Fabric Porn...

[neotoma]

Yesterday, gblvr and I went to Mekong River Textiles and bought fabric for the Sanuk Jacket pattern.



Ikat is fabric woven with the pattern already dyed onto the warp or weft (or both -- double ikat). Shot silk has thread of one color for the warp and threads of another for the weft which gives the entire fabric an iridescent color-shifting quality.


They are so very pretty.

I also bought some of this:



to make sashiko handbags with.

I'm just going to stay home and coo at the fabric, I think.

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[temve.livejournal.com]

*coos right with you*

I've got four yards of soft black viscose lying around here, waiting to be turned into a Madeleine Vionnet dress whenever I feel sufficiently experimental (she's the one who never used patterns, preferring to drape the fabric on the figure and cut accordingly... quite the rage in the 1930s, and still stunningly beautiful), and whenever I can lay my hands on some dark green watered silk for the sash.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Oh, this place was temptation itself. I could have spent a month's pay there, easily. Lots of silks from Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, and things like authentic shibori.

I know where to go when I want to make a yukata -- they had lots of shibori cotton.

Now I just have to fix my sewing machine. The spindle for the thread spool has broken, and since the machine is a cheap Brother I got at a garage sale, it's not an easily replaceable part. I'm probably going to have to jerry-rig with a wooden dowel rod.