by Heather Luke | Jun 23, 2015
A variation on resist dyeing, it is a decorative textile dying technique found throughout the world in many variations. Tie-dye involves strategically tying certain areas of cloth and dipping either just the tied section or the whole piece into dye or bleach. When...
by Heather Luke | Jun 23, 2015
Any length of any material such as ribbon, tape, rouleau, torn lengths or strips of lace, raffia or other fabric long enough to tie into knots, used for decorative and/or practical purposes. Ties serve practical purpose to hold one thing to another in the...
by Heather Luke | Jun 23, 2015
A strong, closely woven cotton or linen with a fine stripe running through it, used for covering feather cushions and mattresses. Its characteristic tight, herringbone weave repels feathers that might poke through. It is not usually pre-shrunk, and is also...
by Heather Luke | Jun 23, 2015
Or yarn dyed, describes when the thread or yarn is dyed to its end colour before being made up – i.e. woven or...
by Heather Luke | Jun 23, 2015
The number of warp and weft threads per each square cm or inch of cloth, counted through a specially calibrated magnifying disc. The convention of fabric measurement is ‘warp before weft’ so that a given dimension of 20/24 means that there are 20...
