Notes from the cloth counter
Fabric, craft and trade notes from a third-generation draper.
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Reading Fabric Quality: A Parent’s Buying Guide
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Parents ask me the same question in different words: how do you tell, standing in a shop or staring at a product page, whether a fabric is actually good? You cannot crush the corner in your fist through a screen. But you can learn to… Read more →
A Draper’s View: Why Cotton Remains King
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Every few seasons someone at a trade fair tells me cotton is finished. Too thirsty, too common, too old-fashioned; the future, they say, is in bamboo blends, recycled polyesters, fibres spun from milk or seaweed. I nod, take the swatch card, and go back to… Read more →