Furniture slipcovers

Furniture slipcovers

New couch covers can work wonders at giving tired looking furniture a much-needed new look, for not much effort or expense. If the upholstery on your couch is looking worn or outdated, then fitting a sofa slipcover over the top can instantly give it a fresh lease of life. Furniture slipcovers are designed to be really easy to stretch into place for a snug-fitting appearance, and most can be machine-washed, which means there’s no need to stress about pets or children getting dirty marks on your favorite sofa!

Making lovely summer pouffe

Making lovely summer pouffe

Luxurious cushions are perfect for making yourself comfortable at home or away. Pouffes, sometimes also known as ottomans, make a stunning home furnishing accessory and give great character to any room in your house. Here we will show you one of many ways the pouffes can be made and look like. This project is relatively easy, but you need a basic sewing skills.

The History of New York Fashion Week

The History of New York Fashion Week

Prior to World War II, American fashion didn’t get much — if any — time in the spotlight. Instead, the world looked to the chic city of Paris for sartorial inspiration. Fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar filled their pages with the aspirational attire of the French, even if the styles weren’t readily available to the average American consumer.

Personalized T-shirts for Everyone

Personalized T-shirts for Everyone

It isn’t easy to follow fashion trends, especially in the fashion trends among young people as they change so quickly. However, a style that seems to outlive all the other T-shirt.The popularity of T-shirts have increased dramatically with the introduction of the concept.

A Few Tips for Sewing Knitted Fabrics

A Few Tips for Sewing Knitted Fabrics

You may never have attempted to sew anything for yourself since your schooldays — or again, you may have abandoned the whole idea after one or two disappointing failures. It is the time to bring your knowledge back and start create a nice things for your family, firends and youself.

How to Use Avalon Madeira Embroidering Fabric?

How to Use Avalon Madeira Embroidering Fabric?

What is AVALON? A transparent fabric, which dissolves in cold water, eco-friendly and leaving no residue. Simply place thin fabric, lace looped and knitted fabrics under or between two layers of AVALON before you start to embroider.

The Most Prestigious Fashion Schools

The Most Prestigious Fashion Schools

School is ending, graduation season is upon us, and perhaps you’re wondering what to do with your life. Well, if fashion design–or a related career–is calling you, we’ve compiled a list of the top fashion schools in the world.

Corsets and Crinoline: How to be Pretty in Victorian Time

Corsets and Crinoline: How to be Pretty in Victorian Time

Technological change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century led to new designs in underwear which often made life easier for women–as well as more complicated. At the same time new attitudes towards health and comfort and participation in sporting activities meant that women were actually becoming much more aware of their bodies and the harm that could be done by restrictive underwear.

Textile Designers: Creative Minds that Make Our Life Better

Textile Designers: Creative Minds that Make Our Life Better

We all love to have beautifully designed fabrics for our garments, home furnishings and other accessories. Have you ever thought, how these fabrics get their design? Who is behind creating the innovative textile designs? And how much effort goes into making a fabric which we might reject in just a few minutes? Do you know the textile designers and their creative but very complex work of textile designing?

Charlotte Fleming Made With Love

Charlotte Fleming Made With Love

Made with Love was started in July 2009 and since then has gone from strength to strength!

This studio is started by Charlotte Fleming, a young artist trained at City and Guilds of London Art School. Her father was the furniture designer Christien Sell. Growing up surrounded by her father’s designs has had a big influence on her and design has always been a big part of her life.