When I have to join fabric strips to make a long line of fabric tape the very obvious method is to make a simple diagonal ...
Stitching with denim fabric cut out from old jeans sound fascinating and looks great when it is some one else's project. It ...
When it comes to dressing, the neckline is one of the most critical factors that can make or break your looks. A good neckline can enhance your looks and flatter your body. But a bad one can wreck the ...
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Any fabric made by weaving yarn is called a woven fabric. As the name ‘woven’ itself indicates, this type of fabric uses two or more yarns to interweave or interlace at right angles to one another.
Tie and dye is a self explanatory term – you just tie and then dye fabric. It is a resist dyeing method in which the areas you do not want dyed are blocked using different methods of tying and then ...
The most water absorbent fabrics are microfiber, cotton, rayon, bamboo, and hemp. For baby products like nappies, soft absorbent fabric is a must – cotton, hemp as well as bamboo are popular. For ...
If you’re a patchwork enthusiast looking to master seamlessly connecting fabric pieces, there are many techniques that not only ensure sturdy joining of these random pieces but also save time sewing ...
As someone passionate about embroidery, I would never want to remove embroidery from clothes. But there are instances where you have to. When the embroidery is in an inappropriate place on your fabric ...
Corsets! How else do you think all those noble ladies of Europe, some hundreds of years ago, managed to look like an hourglass, with a waist that you could span with a hand? The women of those times ...
As we stand on the cusp of a new decade, there is a renewed interest in all the things that happened in the 1920s. Other than the 100 years in between, there is a world of difference between the ...