Fabric & Textiles
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Of the Same Stripe – Tinsmiths’ Ticking Fabric
Acquiring its’ name from the Greek theka and Latin tica both meaning covering, ticking fabric is a tightly woven simple…
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Tinsmiths Made to Measure – Handmade Curtains and Blinds
Tinsmiths Made to Measure service Tinsmiths has always had a dedicated group of curtain-makers quietly working away in our sewing rooms.…
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MAGNIF-ECO: Tinsmiths Recycled Fabrics
The growth and production of textiles for both apparel and for the home has been an ongoing, progressive industry since…
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Antique Patchwork Quilts
On a quiet shelf in our showroom among an abundance of fabric rolls and remnants lies a humble pile of…
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Linen for curtains & blinds
In the latest in our occasional series of posts about cloth the focus is on linen. Starting with the basics;…
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Ticking Fabrics
Ticking fabric was traditionally a very densely woven cotton herringbone or twill weave cloth used for making mattress & pillow…
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Jacquard
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Pashmina
We recently received some wonderful Pashmina shawls so light and so soft that everything else that I had ever encountered…
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Corduroy
I can think of no other textile so quintessentially ‘English’ and ‘country’ as corduroy – think farmer, cord trousers held…
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Chintz
To describe something as “chintzy” nowadays is to describe it as rather blowsy, a bit “Mills and Boon” and not…