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Upcycling and embroidery are the next sustainable trend!

26/8/2019

 
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What is that trend: Upcycling?

Upcycling is a relatively new term and has been used since the late 1990s. It has only been known to the general public in recent years. The term is becoming increasingly popular.

Recycling has long been known to all of us. We have been storing old paper for years because it can be used to make new paper. We collect glass, because it is used to make new glass. Environmentally conscious is the key word. Do not throw away anything that can be used again!

Upcycling is actually the same as recycling. Old, worn or unused items are reused, and become more beautiful or have a different purpose. Examples; bicycle bags are made from inner tubes, garden furniture is made from pallets, bags, pillows, plaids or mobile covers are created from old worn clothing. Take a look at Etsy and see how resourceful creatives are among us today.

Upcycling is actually something that seamstress have been doing for years. Why would you throw away something that just doesn't fit, is not comfortable or is heavily out of fashion. We just 'adjust' it!

Take a shirt: cut the sleeves to pieces, make large power sleeves with other fabric or put a nice embroidery on it. Suddenly that boring blouse is hip and hotter than your daughter again ... (the latter only in 'chic' style, haha)

Or suppose you have bought a beautiful dress but it is not comfortable or just does not look nice .... You do not throw that beautiful fabric away? Hops, scissors in and we just make something else out of it.

And what about all those beautiful quilts and patchwork quilt? All made from scraps of fabric that might otherwise have been thrown away!

We are upcyclinging for a while now, but recently we do it with more pleasure than ever!

While testing the Veritas Florence embroidery machine, we found out how much fun embroidery is, and how cool it is to pimp up your clothes.

And now the embroidery machine Bernette D70 Deco is being tested!

Embroidery is boring? Well no! More fun, sustainable and chic than ever.

Blog photo: a nice turquoise dress from the front page of the Bernette D70 Deco manual. The embroidery speaks for itself: after this 'update', a simple turquoise dress will look unique, chic, classy and more durable than ever.

The Little Black Dress

19/8/2019

 
Book review: The Little Black Dress by Simon Henry
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The little black dress, by Simon Henry

No woman in the world should be without a little black dress! And that's an understatement...
The little black dress is always chic, classy and ideal for styling for different occasions: an evening party, a formal business-meeting or just a nice casual day. Add some accessories, handbags, a coat, shoes or boots or combine it with sneakers. Everything is possible and timeless beautiful.

But where to find a little black dress that really fits?

Here you have the answer: make one yourself! A tailor-made Little Black Dress  ('LBD') could be yours.
The backcover-page of the book promises it is possible even though you do not have any experience with sewing. Expert dressmaker Simon Henry will guide you through the process of making the perfect little black dress.

Unfortunately we do not agree. It takes some knowledge of sewing and some experience in cutting the pattern, shaping it on a dressform and sewing your own tailor-made little black dress.

But we agree on the great guide the book offers. The pictures are loud and clear. The drawings are perfect and the background-information is really very nice.
The photographs are stunning and the layout of the whole book is really worth every penny.

We definitely recommend this book. But make sure it will not be your first project, otherwise it probably won't work. Unless you are really very talented.

And please, show us your little black dress ! Good luck with the project and good luck with this beautiful book.

New book: Chanel The Making of a Collection

14/8/2019

 

Chanel: The Making of a Collection
by
laetitia Cénac

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We will review this book ASAP and publish it on our blogs and websites !!!

All about fabric designs

14/8/2019

 
In Dutch
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More and more people are buying their fabrics from an online store. It often takes a while to find the right fabric. Fortunately, most online fabric stores have good search filters, such as color, design, fabric type, stretchable or non-stretchable, thickness and, last but not least: the price category.

Designs, prints or motif
An important filter is the design of the fabric. There used to be a subdivision into plain or non-plain, nowadays there are many 'motifs', 'prints' or 'designs' per fabric. Most designs speak for themselves: hearts, dots, diamonds, flowers or stripes. Everyone understands that!

But what about, for example, 'chains', 'ornaments', 'garland' or 'chevron'? Many different terms are mentioned. To save you some time, we have made a list below of designs that are increasingly used with certain terms.

Can't find the right design? Do not panic! Here we have an overview!

Fabric designs
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Paisley
Paisley is an ornament-like print that is mainly based on the teardrop shape. The drop is always round at the top and tapering to the bottom. The paisley print comes in many shapes, colors and directions. The thread direction is therefore often less important, depending on the fabric type (cotton, jacquard, tweed or jersey).

Note: 'paisley' design is sometimes categorized in the retro or ornaments filters.

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Ornaments
An ornament (Latin ornare en ornamentum) means: to decorate and adornment, and is a composition or decorative elements to decorate objects. Think curls of buildings, arches, circles and everything 'barok'.
The shape of ornaments on fabrics is always symmetrical, beautifully curled, styled and repeated continuously.

In contrast to 'Paisley', ornamented fabric often has a clear top and bottom, or direction of the fabric.

Ornaments are often based on emblems, family crests, French lilies and architectural shapes.

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Herringbone
Herringbone is a design characterized by rows of stripes that go up and down at an angle of about 30 degrees. The pattern is best known in the tweed fabrics, where it was really created by a certain weaving technique.
But herringbone can also be found as designs on jersey, cotton and demin fabrics. Be careful with the thread direction with this fabric, if you are going to use the fabric for a sewing pattern!

Herringbone is also sometimes called 'chevron' or 'zigzag'. In Dutch is it called: 'visgraat'.

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Pied-de-Poule or Houndstooth
Pied de poule, means chicken legs. Also called: houndstooth, or: dog teeth. There are a lot of terms for this symmetrical pattern. The pattern is usually in black and white but can come in many other color combinations as well. Always two-colored and characterized by broken squares in an abstract pointed shape. Absolutely symmetrical from large patterns to very small checks.

The design is very recognizable and is widely used for woolen fabrics, cotton and jersey. In a rare case, the design falls under 'chef's or baker's fabric', because the uniform (the trousers) of a cook is often made in this black and white pattern.

'Vichy checks' is also a two-tone check, but ordinary squares. It is often used to make custom patterns because the checks often have standard sizes and there is a good explanation on the patterns about how you can make the sewing pattern completely your own size. The squares are working here as an extra help with the sizes.

Vichy checks is mainly seen in cotton fabrics and soft chambray.

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Animal or animal fur
Fabric designs 'animal motifs' cannot be compared to 'animal fur'. Animal fur is always the well-known tiger print, zebra stripe or the pattern of the skin of giraffes.

Sometimes the categories 'camouflage', 'safari' or 'army' fall under the same filter or category. The design animal fur is mainly found in colorful fabrics, from fake fur to real fur ...

Animal motifs can be anything, as long as an animal is recognizable.

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Garland
Garland is used in multiple senses. On the one hand, 'garland' means nothing more than a flower garland. Wherever designs are flower garlands, this fabric is therefore called 'garland'.

But it also applies to slightly 'vintage'-style designs with the atmosphere of flowers depicted in soft colors and a romantic atmosphere.

Finally, 'garland' often coincides with 'Christmas fabrics'. This is mainly because Christmas is often associated with lights, garlands of flowers and lamps. The atmosphere is therefore also called 'garland'. Garland is therefore a broad concept and is used for several types of designs for fabrics.

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Geometric
Geometric designs have everything to do with circles, triangles, squares, pentagons, honeycomb, rectangles, triangles, etc. The designs are always symmetrical and usually multicolored. Sometimes there is a kind of 3D effect, the fabrics seem to give depth as soon as you look at them or the fabric moves.

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Retro
Retro designs mainly remind us of the sixties and seventies. Bright colors, lots of orange, green, brown, pink and yellow. Round shapes, psychedelic or imaginative. Any letters are convex and open and are usually outlined.

Retro designs can also be adapted to this modern time. It is then a combination of the shapes and slightly more modern colors. Or the reverse: the typical, strong colors of the flower power era, cast in a slightly more modern design. Especially with dark blue, retro can be a very good combination. They are often ideal, cheerful designs for summery cotton fabrics.

In some cases 'Batik' also is known as retro design. Batik is the design of dyed fabric in the typical round shapes and colors that blend into each other.

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Vintage
Vintage designs for fabrics are often pale in color and look 'fragile' and old. They have beautiful floral motifs, old photos or just a combination of old-looking colors. You often see vintage designs on canvas or gobelin. They are timeless fabrics that always remain beautiful.

'Nature' also often falls under 'vintage'. These are often the fabrics with botanical drawings of flowers, leaves, birds, gardens and animals. The colors are never harsh, glaring or bright.

Last but not least:
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Chains
The name says it all: the design is based on chains, watches, belts, horse bits and fringes which are print on the fabric. The 'chain' motifs have a chic look that is a bit 'Hèrmes' style.

In a few cases the design also falls under 'Chanel-like fabrics' because of the golden chain that symbolizes the classic famous 2.55 bag.

Summarized:

Fabric designs come in many colors, patterns and variations. From beautiful symmetry to an image that can be purchased in 'panels'. This means that the fabric is cut per image, which is for example 1.25 meters. The 'panel' is then not interrupted if it is sold from the roll. You do not buy the fabric per meter but per panel.

More and more search filters are being used to find the right fabric online at fabric stores. That is of course a good thing. We would like to keep you informed of new terms.

If you know a category / term that is not self-evident and is not listed here ...? Please let us know and we will gladly add to our list.

Chanel Vintage Authentic versus fake copies

12/8/2019

 

How to recognize a real Chanel Vintage authentic jacket?

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How to recognize Vintage Chanel couture?

How do you know you have find a real Vintage couture piece of art or just a fake copy? On first sight they look exactly the same, they feels the same and it seems too good to be true.  It is quite difficult.  These days fakes are on first sight as good as the real onces.  There is a whole (black) market on luxury brands on couture, jewelry, toys, games and even make-up. Even Vintage and authentic goods are made with such an knowledge and technical materials; it seems almost impossible to recognize real Vintage these days.

We talk about couture on this website/blog and specific the French Chanel Couture. More specific the famous jacket and skirt.

It is too easy to say that fakes are mostly made of cheaper materials. The quality of the materials, fabrics in this case, are key.  Even though fakes can look quite identical,  the real couture of course has the luxury of using the best fabrics in the world. But....  the materials of the fakes are coming close; think about leather versus pu-leather. Even though they look the same,  leather behaves differently in time and feels like leather should feel.

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Free downloads embroiderypatterns

6/8/2019

 
We have tested the Veritas Florence sewingmachine and embroiderymachine-in-one!
Read our review here.

En wij hebben voor u alle linken op een rijtje gezet waar u prachtige borduurpatronen kunt vinden.

Free downloads embroiderypatterns

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Review: Veritas Florence sewingmachine and embroidery-machine-in-one

2/8/2019

 
Our review: The Veritas Florence sewingmachine and embroiderymachine-in-one
Veritas Florence: a unique sewing and embroidery machine in 1. In addition to all the practical sewing stitches, including many stretch and decorative stitches, 6 different buttonholes and of course the possibility of using a double needle, this sewing machine can be quickly turned into a fantastic embroidery machine.

Embroidery is now accessible for everyone and no longer requires a large, heavy special embroidery machine.
With the Veritas Florence it goes almost completely automatically. The possibility of working via your smartphone or computer is innovative and user-friendly. In no time you can create imaginative patterns that give a personal touch to your sewing-projects.

The Veritas Florence is of very high quality and you will enjoy this sewing and embroidery machine for years.


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