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If you are looking for an easy sewing project to do - perhaps you want to use up some extra fabric or are looking for something simple to teach sewing to a novice with - then one of my personal recommendations to our customers here at Calico Laine is to try your hand at making your very own cushion. This...

Even with so many sewing enthusiasts across the United Kingdom and even worldwide, a great Fabric Store seems to be difficult to find for a lot of our customers who contact us in the hope that we can help supply them with what they are after. If you are not in a major city like London, for example, then Fabric...

Nowadays being online is a huge part of a business, small or big, which is why we launched our website back in 2006 as we not only wanted the locals to have access to our fantastic stock but the whole of the EU! Imagine if you had emigrated to Spain or somewhere else nice and sunny and once a week...

Chiffon Fabrics are a dressmaking fabric that are popular all year round for use in all kinds of occasion wear, such as posh garments for evening do's, formal wear and bridal wear. Usually seen as quite a feminine fabric, it is also often used for ladies' blouses and shirts, delicate scarves and even intimate garments such as lingerie. At Calico Laine...

In recent years dressmaking as a past time has become popular once more. Many of our customers have decided to take it up as a hobby for the first time, as a way of staying in fashion without having to pay some of the extortionate prices you now see around not only the designer shops, but the high street as...

As a sewing and dressmaking enthusiast, rarely a day goes by where I don't go home from work with a small haul of Dressmaking Fabrics just waiting to be turned into something new to wear. Whenever our new stock arrives here at our warehouse, I can always be found poring over the brand new rolls of fabric and trying to...

Calico Laine Textiles is a family run business that has been trading for over 40 years. We have retail stores in the North West as well as being a reputable Online Fabric Supplier.  Through our online store we supply to many different customers including private dressmakers and businesses as there is a distinct lack of haberdashery and fabric stores around the...

The first time you go from shopping in a fabric/haberdashery shop to shopping online, I swear, your world will be turned around. It's like nothing you have ever done before, you can click on all these different categories, which (sort of) act as shopping isles and it is super convenient. You don't have to say 'Excuse me' every 5 minutes when...

Now that we are a couple of weeks into the new year, you may have been spoiled over Christmas with gifts such as sewing accessories, or even vouchers for our two stores. If not, then maybe your new year's resolution for 2016 is to pick up a new hobby - and what better hobby is there than sewing and dressmaking? In...

As Calico Laine is known mostly for being a great Online Fabric Supplier it may be hard to imagine that we are also open to the public. That's right, this means if you are unable to tell if one of the fabrics online is right for you, and you live locally, you can come down and take a look! We have two...