Fabric & Textiles

  • Apparel Apparently

    Apparel Apparently

    Check our website for a new fabric category – Dressmaking Fabrics. Tinsmiths has had lightweight fabrics that are suitable for…

  • Cotton – the ever uncertain costs

    Cotton – the ever uncertain costs

    With floods in Australia and unrest in Egypt the price increases in cotton recently felt due to unseasonal heavy rains…

  • New Fabrics – perfect for one another

    New Fabrics – perfect for one another

    A triumph of a fabric from St.Judes by artist Emily Sutton arrived today just as a delivery of “Ink” Irish…

  • Family Treats

    Family Treats

    Thank you all at Lewis and Wood for another fantastic day course “Block-printing” with Jenny Stringer. Bought as a birthday…

  • Organic Blankets

    Organic Blankets

    Wensleydale Sheep have been crossed with Leicester Long Wools to provide good meat and soft long stable fibres for weaving…

  • Joanna Wright – Textile Showcase

    Joanna Wright – Textile Showcase

    Hand Sewn Textiles by fine artist Joanna Wright. Work applied to Cushion Fronts.

  • Tinsmiths’ Day Outing at Lewis and Wood

    Tinsmiths’ Day Outing at Lewis and Wood

    An in-person insight into the working practices at Lewis & Wood

  • End Results

    End Results

    We are always delighted when customers send us a picture of their creations in situ

  • Patchwork Quilt – 160 years to complete?

    Patchwork Quilt – 160 years to complete?

    Handmade Victorian Quilt ready for use.

  • “Full Length” Birdgarden by Mark Hearld

    “Full Length” Birdgarden by Mark Hearld

    Full Length Curtains in Mark Hearld’s new textile design, Birdgarden