by Heather Luke | Jun 25, 2015
A woven or printed design made up of squares of alternating colours. Checked fabrics can appear modern, yet are as old as the hills, or at least as old as the weaving of wool from sheep grazing there. Home weavers are endlessly inventive, looking for new ideas; once...
by Heather Luke | Jun 25, 2015
A soft silk or acetate fabric mostly used for ties, woven with alternate matte and satin finish stripes within a diagonal rib. Ties are always cut on the bias with a supported interfacing, so that they knot and hang...
by Heather Luke | Jun 25, 2015
A very fine satin silk, cotton or viscose woven fabric with a sheen on the right side and matte finish on the back; the very soft flowing drape makes the fabric especially suited to lingerie, and cut on the cross, or bias, it clings to the body. It is a difficult...
by Heather Luke | Jun 25, 2015
Silk woven from the fibres of wild silk worms; the slubbed and unevenly spun yarns make a coarse weave, which, in its natural coloured state with the impurities left in, shows an array of tones from off white to brown. Chapa silk comes bleached and in colours from...
by Heather Luke | Jun 25, 2015
An elaborate hand stitched bobbin lace, specific to the village Chantilly in France, floral and designed onto a hexagonal mesh ground, outlined with heavy silk thread. ...
