Links
This page is ever expanding!
Fabric Suppliers
- Emma Onesock – unusual and designer fashion fabrics
- Farmhouse Fabrics - great for high quality cottons and heirloom sewing
- Sawyer Brook - nice selection of fashion fabrics
- Purl - lovely fabrics for crafting, quilting, etc, and knitting supplies
- Abimelech Hainsworth - makers of fine wool cloth since the battle of Waterloo (!)
- Trim Fabric – Interesting fabrics at reasonable prices
- Linnet – Japanese fabric shop specialising in linen
Knitting & Yarn
– online knitting community, pattern & yarn reviews (login required; find and friend me as glassoffashion)
- Elann – good quality wool at inexpensive prices
- Woolgirl
- Garn Studio – great free knitting patterns to download
- Knitty - online knitting magazine and patterns
- Twist Collective – another online knitting mag and patterns
Research
- La Couturiere Parisienne - fashion history from early times, with patterns
- Chenilles et Papillons - beautiful site of makers of 18th century costume
- Vintage Sewing Patterns Wiki
- Sewing Pattern Review
- The Costumer’s Guide
- Costumer’s Manifesto
Blogs I like to read
- A Dress A Day
- The Purl Bee
- Canary Knits
- Posh Yarn
- Forty-sixth at grace
- Sofia Barao
- Pia Jane Bijkerk
- Yarnstorm
- Knitting Letters: A to Z
- Moxietonic
- Thornberry
- Moving Hands
- Goff Couture
- A Homely Heroine
- Daily Imprint
- The Sartorialist
- Garance Doré
- Needled
- Supernaturale
- Pimpernel
- 37 Days – not sewing related, but uplifting
(Glass of Fashion is on the list!)
This blog is where I ramble on about fashion history, costume, sewing, knitting and anything else that takes my fancy.
