cotton interfacing in grey to be used where you need something of substance to stiffen the sinews: £3.00
£1.00 each
X23 BRODERIE ANGLAISE TRIM
X24 LACE TRIM 35mm White polyester lace trim in a pretty floral design
25p per metre
X25 25p per metre or £8.00 per 50mtr roll.
e) Navy f) Cream g) Grey
X13 SEWING MACHINE NEEDLES - ASSORTED Pack of Assorted Sewing Machine Needles:
per metre
b) 50mm Ivory Broderie Anglaise Trim poly cotton woven in Austria. The finest broderie anglaise is woven in Switzerland and Austria. This is very pretty with a shell motif. 55p per metre
White cotton bunting, craft and sewing tape .¾” (19 mm) wide
X12 ZIPS - DRESS 22” (56 cm) long good quality dress zips:
f) Cerise
All one price 50p each, and that’s cheap.
X9 DRESS LININGS - SUPERIOR QUALITY
7” (18 cm) long good quality skirt zips:
All £1.00 metre
X21 ZIPPADEDODAH per metre
X7 HAND SEWING NEEDLES
b) White c) Ivory d) Beige
5000 metre cones of 120’s polyester thread. a) Black b) White c) Cream
a) 25 mm wide black touch and close c) 20 mm black touch and close
X5 INTERFACING - IRON ON
£2.00 per pack
X14 STITCH RIPPERS Large Stitch rippers:
£1.00 each
X18 THREAD - CONES
a) 5 mm wide: b) 10mm wide: c) 30 mm (1.5 inch wide): d) 7 mm wide:
a) Black
£1.50 each
X17 THREAD - REELS
56” (142 cm) wide sol proof cotton satin, curtain lining in ecru. Will probably last as long as your curtains:
b) White g) Grey k) Pale Blue
£1.20 per pack
X16 TAPE MEASURES
X3 CURTAIN LINING
a) Black f) Brown j) Navy Blue
Trouser hooks and bars, 3 pairs per pack: a) Bright metal b) Black
£1.20 each
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Déjå Vu - REF: CM253
Moleskin - REF: CM270
OAP - REF: CM274
Boudoir - REF: CM248
Baumgartner - REF: CM117
If Only - REF: CM261a
Misty - REF: CM269a
If Only - REF: CM261b
Misty - REF: CM269b
Corduroy - REF: JA1
Mr Selfridge - REF: CM249
Jason Bourne - REF: CM264
Mr Softy - REF: CM246
Appropos - REF: CM241
Marmite - REF: CM267
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