So as the beginning of the new school year starts and as I’m
sure everybody knows; this is my final year of my degree. So I wanted to start
looking into fabrics and what material I’m going to be using coming up to my
final collection.
So in my quest for material-I went to a fabric shop based in
London named the Cloth house.
Well….. I think I have fallen in love! Only thing is I will
be very very poor! The Cloth house
has two separate shops on the same road and stocks the most amazing fabric I
have ever seen!
The Cloth House- loving the colour!
I was interested in metal and plastic based fabrics which
were situated towards the front of the shop and there was everything! My main
fabric I was after was fabric with a Metal thread-quite a rare and
expensive fabric. I was so chuffed to see they had some in a nylon fabric and
in a woollen fabric both with metal threads in them! Both the metal fabric mixes
are £28 per metre-which although is not cheap-I didn’t think was too bad.
Wool and metal fabric.
Nylon and metal fabric.
Other fabrics I found where Coated nylon (which has a
thin latex feel about it) Nylon bonded to latex; which was quite dense and
smooth, Neoprene; which is quite thick and does not fray, Rubber
which I thought was amazing! They had rubber fabric in every colour possible!
And a Reflective fabric which I was told had glass particles in it, giving
it a reflective shine-this was the most expensive fabric that I purchased at
the price of £65 per metre! But I think it is something special.
Coated Nylon
Nylon bonded to Latex
Rubber!
Reflective fabric with glass particles.
There is a downstairs section which housed all the other fabrics;
the wools, furs and jerseys all in different colours and mixes. I found it a
really useful shop which I’m sure if anybody with an interest in fabric visited,
you would fell like a child in a candy shop as I did!
They have so many different fabrics and I would recommend them
to anyone. So if you’re bored walking round London-head to Piccadilly!
CLOTH HOUSE
98 Berwick Street
Soho
London
W1F 0SJ
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