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Past Newsletters
Subject: January 2001 News
Date: January 25, 2001
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In this newsletter:
FTC Apparel Label Site
Vintage Fasteners and Cambric
"Whether to Pleather" plus "Kalasiris Virus"
In our awards this month, we found a site that defines all those hieroglyphic symbols used on apparel labels. Until now, it has been a guessing game to decipher the tiny symbols to figure out how to launder garments. LabelTalk at http://www.textileaffairs.com has these lists as well as a few stain removal tricks. They also offer Information for Apparel / Textile Industry Professionals such as symbol charts, FTC documents, symbol graphics, and translation guides. Quite a useful site!
You can view the other award recipients at http://www.fabrics.net/awardmo.htm
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Beacon Fabric and Notions
A wide selection of Sewing Supplies including flagcloth, Embroidery Supplies, Outdoor Fabrics, Upholstery and Serger Supplies.
http://www.beaconfabric.com/
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January is the month for fasteners in the Vintage Fabrics column. Joan takes us from pins to zippers... "Ever hear the expressions pin money? pocket money? As pins were homemade, there was often a scarcity and this drove up prices. Many a feudal lord created or increased his serf’s taxes so he could afford money to pay for pins. To stem the hoarding and overindulgence of pins, a law was passed in Britain in the late Middle Ages to allow pinmakers to sell only on certain days of the year. This enabled the upper and lower-classes to save and have enough pin money at market time. Once pins began to be mass produced by machine, prices plummeted and pin money was devalued to mean a wife’s pocket money. Buttons started to be used gradually on the aristocracy’s clothes in the late 1200s and by the 16th century all but replaced pins. " Read more at http://www.fabrics.net/joan101.htm
February is the Cambric month for our Vintage Fabric Column..
"Queen Elizabeth and cohorts nearly choked in it; Errol Flynn and his real-live counterparts brandished their swords in it; Scarlett and her friends often swooned in it as their corsets were being tightened; untold babes took their first step in it; teary-eyed damsels wiped their eyes with it; countless women sported flowers of it on their suits, dresses and hats; book collectors loved its satiny feel; many of us probably have it in our fabric stash without realizing it.
It is of course cambric, once the all-purpose textile. One could go on endlessly about this remarkable fabric and its seemingly infinite variations."
More: http://www.fabrics.net/joan.htm
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At Everything Quilts we look forward to sharing the joy of quilting with you. From quality designer quilt fabrics, books, quilt kits, Electric Quilt software, nifty notions, exclusive Fabric Theme Collections, quilting novelties, Fabric Clubs, and freebies like Quilting Techniques/Projects, patterns, demos and free Quilter's Screensaver and Digital Postcards.
http://www.everythingquilts.com/
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Whether to Pleather is the question our Fabric Properties and Distinctions column explores.. That wonderful and sometimes gaudy fabric pleather. "The fabrics and fashions of the 1970’s have been popular for nearly a decade now, but no other fabric has managed to reclassify itself as well as pleather (polyurethane film)." http://www.fabrics.net/amypleather.htm
Also see "Kalasiris Virus: Tracing the Fabric and Fashion Evolution of Ancient Egypt’s Most Renown Garment" at http://www.fabrics.net/amy.htm
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The Fabrics.net Staff
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