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  1. Dress Lining Fabric

    Dress Lining Fabric is a very important but often overlooked item which is imperative for use alongside many of our dressmaking fabrics. Dress Lining Fabrics is a lightweight fabric used for a number of reasons, most often to assist the dressmaker in achieving a neat, professional finish to their garments by concealing interfacing, padding and raw seam edges. Dress Lining...
  2. Chiffon Fabric

    We carry a wide range of Chiffon Fabric in a variety of colours and weights, suitable for an extensive range of projects including evening wear, bridal gowns and delicate accessories. Chiffon Fabric derives it's name from the French word for cloth and is a lightweight, sheer fabric and is one of the most popular items in our dressmaking fabric collection...
  3. Linen Fabric

    Linen Fabric is one of the most popular products in our dressmaking collection. Most popular during the warmer months of summer, Linen Fabric is renowned for it's coolness and is utilised during higher temperatures to keep the wearer cool and fresh. Ideal for creating lightweight clothing and undergarments, Linen Fabric is still as popular as ever during the winter as...
  4. Power Net Fabric

    Power Net Fabric is an excellent choice for both underwear and dance costumes. Power Net Fabric (also known as body stocking) is a lightweight, mesh fabric which is most often used as a base layer for dance costumes, leotards and ice skating costumes. Despite it's mesh appearance, Power Net is a firm fabric which provides excellent coverage to the...
  5. Microfibre Fabric

    Microfibre Fabric is one of our most popular dressmaking fabrics due to it's beautiful silky surface and stunning drape. Microfibre Fabric is a excellent quality polyester fabric which is most popular with customers creating evening wear items such as gowns and elegant blouses. This exquisite fabric is always a popular choice for ladies clothing as it is a particularly flattering...
  6. Bridal Fabrics at Calico Laine

    Your wedding day is perhaps the most important day of your life and of course all brides to be want every detail to be perfect however, there are so many things to organise for a wedding celebration to run smoothly and making so many choices can sometimes be a little overwhelming. The biggest part of any wedding day is bound...
  7. Haberdashery at Calico Laine

    Haberdashery (or rather, haberdasher) is a word that I first became familiar with whilst reading Chaucers' Canterbury Tales at school. Traditionally, a haberdasher was a peddler who would sell small articles for hand making clothes such as buttons, threads and zips. Since the days of Chaucer, the word Haberdashery has come to be an all encompassing terms for small tools used...
  8. Wedding Fabrics for Bespoke Bridal Gowns

    This time of year, as wedding season is in full swing, is the busiest time for sales of our Wedding Fabrics. Not only do we receive enquiries from customers looking to design and create their own design of bespoke bridal gown, we also receive a high amount of enquiries from dressmakers tasked with repairing and remaking gowns for brides who...
  9. Dressmaking Fabrics - Sixties Fashion

    Cilla Black was an icon of sixties fashion. Recently, we have bid a sad farewell to local legend and television icon Cilla Black. Over recent Dressmaking Fabrics of what is widely remembered as one of the most exciting decades in our home town of Liverpool. Despite the industrial decline and social deprivation which blighted the city during this decade...
  10. Floral Dress Fabrics

    Holly Willoughby looked stunning in a beautiful floral Dress Fabric at her friends wedding. Last weekend we saw TV personality Declan Donnelly marrying his long term partner at St. Michaels Church in Newcastle and whilst the bride looked stunning in her simple and elegant ivory gown, all eyes were on the celebrity guests. Holly Willoughby is renowned for her...

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