Calico Laine

When it comes to sewing, one of my favourite things to make is a huge, beautiful ballgown made to fit perfectly, using top quality Dressmaking Fabrics from Calico Laine. Nearly every girl likes to feel like a princess and I am no exception! As such, one of the newest costumes that I have been inspired to make is an amazing...

At Calico Laine we get regular deliveries of brand new fabrics from different warehouse suppliers and once these arrive with us our web team have a step to step process of putting these products onto our website. Firstly the stock needs to be checked and counted by the manager to make sure all the new products are accounted for. Once...

We currently have two stores located on the Wirral in neston and liscard that are a great success and are visited daily by regular and new customers. Calico Laine first came about in 1973 with market stalls based in liverpool, birkenhead and chester that started off selling regular items such as fabrics and essential haberdashery items which over time become...

On saturday we held our first event here at Calico Laine Textiles especially to celebrate the queens birthday. Our event was called the british bonanza and it included everything british with the red, white and blue colour scheme shown all around. We decided to do this event to reward our existing and loyal customers and also to gain new customers...

When you begin dressmaking, and on any course you take you will be shown, one of the most important tasks before you start is measuring your body! Lets face it, no one particularly wants to measure their body for the silly fear of maybe growing an inch or two around the waist, but if you want to make the perfect...

If you are dressmaker it is important to have a fabric and haberdashery supplier that you can rely on for all sewing needs and at Calico Laine Textiles we believe we can be your 'go to' supplier whether it be for fabric, thread or a zip. At Calico Laine we stock some of the biggest names in haberdashery such as Prym, Gutermann and Dylon so you can be...

Here at Calico Laine Textiles our business prides itself on understanding the ever changing and expanding world of craft. As many of our local customers know, our team of dedicated and friendly staff are all lovers of sewing and different crafts so we recognise that nothing is more rewarding and beautiful than creating something with your own two hands. The primary...

Our Calico Laine team have been working on our Pinterest social media site recently looking at all the latest fabric trends and the most popular fabrics sold on our website. On our Pinterest boards we show a range of our fabrics and how these materials can be made up into stunning garments, accessories and interior items giving our followers new...

Today brand new fabrics have arrived including printed chiffons, printed peach skins and a variety of new poly/cotton prints. These new materials are perfect for summer time due to there stunning floral prints and jazzy bright colours ideal for summery skirts and floaty dresses. When new fabrics arrive at our warehouse there is a process we go through to get...

Headphones in, music on, time to concentrate. It is going to be fun and games spending my Tuesday tweaking and then creating a new adwords campaign for Calico Laine, a very time consuming task that happens to be an essential part of what goes on behind the scenes. Once this is all up and running it is something that will require constant monitoring. The main goal is to help drive...