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Chocolate and Turquoise Shweshwe Fat Quarter

£5.00

6 in stock

A beautiful brown, white and turquoise circular shweshwe print fabric. This is the original shweshwe fabric from South Africa. It is a medium weight cotton with a lovely drape and great for quilting as well as dressmaking. To give you an idea of the scale of the pattern, look at the last image which shows a tape rule with units displayed in inches.

This listing is for one Fat Quarter (18 ins x 20 inches). If you order more than one, you will receive each cut piece as a fat quarter.

FABRIC DETAILS
100% Cotton
Main Colour: Brown
Dimensions: 18 ins x 20 ins (45 cm x 50 cm) approximately

WASHING INSTRUCTIONS
Wash Separately
40 degree wash
Do not bleach
Do not tumble dry
Do not dry clean
Warm Iron

The recommendation is that you ALWAYS WASH Shweshwe fabric before sewing. This will remove the stiffness of the fabric.

ABOUT SHWESHWE FABRIC
Shweshwe is a printed dyed cotton fabric widely used in traditional South African clothing; dresses, skirts, and so on. It was originally dyed indigo but is now manufactured in a variety of colours and designs. The formal name for shwe shwe is ‘Indigo-dyed discharge printed fabric’. It is a trademarked fabric and is manufactured by Da Gama Textiles in the Zwelitsha township outside King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Weight 0.04 kg

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