Tropical Animals is one of our growing collection of furnishing fabrics. It has beautiful tropical birds ( I believe one is a grey-crowned crane) and plants as well as these gorgeous Zebras! A lush palette of greens and greys with deep red highlights against a cream/beige background. Manufactured in South Africa, this cotton and linen …
What is Adire? Adire is the name for resist dyed cloth of the Yoruba people in Southern Nigeria. Traditionally, the cloth was folded, pleated, and tied before dyeing in Indigo to produce lengths of cloth which were then made up into garments. The fabric was predominantly produced by women. As techniques, trade and materials evolved, …
Our colour of the week is a shweshwe fabric colourway. On our website, we call this colourway Circus. It is a combination of blue, yellow and pink and is Colourway 491 of Dagama textiles shwehshwe collection. A cheery option for many sewing or crafting projects. It is also a great choice for children too. We …
In these surreal times, people are finding ways to cope and keep busy and positive. The feedback has been that sewing is one way to do just that. Whilst we are able to ship items we continue to process and send out orders. So for those of you that are catching up on your creative …
We are excited to announce that we have the brand new shweshwe colourway in stock! It is colourway 191 and is a simply gorgeous mix of blue, orange and green against a black background. It makes for a rather handsome range of fabrics. You may have noticed that we name the shweshwe patterns here on …
From our selection of Quirky Prints, we have this funky retro roller skate print in a number of colourways. As with all of our wax prints, these are 100% cotton and a medium weight. This makes them great for dressmaking as well as other sewing and crafting uses. The ‘crisp hand’ of the cotton print …
Check out our section of fabrics on clearance, with discounts up to 50% on batiks and prints. Grab them while you can as these lines are the last in stock and will not be coming back!
This new batik from Nigeria is my current favourite out of all the new batiks we just received. We have loads of new batik designs and we are slowly getting them photographed and listed on the site so watch this space. This one is a speckled, mottled mix of greens, pale peach, white and more. …
Our fabric of the week is a colour combination; turquoise and chocolate brown. We have a selection of shweshwe prints in this particular colour and there is something just so rich and even regal about the combination. They work beautifully together, as well as on their own. We even sampled the Wiksten Kimono Jacket in …
Our fabric of the week is more a colour theme rather than a particular fabric. It is Purple Batiks! All are handmade batiks from Nigeria and Ghana made using the wax resist technique and with the main colour of purple. When you think of the colour purple, what comes to mind? I think of grapes …
