I want to awaken the long-dormant sewing skills I learned while making dashikis and dirndl skirts in 4-H as a girl. But when I go to chain fabric stores, I leave uninspired. Is there a source for ...

The design world has embraced vintage fabrics in a big way. Almost daily, the print medium and internet display beautiful bedrooms and other spaces decked with gorgeous fabrics from across the world.

Why wear vintage? For vintage fashion enthusiasts, the reasons are as multifaceted as their outfits. It's a nod to history. Old clothes tell a story and often have special significance. The ...

Redding sewing nonprofit has launched its fabric boutique, with a 'Name that Manikin' contest and craft workshops at its new downtown store.

“Turkey Tracks” is a 19th-century quiltmaking pattern that has the appearance of little wandering feet. Patterns like the tracks, and their traditions and myths, have been passed down through the ...

Like most great romances Michelle Eigenberger's love affair with vintage fabric hit suddenly and with dizzying intensity. "Probably within a year I had too much fabric. I had no idea what I could ...

Vintage fabric collector Electra Skilandat reopened her Urban Burp store in Point Richmond recently after a rent increase forced her to shut down her San Francisco shop last year. Her new shop, in a ...

STAUNTON — Lindsay Curren can remember the first time she fell in love with fabric. She must have been 5 years old and found some rough, tweedy red wool that she took some thread to and embroidered it ...

At a time when big-box craft stores are struggling to stay afloat and are closing their doors left and right. Kansas City-based designer and author Amy Barickman’s latest collaborative project ...

Paige Davidson still has the notes friends passed her in class decades ago, all kept tidily in a binder. A native of Gainesville, about seventy miles north of Dallas, she comes from a family of ...