vintage textiles
vintage dress patterns and fabrics to make them
Vintage Fabric Market have a great craft section where you can buy vintage fabrics and haberdashery to create your own unique style.
vintage and antique textiles
Tobias and the Angel's ever changing collection of nearly everything and anything includes a huge collection of vintage and antique cloth lengths - hand woven Bavarian linen checks, vintage wools and cottons from France, English tweeds, velvets and quilts, Sumatran silk sarongs, Javanese batiks, 19th century saris and paisleys and prints from everywhere and from all eras.
Teagowns and Textiles stock includes vintage fabrics, lace and linens and it is also possible to commission murals to be hand painted onto linen from a photograph, and linen cushions can be painted in the same manner too.
Donna Flower is a delightful online store specialising in beautiful antique, vintage and retro fabrics, from 19th Century French fabrics to fabrics from the 1980's so whether you are looking for small pieces of fabric for patchwork or quilting or yardage for curtains, or dressmaking, Donna has a huge stock and may have just what you are looking for. She also sells items made from vintage, recycled fabrics including beautiful covered buttons.
Sheila Cook Textiles is a specialist dealer of beautiful and extraordinary things including antique textiles, and trimmings . Each item is carefully chosen for quality and design, anything from real elegance to shameless extravagance to the just plain wacky! She also has a showroom in Holland Park, London.
gorgeous vintage look or antique bed sheets, eiderdowns, quilts, pillowcases - Suzannah in Bath is a little vintage haven
- you'd probably walk straight past it because it is so small, but once
you're inside it's a totally different story. Stuffed with cushions,
baskets, vintage fabrics, French furniture, dolls, eiderdowns, linen
and lace you could spend hours 'routelling' around here. A real treasure.