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neotoma ([personal profile] neotoma) wrote2006-04-15 11:35 am
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Fabric Porn...

Yesterday, [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] temve.livejournal.com 2006-04-15 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
*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.