Category Archives: fabric

Mahna Mahna

By bessworks | Published: March 11, 2013
I’ve been drowned in work of late but I took some time out to tinker with type at the weekend, I thought the lyrics from Piero Umiliani’s Mah Nà Mah Nà song (I got the song stuck in my head and figured I shouldn’t be the only one) would make a great pattern. I like it [...]
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Fabric is beautiful.

By bessworks | Published: October 12, 2011
Off-white cotton interlock about to be re-rolled after a broken ‘choob‘ incident. This pic reminds me of when I was a little girl, my dad had a garage roof full of white paper rag, the kind used to wipe grubby engineers’ hands with. My sisters and I would burrow into it, my memory might be [...]
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Nostalgia Fair

By bessworks | Published: September 12, 2011
We (Stone Fabrics) will be exhibiting at Totnes Civic Hall on Saturday 24th September 2011. I have only been as a visitor before, it is always full of the most amazing array of fabrics, buttons and trims, along with ready made clothing, toys and home dec’. Totnes is full of unique original shops (Not just [...]
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Everything in its place and a place for everything. Kind of.

By bessworks | Published: August 30, 2011
The fabric that has been squatting in my booze cupboard has been evicted, along with a motley crew of off-cuts and one off I-must-have-that-I-will-die-if-I-don’t-buy-that-…-I-don’t-know-what-I will-make-with-that-but-it-won’t-go-off-while-I-look-after-it-,-will-it! You wouldn’t know it to look in my living room (or my office), but I have been having a little sort out. Now all fabric of a reasonable length is [...]
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