World Bamboo Day! With Bamboo Jerseys, Towelling, Wadding & Fabric we have a super range of Bamboo Textiles for you. The fabrics cover a range of uses from quilting to dressmaking, apparel, towelling & more! But – what makes Bamboo ideal for textiles: 🌿 Incredibly soft 🌿 Stable & washable 🌿 Temperature regulating 🌿 Naturally
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With more designs than ever in our Luxury Sweatshirt Collection learn more about the rage in This Quick Video. Looking at the designs through to the fabric itself (what makes it luxury) as well as chatting about the best needles & threads for sewing there is lots of info. Luxury Sweatshirting Video Here Luxury Sweatshirt
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With the Great British Sewing Bee bringing more interest than ever to the sewing world all things garment making have rocketed in popularity. We have spotted this across the board but no more so than with questions about Overlocking. Learn more about this incredibly popular and ultra useful technique – particularity what threads are best for the job. Read more…
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With denim being all the rage we couldn’t resist adding these new 10oz Denim Shades that we spotted recently. Although 10oz is heading into what we class as heavier weight, all the fabrics have been industrially washed to give them extra softness. Two of the shades in the weight Light Blue & Mid Blue are
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With adjustable dressforms and fixed sizes learn more about the options you have available to enhance your sewing experience and finished garment. Empress stock both alternatives and both are suited to different needs visit the page for your handy guide…
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Prym Dressmaker’s Ruler In both professional and advanced hobby dressmaking, marking tools are required for a variety of design steps including: Pattern paper preparation. Transfer of the pattern onto your material. Correction of the cut after trying on the garment. Individual adaptation of a tailored cut. View The Dressmaker’s Ruler Many spacings are largely
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Two new ranges of designer elastics from Prym. The options in include Block Colour Elastics (nine shades available) and Design Elastics featuring seven varieties. Both the new ranges are the superb quality you would expect from Prym Haberdashery. What will you use the new elastics for? We are sure you have plenty of ideas but here are a few to inspire you…
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