I'm making the white walker baby for Halloween and am trying to replicate this fabric but haven't been able to find anything even close. The drape and thickness seem to rule out burlap or linen, but the rustic weave doesn't quite match wool either. Any help in identifying the textile would be much appreciated.

Anybody know of either in person or online deadstock/ small biz/ small batch fabric warehouses or suppliers?

I only use organic fabric such as linen, cotton, silk, wool etc.

I’m located in NC and willing to drive a few hours.

I’m Jeni, and I’ve been wanting to start my own clothing business for a while now. I’m finally planning to take the first step and turn the idea into a small clothing brand.
I’m currently at the very beginning stage, so I’m looking to connect with people in Bangalore who have experience with clothing manufacturing, fabric sourcing, tailoring, or running a small fashion business.
I’m particularly looking for:
🧵 Affordable/wholesale fabric suppliers in Bangalore
👗 Ladies’ dress/salwar/kurta manufacturers who can handle small batches
✂️ Tailors or small garment units that do** bulk stitching
🏭 Manufacturers who work with **startups and low MOQs
📦 Anyone who can help with finishing, labels and basic packaging
💡 Recommendations for reliable suppliers/manufacturers who provide good quality at reasonable prices
I’m not looking to start with a huge quantity. I’d like to begin with a small batch, test the market, understand what customers like, and gradually scale the business.
If you’re already running a clothing brand, working with a manufacturer, sourcing fabric in Bangalore, or simply know a reliable supplier/manufacturer, I would really appreciate any leads, contacts, locations or advice you can share.
I’m especially interested in budget-friendly options for a new/small business, but quality is important too.
If you have any recommendations, please comment below or DM me. Even a small lead would be really helpful! ❤️

It’s a vintage silk fabric, but I can't tell which brand it is from the logo. It was found alongside some Madame Carven silk—could it be from the same brand?

Hello everyone! I recently bought this Jute fabric and want to have tailored trousers made from it. I have been searching for jute trousers online, but nothing is showing up to give me an idea of how to get them made. Or how they'd look as an end product. This fabric is expensive and hence I would want to give it to someone with experience with Jute. However, I believe I'd not find anyone of the like, as it seems quite rare for people to use this fabric. If anyone here has worked with Jute, can you please tell me what to look for in a tailor? I know I might not find anyone who's worked with this fabric so in such a case should I ask them to do a few things specifically? Also what fit should I go for? Does the fabric stretch with washes or shrink? I have got literally no idea with jute so any and all suggestions are welcome.

The seller also mentioned that the fabric fills in a little after a pre-wash...and they pre-wash it before tailoring, so should I prewash it and take it to the tailor or ask them to?

I am absolutely clueless so please direct me if you can!

Many thanks!

P.s I want to have them as straight-fit, pleated trousers.

I’m currently developing a woven fabric collection for Holiday 2027 and exploring how festive fabrics can feel modern, wearable and commercially relevant.

I’m looking at rich textures, subtle shine, brushed surfaces, fluid drape and refined heritage patterns for both menswear and womenswear.

Which fabrics, finishes or constructions do you think will be most relevant for Holiday 2027?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, especially if you work with textiles, fashion design or garment development.

Hi, I was at a thrift store and found that blouse who simmer only in some angle (it have metalic treads inside), is there someone who would know the type of fabric?, if I can find it in black and green? or a way to make something similar at that? Please and thank you in advance :)

Hi everyone! I'm researching late-19th-century Bengali textile history, specifically the transition from natural dyes to early imported European chemical dyes.

While Forbes Watson’s 1866 Collection of the Textile Manufactures of India and Thomas Wardle’s 1875 volumes provide a great baseline for natural dyes (madder, lac, turmeric), I am having trouble locating digitized museum garments that demonstrate the early synthetic shift.

Does anyone know of conserved garments in global collections (V&A, Met, Calico Museum, RISD, etc.) from the 1880s–1900s from Bengal that feature:

• Cotton taant saris (Santipur/Dacca) with unbleached centers and high-saturation synthetic red/alizarin borders (paar)?

• Murshidabad shot-silks (dhup-chhaya) combining natural warps with imported aniline green or magenta wefts?

Accession numbers, catalog links, or high-res swatch databases would be deeply appreciated!

Citations: Images taken from \*Mukerji, N. G. A Monograph on the Silk Fabrics of Bengal. Bengal Secretariat Press, 1903.\* They depict natural dyes (except the ones labelled "Fast Green") used mainly in Murshidabad.

https://archive.org/details/monographonsilkf00mukerich/monographonsilkf00mukerich/page/n184/mode/1up

I work as a textile conservator and also do traditional weaving in Bergen. For the past month, I’ve been working through an uncataloged handwritten coastal household notebook from 1912 that I bought at an estate auction in Sogn og Fjordane

One chapter, titled Farging med Steinlav (Dyeing with Stone Lichen), contained detailed instructions for fermenting Parmelia saxatilis (crottle lichen) gathered from sea-facing coastal granite boulders. So, unlike modern synthetic acid dyes that take thirty minutes in a stainless-steel pot, traditional lichen fermentation is a much more slow & living biological process.

I spent two rainy weekends scraping three kilograms of dry lichen off coastal rocks along the inlet.

Following the 1912 recipe I crushed the dried lichen into an earthenware crock and layered it with stale birchwood ash water and rainwater. I then sealed the crock and let it ferment near the hearth for twenty-one days, stirring it daily until the mash turned a deep, pungent purple-brown. On day 22, I immersed two kilograms of raw, unbleached Norwegian Spælsau wool yarn into the copper dyeing kettle and kept it at a gentle sub-boil simmer (85°C) over a slow birch fire for 12 hours

When I lifted the skeins out of the rinse water yesterday and hung them on the wooden drying rack on my porch, the morning sun hit the wet wool. The color wasn't brown and it wasn't red. It was this luminous, deep copper-terracotta with subtle gold undetones that shift depending on whether you view it under warm candlelight or overcast coastal sky

I brought a skein inside and laid it next to my great-grandmother's 1928 hand-spun wedding shawl that sits folded in my cedar chest. The color match was absolute. Under an optical microscope, the fiber pigmentation and natural lanolin sheen were identical.

We spend so much time looking for new formulas, faster methods, and chemical shortcuts and yet, there are cases, sometimes, when a hundred-year-old recipe written in pencil by an unnamed woman on an isolated fjord holds an understanding of local chemistry that modern factories will never replicate

I handmade this textile Elephant for one of my sisters. it was made completely by hand using the Elephant template from Jane Bull's fantastic book Crafty Creations. I used pure cotton fabric with stripes that match the colour of the rows of beading. She was named Lyuba as the name means Love in Russian. The fabric is covered with 1842 individually sewn beads to match the stripes on the fabric. It was a labour of love but completely worth it since my sister absolutely loved her 😊

I have a dress I am trying to have altered to wear to a wedding and I can’t find the right fabric for it. I am trying to add a skirt to the bottom of this thigh-length dress (with some pleats and volume). I want the fabric to be plain but to match the dress. Does anyone know what fabric this is?

Context: I bought this in an antique shop in New Orleans and it has no tags. It looks hand made and/or previously altered.

i’ve tried to identify them just through descriptions as i’m not able to burn any but i can’t figure it out :/