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"The cloth is woven in a three to one herringbone twill, rare and quite special."
"Essentially, cotton sateen is cotton threads made up in this satin weave, making for the most wonderfully soft and smooth bedding."
"Merino wool has been around for centuries but in recent years it's made a real resurgence as an almost super fabric."
"There is a massive massive difference when you're feeling the quality of knitwear."
"You think about the journeys that these textiles took to come all the way to your northern town, and you can do amazing things with them."
"Textile is a part of our human existence."
"Fabric comes from any sort of fiber, so the fiber gets spun into a yarn, the yarn gets woven into a fabric, and that is how fabric is made."
"Mixing in polyester helps give the fabric some stretch, helps the cotton fibers hold together because this will be made with cheaper shorter cotton fibers and some resistance to shrinking in the wash and it helps keep the cost down."
"Can you sublimate on a black T-shirt? Well, it depends. If it's polyester, yes you can sublimate on a black polyester T-shirt."
"Indigo can be changed in multiple variations. Indigo is probably one of the most amazing dyes that is used because of the character and how it originated into denim."
"You want to think about what you will end up in the front because the texture of the loop pile can be very visible."
"Factory production and above all in the textile industry is the leading edge of the Industrial Revolution."
"So after 35 loads of laundry later, we have our answer. Basically, I would say that sublimation and infusible ink, artistry markers, which are sublimation ink in marker form, all are equal and definitely the longest-lasting product on your shirt."
"The term ‘denier’ refers to the weight in grams of 9 kilometres of yarn."
"Linen holds its shape really well."
"The fabric is so thick that my loom is pretty much already filled up."
"drops air is such a nice Airy fiber"
"So this is a repeat print and the reason why is because if I simply copy and paste this and then I drag it to match the other side, you can see that it's seamless."
"I'm so glad that I have this piece of fabric. It's so beautiful."
"The whole reason fleece was created was to solve a lot of problems that wool has. So first of all, fleece doesn't fray or ravel."
"It's hand spun wool for a skirt that I've made before."
"I've dyed the fleece, spun, applied it, washed it; it's Oxford down from my friend's sheep."
"The Tarkan dress is the oldest woven garment in the world."
"After wet finishing, it'll be even tougher because those fibers will take on the water, they'll plump up, and then they'll go down again and they'll all settle into place and be one happy family."
"Crazy quilting is such a lovely freeform."
"Did you know that one cotton bale can produce over 200 pairs of jeans?"
"I love how the shearing looks on this floral fabric."
"This is wool; it needs to be blocked to get into its final form."
"This is vintage and this is slow stitched, hand stitched."
"I love that richly designed fabric with the flower patterns all over it."
"Merino wool is some of the finest and softest available."
"What a beautiful beanie, it looks so much like knit as well."
"It's beautiful, it's so lightweight, it's chain spun, I love this."
"The wonderful detail of the veil over the head of the Virgin, which is that same blue mantle but reversed, showing this darker blue-blackish color with gold polka dots."
"This fabric is amazing, very chunky nap, genuine Donegal, very old type."
"I made a wool, that means I'm warm, comforting, and cozy."
"Knits are made just like knitting, they're made of loops and the loops are all looped together."
"Pre-felt is unfelted fiber that has been prepared into sort of a fabric with a needle punch process."
"The honeycomb stitch is created by alternating between the Tunisian simple stitch and the Tunisian purl stitch."
"The drape on the merino yak nylon yarn is phenomenal."
"The quilting of your quilt is actually when you take your top, your pieced top, layer it together with some batting and some backing."
"This is a ribbing that you might use on the cuff of a sweater or the cuff of a sock; it's a type of pattern that will kind of pull the knitting in some."
"Fiber is a thread of a substance used to make clothes or rope."
"The fabric I decided to work with is lovely, buttery, gorgeous. I am obsessed with this fabric."
"And this will help our scarf have better drape. The finished scarf will then lay better and look nicer and more professional."
"It's super soft and I think this is my new favorite fabric for bag making especially because it doesn't wrinkle."
"Mixing eras is really important and mixing fabrics."
"Embroidery is the language of fabric, spoken through the needle's eye."
"It's pretty much everything you need to know when it comes to creating your own gorgeous, beautiful digital textile prints."
"I love how it has turned out on this fabric."
"If you look at the Hushed at burials, the people were buried in cloth dyed blue with dyer's woad."
"What's really particularly wonderful about it is that it will felt, and it felts beautifully."
"With agitation and heat, the wool fibers will bind to one another and shrink... you'll create a solid fabric rather than the holes that you get with crochet."
"The fabric just came together, and it is so unbelievably soft, I just can't get over it."
"The project really addressed the history of textile recycling and reuse and repair in the community from the 1880s onwards."
"Woolen spun yarns are going to be warmer because they're more insulating."
"This is actually a velvet, so it does have a direction as well; the smooth ways going down."
"We've got these beautiful warm rich Browns and you don't really feel the pink that you feel in the 100% wool."
"I'm pretty obsessed with the fabric it makes, it's amazing."
"In every piece of textile fabric, there are many threads, and some of the threads are more beautiful and lovely, and some are not so beautiful and lovely, but the whole thing ultimately will tell us a story."
"Once you have the finished garment, it just softens and softens and softens the more you wear it and the more you wash it."
"Wool has some great antimicrobial properties; it has moisture-wicking properties."
"It's very soft, is it scarfable? It'll pass your test, I promise you."
"It really is very warm because of the mohair."
"Silk is so luxurious and it has so many benefits."
"I'm really excited about it though. I'm stitching this on 36 count uh Picture This plus Legacy."
"It has the authentic Harris Tweed Authority label which you can only get when it's authentic Harris Tweed."
"I think this one will be fabulous in repeat; it gives that chain effect."
"The higher the thread count, the tighter the weave, the smoother the surface."
"It's just a beautiful quilt and a beautiful cross stitch, I love it."
"Belgian linen will be something that we just always, always reach for."
"Silk has very little memory, which is why it's excellent for lace and drapes beautifully."
"Cotton is a wonderfully fabulous fabric textile in that it stretches and it shrinks to a certain degree, and you can manipulate cotton."