Croft Mill Catalogue, issue #35

All about fabric

BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES - WINE PAGE 2

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW PAGE 6

PAISLEY PONTE PAGE 8

FAKING IT PAGE 5

YORKSHIRE WOOLS PAGE 11

LUST LOVES - JAPANESE GARDEN PAGE 6

BREXIT PAGE 3 ZARA HOTHTRA PAGE 11

BOUCLE - KID PAGE 3

beautiful fabrics delivered to your door www.croftmill.co.uk |

@CroftMillFabric |

facebook/Croft-Mill-Fabric

November - Issue | 35

All about fabric

t as the rning, jus

sun was

rising…

mo nchlington ut the Tru Early one o b a g in k you thin came, are l ing in bed il ly M I s ft a ro w C ...there months? e call from s, weeks, y e when th a im d m w to fe n t a p ex all the g for the n stened to li in g th y in n v a a h g y called ght, doin in the part ke it I thou h li it w re s o ie m rt s st bidder, s pa That’ the highe the variou to f l o u ’s o s g n is ri e I got gh blabbe o it! It’s tim Sam sellin d ig n B a , c y y rt e a w th in the the Lib p others ho back with g m in a is I v d re a e t ith it, so h or at leas tion it all rst inspec d got on w fi n a n t o u d o n t a o l ws letter Mil up, g smaller ne s of Croft a ll a g w in d o d te a re have ea elastic customers ifferent. ‘W r d u o e t b a h to w is at if appears lls me. ‘It u know th o te y e t n le li ro to a d ske cts on offering’ C the produ lso been a f a o e y v n a a h I m . e ble, we asked for’ t catalogu still availa of our las re a ld o s h e t g p a e p you k nd stock l spread a the centra here.

I shall fit them in ’t n a c to start so t s re ju e h w ld to en’t been it is, I hav re e h ll e W g. e beginnin start at th

A ✿✿A LITTLE CORKER

£6.00 per metre

£10.50 per metre

✿✿ALL THAT PSST 146cm wide good weight polyester elastane suiting in navy, pretty much the best sort of un-creasable cloth you can make. An all-purpose allencompassing cloth if ever there was one. £6.00 per metre

150cm wide or as near as makes the difference woven jacketing cloth with a not too tight of a weave, still substantial but not too tight a weave in a blue somewhere between French navy and navy. £7.00 per metre

✿✿APPROACHING PARADISE

b) Wine - wine with a navy flocked spot.

✿✿BIG AGE

REF: 3338 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.50 per metre

✿✿BIG LEAF REF: 3339 WIDTH: 114cm/44”

£7.00 per metre

✿✿ARMADIDDLE

£5.50 per metre

✿✿BLUSH 150cm wide 100% polyester "fake” Melton coating in a very pretty shade of pink. It has a very soft hand and looks a million dollars. £12.00 per metre

✿✿BOHEMIAN 150cm wide fine polyester crepe in a very rich marine blue, fantastic in big swirly skirts.

REF: 3341 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

145cm wide very fine polyester crepe de chine in a red and white snakeskin like design which I think is old fashioned enough to be old fashioned or to be extremely new fashion.

REF: 3336 WIDTH: 150cm/57”

£5.50 per metre

150cm wide at least, red and cream, cotton, herringbone suiting, shirting of a winter nature. This has been in the background in a shirt makers imagination for some time, now it comes to making shirts he doesn’t fancy it. So now we have it , it’s a heck of a cloth.

REF: 3340 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

This 150cm wide polyester viscose cupro like dress cloth in a pale emerald green.

REF: 2100B WIDTH: 150cm/59”

a) Navy - a fairly dull French Navy with an all over tiny flocked gold spot pattern.

114cm wide. Fairly fine cotton shirting in a navy blue and white big leaf design that knock your socks off. The so very elegant design.

✿✿AN EYEFUL REF: 3335 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

150cm wide polyester chiffon with a flocked spot, it comes in 2 colour ways and is supremely sophisticated.

REF: 3337 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

Stunning super 180’s check grey worsted woollen suiting, only an eyeful.

REF: 3334 WIDTH: 146cm/57”

ARMADIDDLE

✿✿BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES

✿✿180’S REF: 3332 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

APPROACHING PARADISE

A LITTLE CORKER

B

Among a huge delivery of trouserings from a famous Irish maker were some delicious dress fabrics. This little corker is a polyester burnout blouse fabric and a clever one at that. There is a lovely stitching detail within the flowers.

REF: 3331 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

180'S

£4.75 per metre

2 | Croft Mill UK Ltd Primet Business Centre, Burnley Road, Colne, Lancashire BB8 8DQ

£5.25 per metre

beautiful fabrics delivered to your door

A

B

BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES BIG AGE

BIG LEAF

BOHEMIAN

BORDERLINE

BLUSH

BON FIGHT

BREXIT - FROM LEFT TO RIGHT - GOLD, BRUSHED BEIGE, BURNT ORANGE, DAMSON, DARK RED, LIGHT OLIVE, ROYAL BLUE, BRUSHED BLUE,

✿✿BON FIGHT

BOTH SIDES NOW

✿✿BREXIT

150cm wide white cotton with a hint of lycra, lightly satin-ised trousering I think you would have to say with a linear large red, cerise and black abstract arty farty sort of design. There is a huge line of printed flowers about 50cm wide printed every 50cm it goes from selvedge to selvedge.

REF: 3342 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.00 per metre

✿✿BOTH SIDES NOW 140cm wide fine polyester Georgette in shades of blue, I suppose it’s really only minor variations of one shade of blue and is exceptionally subtle. I suppose you might say that it’s almost a dull, in that it’s a mixture of dark air force blue and perhaps turquoise with lighter patches.

A quite sophisticated cloth.

REF: 3343 WIDTH: 140cm/55”

£6.00 per metre

Long before and hopefully long after our"decision” to part Europe we have been on the receiving end of lots of European cloth and as you probably know there aren’t many mills doing in this country, they’ve all been continental Europe the best being in Holland, Germany, Portugal and Italy and some in France. This next little batch of 145cm wide cotton trousering’s are from Holland from a company called Van deldan whom I have talked about before and know that you have seen on some rather expensive clothing in expensive catalogues outdoor shops. a) Gold - this is a light gold brushed cotton twill, very soft but substantial. b) Brushed Beige - is a much finer cloth in beige with just a hint of gold perhaps and this too has a very light brushed finish. c) Burnt Orange - is an over dyed burnt orange fine cotton twill trousering. d) Damson - glorious brushed cotton twill. e) Dark Red - is a straight forward dark red lightly brushed twill trousering. f) Light Olive - is virtually the same cloth but this time in a light olive.

✿✿BORDERLINE 158cm Black taffeta with a geometric sparkly border print. This border bit is woven, not printed and 25cm wide with motive which goes from selvedge to selvedge every 1mtr.

REF: 3344 WIDTH: 158cm/62”

£7.20 per panel

✿✿BLEARY 147cm wide, black fine cotton with a hint of stretch shirting with a print that you might imagine upon first opening your eyes, where the gunge hasn’t completely cleared and you’re looking through this gooey solution but I wear glasses. The design is in fact a ikat style print arranged in rows across and or up and down the cloth and is white, dark turquoise, mustard with a hint of Taupe. In spite of what I said it’s quite striking.

REF: 3345 WIDTH: 147cm/57”

£5.00 per metre

✿✿BUMP IN THE NIGHT Black lightweight polyester twill suiting. Wonderful for drapey-swirly skirts.

REF: 3346 WIDTH: 150-152cm/58-60”

£7.50 per metre

g) Royal Blue - is very fine lightweight cotton twill in royal blue. h) Brushed Blue - is a softly brushed cotton twill in navy blue. i) Brushed Green - is a light green, fine brushed, lightweight cotton twill overdyed in a much darker deeper pea green. j) Brick - a dark brick red further darkened by over dying, fairly robust cotton twill trousering. k) Dark Olive - is dark olive, fine cotton twill trousering.

REF: 3347

WIDTH: ALL AT LEAST 150cm/59” WIDE

£7.00 per metre

✿✿BOUCLE (SORT OF) Two stunning Italian made wool mix jacketing fabrics. a) Kid - (picture on the cover) - 137cm wide altogether different cloth this time with a mixture of fibres including wool in this gloriously conceived, loosely woven almost with the look of a knitted cloth but not quite. In a melange of different thicknesses and weights of yarn. b) Cassidy - a loosely woven wool mix suiting in black fairly coarse yarns with a fine boucle stripe in bright turquoise, lilac with intermittent speckles of cerise pink. What an outstanding jacket this will make.

REF: 4000 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£12.00 per metre

To see our full range of fabrics and place your order online visit www.croftmill.co.uk or call 01282 859281 | 3

All about fabric

BLEARY BOUCLE - CASSIDY

CHRISTMAS POLYCOTTONS - LEFT TO RIGHT - RED REINDEER, DACHSHUND GREEN, PUDDING AND CREAM, I'LL HAVE THE BIG ONE, TRIMMINGS, THE MAIN MAN, ALL THE REINDEER

CAST AWAY CHOPPED FLORAL FUR

CHRISTMAS COTTON IT’S THE SMALL THINGS

COTTON WADDING

F

C

✿✿CHRISTMAS COTTON Standard good quality 60 square cotton.

✿✿COTTON WADDING 100% British made cotton wadding or bump lining in cream.

REF: 4001 WIDTH: 140cm/55”

£8.50 per metre

150 cm wide fine but closely woven heavy muslin in beige, cream and black big square check loosely woven in 100% cotton, there’s lots of interest in the weave and is ideally suited for something large and swirly or perhaps even a shawl. Somebody’s gone to a lot of bother to make this. £6.00 per metre

✿✿CHOPPED FLORAL FUR Something special for something a little different perhaps? This is an Italian 160cm wide chopped fur in black. It is basically a chopped fur where the chopping makes a floral swirl pattern. Hellishly expensive to produce and very beautiful.

REF: 3350 WIDTH: 160cm/62”

f) It’s The Small Things - Red - in red with gilded green sprints and golden stars all over. g) It’s The Small Things - Green - as above but in green.

REF: 2124 WIDTH: 146cm/53”

✿✿CAST AWAY

REF: 3349 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

G

£18.00 per metre

✿✿CHRISTMAS POLY/COTTONS 65% Poly, 35% cotton fabrics that come in a variety of festive prints. a) Dachshund Green - Green base printed with sausage dogs wearing festive hats, jumpers and scarves. b) All The Reindeer - Cream with red, green and silver reindeers and small stars all over it. c) The Main Man - Green base with Father Christmas in various poses on a patch of snow. d) I’ll Have The Big One - Navy with presents of all sizes on it. e) Trimmings - Red and White Scandi style stripes. f) Red Reindeer - Red with white and burgundy reindeers and stars. g) Pudding and Cream - Cream with brown and beige Christmas puddings all over it.

£5.50 per metre

✿✿CLOTHWORKS IMPRESSIONS Gorgeous cotton blender fabrics from Clothworks. A plain but beautiful floral print in a slightly different shade to the base cloth. a) White d) Grey

b) Pale Turquoise e) Cerise

REF: 1493 WIDTH: 111cm/43”

c) Turquoise f) Ivory £5.00 per metre

✿✿CREPE DE CHINE Lightweight crepe de chine in a lovely navy, will drape beautifully.

REF: 3351 WIDTH: 148cm/58”

£5.50 per metre

D ✿✿DEEPLY 150cm wide. 60% poly 40% wool"shot” supremely lightweight suiting in charcoal grey. The shot part of it comes from the ever so tiny darker coloured flecks which really only add to the weave interest nothing else.

Very crease resistant, I suspect washable and exceedingly smart.

REF: 3352 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£12.00 per metre

E ✿✿EGYPTIAN COTTON MUSLIN 150cm wide plain as bag of stuff, heavy cotton muslin in off white perhaps even cream. A cloth with many uses.

REF: 3354 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

4 | Croft Mill UK Ltd Primet Business Centre, Burnley Road, Colne, Lancashire BB8 8DQ

£3.95 per metre

beautiful fabrics delivered to your door

CLOTHWORKS IMPRESSIONS FLORA

EVENING BALL

FAKING IT

GOOD BETTER BEST

FIVE BARRED GATE

FREE FALLING – BLACK

CREPE DE CHINE

✿✿EVENING BALL

✿✿FAKING IT

Warm Beautiful brushed cotton lightweight flannel shirting from the best makers in a black and white small gingham check with an over check at 2/3cm interwove in red a very cuddle-some sort of cloth.

REF: 2182 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£7.00 per metre

F

But still a very expensive cloth, an Italian 100% polyester fake ivory metallic leather onto which has been stitched little sequins in the same colour and fabric, so therefore the seqins look like leather too.

REF: 1926 WIDTH: 140cm/55”

£18.00 per metre

G

✿✿FIVE BARRED GATE

✿✿GOOD BETTER BEST

140cm wide quite substantial but soft polyester jersey in navy blue with a slightly raised horizontal stripe in cream every centimetre. The stripe isn’t printed on it’s knitted in and is quite clever and I think reasonably original.

REF: 1355 WIDTH: 140cm/55”

£8.50 per metre

From the world of Italian fashion comes this delicious cotton chambray trousering in grey, it’s actually made up of black and white yarns, quite robust with a fine hand. The preferred choice of Mr Belasconi.

REF: 3358 WIDTH: 156cm/61”

£ 6.00 per metre

H

✿✿FLIGHT 150cm wide quite unusual and rather different polyester lightweight blouse fabric in navy blue with an all over flattened shuttlecock sort of design in white mesh, I suppose they could really believe it’s a flower but it was the shuttlecock thing that aroused my imagination.

REF: 3356 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.00 per metre

Super quality 97%cotton 3% spandex jersey with a gorgeous helicopter print in red and navy on a sky/aqua background.

REF: 3359 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£5.25 per metre

✿✿HIGHLY SLUNG

✿✿FREE FALLING – SHOWERPROOF The following 160 cm wide three cloths come from a maker who’s claim to fame, in the fairly distant past was to make typewriter ribbons and parachute cloth. Now may be those of you out there who can remember when I used to brag about having an association with this company simply because they were so good at what they did, then he rode up and here they are: a) Black - Is almost like a Rip stop but except in having a square check self-colour pattern this has a diamond shape one. b) Olive - is almost identical to the black one except that it is a light olive green and has a little rum boyd shaped self-colour pattern. Picture on the back page. c) White - is ludicrously fine in white.

I think they were made for covering lightweight down gilets, they are showerproof I think more than that and they are made up of so much fine yarn you wouldn’t believe it, trust me I’m a cloth salesman.

REF: 3357 WIDTH: 160cm/62”

✿✿HELICOPTER (PICTURE ON THE BACK PAGE)

£5.00 per metre

I can’t get anybody to muddle for me so I prefer to do it myself and it’s not always easy when the cloth is still on the roll because there is a tendency to sort of sling the cloth and the roll on rolls severely goes all over the place and your left hanging on so that you don’t lose the end, what I was seeking to do here what put this cloth over a shoulder and let it hang so that I could see how it draped, I actually knew how it would drape because it’s a Georgette so it’s going to flop, a rather beautiful fabric made in polyester or indeed made from polyester as there is no such place as polyester. It comes in a rather large abstract geometric design and will be stunning in the right place.

REF: 3360 WIDTH: 148cm/37”

£5.00 per metre

DELIVERY We aim to despatch your parcel within 3 days of receipt of your order.

More details can be found on our website www.croftmill.co.uk

To see our full range of fabrics and place your order online visit www.croftmill.co.uk or call 01282 859281 | 5

All about fabric

✿✿HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW?

✿✿LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING BACK

150cm wide fine woven polyester, lycra, fairly slinky dress cloth which I think is printed as a double border design, that is to say that the design is repeated from the middle outward identically which I think might even look more stunning if you used the design top to bottom. The design is actually printed width ways selvedge to selvedge, that’s actually somewhat misleading, it will have been printed top to bottom but it runs width ways. Beautifully and quite subtly coloured in a multi floral design with big black triangular markings, very pretty.

REF: 3361 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.00 per metre

150cm wide polyester faux suede in black, it’s fooling no one really but it’s still a nice cloth.

REF: 3366 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

✿✿LIBERTY SILK PANSIES 137cm wide silk crepe de chine in a delightfully delicate floral design in pink, light purple, grey, olive, sage green with a little bit of cream and pale grey on a black ground. A pair of boxer shorts out of that might be.

REF: 1700 WIDTH: 137cm/54”

I 150cm wide super fine cotton lawn in a variegated stripe design in black, cream and navy blue. Very striking and will look absolutely wonderful in the fitting blouses or a big skirt. £6.00 per metre

J

142cm wide soft viscose dress fabric in two quite beautiful prints. a) Japanese Garden - is in black with a “growing” floral design in lilac, pink, mustard, shades of green and a bit of white. b) English Garden - ground with an all over but separate floral design in shades or red and pink with grey foliage and just a hint of lemon and white here and there.

REF: 3365 WIDTH: 142cm/55"

✿✿JUBILICOUS 130cm wide or perhaps a little wider cream crinkle 50% cotton/50% viscose blouse fabric with an awful lot of very fine yarn in it, the crinkle is almost an orange peely sort of finish and adds to the beautiful drapey-ness of the cloth. Quite super!

REF: 3363 WIDTH: 130cm/51”

£6.75 per metre

✿✿JUMBLY This is another cloth in excess of 150cm wide in cream cotton, knitted in a heavy t-shirt/light track suiting weight with a crinkly bottom sort of finish. £6.00 per metre

L

✿✿MIX AND MATCH 150cm wide very pretty black embroidered taffeta. The embroidered flower is in a mainly single line of silver thread. Mix with black or silver, perfect evening wear. £7.00 per metre

✿✿MIRAGE AND MARY Two 146cm wide cotton poplin dress fabrics. m) Mirage - a pretty small scale floral on a black ground. l) Mary - a very pretty floral on a vivid red ground. Go on I dare you!

REF: 1998 WIDTH: 146cm/57”

✿✿LESS DEEP

£6.50 per metre

M

REF: 3367 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

REF: 3364 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£23.50 per metre

✿✿LUST LOVE

✿✿IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL REF: 3362 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£5.00 per metre

£7.00 per metre

150cm wide super fine gorgeous silk like Italian cotton lawn in a rich dark royal purpley blue.

REF: 3364B WIDTH: 150cm/59”

HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? HIGHLY SLUNG

£6.50 per metre

JUMBLY IGNORE AT YOUR PERIL

JUBILICOUS LIBERTY SILK PANSIES

6 | Croft Mill UK Ltd Primet Business Centre, Burnley Road, Colne, Lancashire BB8 8DQ

LESS DEEP LUST LOVE - JAPANESE GARDEN

beautiful fabrics delivered to your door ✿✿MOLESKIN

✿✿MORE YORKSHIRE WOOLLENS

Amongst the room full of new fabrics are these 150cm wide proper cotton moleskin, fabulous. In either: a) Pale Olive b) Rust c) Camel REF: 3368 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

Being More the former come later, anyway, moving on (more Yorkshire wools later). Superb cloths woven in Yorkshire.

£8.00 per metre

✿✿MOURNFUL 170cm wide seriously fine, delicate and very beautiful polyester chiffon in Black. Be alone with your thoughts.

REF: 3370 WIDTH: 170cm/66”

£5.00 per metre

✿✿MIRACLE MAN

b) Oak Barrel - is an absolutely fabulous flat tweed suiting in lovely autumn tones of gold rust and shades of brown, all very carefully interwoven.

Very much in the way of modern football I am brought here to present fabrics in their best light. Many have cost an arm and a leg and they sit side by side with some that have only cost an arm but in some cases it’s the same cloth that’s cost a leg as well, market forces it’s called be all that as it may I don’t think I should be sacked for not knowing about cloth but maybe for not being able to talk about it sensibly, we have about 30 items of which I will list 5 here. More for later as is a supposed to be a short newsletter. These velvets and cords are from the very best Italian and German Mills'.

c) Hamish - is a very traditional Scottish highland tweed check in oatmeal, brown, turquoise.

REF: 3372

b) Velvet Navy - is sumptuous fine cotton velvet almost identical to number 1 but this time in the richest dark navy blue. Width: 148cm/58”. c) Velvet Coral - a fairly lightweight cotton velvet probably shirting in a lovely rich deep salmony pink with perhaps hint of orange. Width: 148cm/58”.

✿✿NO COMMENT In the midst of all these cotton trousering’s I have come across, not accidently it would appear, two rolls of rather splendid superfine wool worsted suiting’s. Both made from identical yarns i.e. the finest of the dyed in and woven in different ways even. they both have an extremely soft silky hand and appear not to be able to crease, I can’t believe that’s the case but they will hang and drape beautifully.

b) Navy Check - the second is a navy blue and grey check which is outlined in red with kind of a fine line over stripe in red.

REF: 3374 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

e) Jumbo Cord - a truly fabulous cotton bay jumbo cord in a delightful shade of sea green. Width: 155cm/61”.

£17.00 – CORDS £7.50 per metre

150cm wide nice stretch polyester jersey in another shade of black which folds and falls as graciously as you like or indeed it can be as skin tight as you like. The old ones are the best they say. This has a dull matt finish.

REF: 3375 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

MIRACLE MAN - LEFT TO RIGHT - EXCEEDINGLY SUPERFINE, VELVET SALMON, VELVET CORAL, VELVET NAVY, JUMBO CORD, DAMSON CORD LUST LOVE - ENGLISH GARDEN

MIRAGE AND MARY

M

£7.50 per metre

✿✿NIPLENDA

f) Exceedingly Superfine - cotton needlecord shirting, this time in a absolutely glorious shade of kingfisher blue. Width: 143cm/56”.

VELVETS

£19.00 per metre

a) Black Check - is an extremely subtle check in black and grey with a faint fine line over stripe in red.

d) Damson Cord - is a deep damson, fine cotton corduroy which has had a softness added that I’m fairly certain I’ve not come across before.

Width: 153cm/60”.

WIDTH: AS STATED

WIDTH: ALL AT LEAST 150cm/59”

N

a) Velvet Salmon - A rather wonder pale salmon, pale pink cotton velvet finely woven and very close cropped, the gloriously soft and drapey hand. Width: 148cm/58”.

REF: 3371

a) Gay Gordons - Do you remember when that was a dance? Very jolly thing it was too. I remember our church hall, well it wasn’t really a church hall it was the Primary school hall rocking to the delights Gay Gordons and lots of people whirling around the floor manfully avoiding the cups of tea and cream cakes and some but not all would be dressed in skirts and indeed kilts which were probably made from this cloth I’m about to describe to you or one very similar to it which in fact is a fax simile of a dress Gordon tartan which comes in Navy blue, dark green with a fine over check in yellow and blocks of white and interesting variations where the yarns cross each other. Lovely cloth with a beautiful hand.

£5.00 per metre

MIX AND MATCH

MORE YORKSHIRE WOOL - HAMISH

MORE YORKSHIRE WOOL - GAY GORDANS

MORE YORKSHIRE WOOL - OAK BARREL

L

To see our full range of fabrics and place your order online visit www.croftmill.co.uk or call 01282 859281 | 7

All about fabric

P

SAMPLES If ordering by post, please send us the reference number and name of the fabric you want plus the following depending on your requirements. Where there are a number of items under a reference please specify your preference; a, b, c, etc.

1-5 samples: please post your request and include a SAE 6-10 samples £2.50 (non-refundable) 11-25 samples £5.00 (non-refundable)

REF: 3380 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£10.00 per metre

150cm wide lovely soft jet black polyester twill dress fabric - lovely hand and drape.

✿✿NOT A LOT OF IT ABOUT

REF: 1630 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

47cm wide tubular knitted cotton rib in white, quite fine and somewhat stretchy because it’s knitted. As for a partner; you’ll be able to dye it won’t you? £6.00 per metre

✿✿NYMPHS AND SHEPHERDS 150cm wide very nice heavy cream viscose suiting you might describe it as or certainly very drapey dress fabric in cream.

REF: 3377 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

150cm wide very soft poly cotton elastane” track suiting” fairly fine with a smooth finish black on one side and a navy blue and grey paisley swirly leaf print on the other. For the more sophisticated jogger.

✿✿POLLY

You can also view all our fabrics and order samples at www.croftmill.co.uk

REF: 3376 WIDTH: 47cm/18”

✿✿PAISLEY PONTE

£5.00 per metre

O

£5.50 per metre

✿✿PONGEE I think that term for a cloth may have originated in India and maybe at the time there was an imitation of something that was particularly Indian and rather expensive. Fine as you like with a lovely soft hand. Jubilicous! a) Damson b) Mid Grey REF: 3381 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£5.50 per metre

✿✿PILLAR BOX 150cm wide. Beautiful viscose lycra jersey in red.

REF: 3382 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

✿✿OH MAR SHERIFF NOT SHERIFFE 150cm wide blissfully fine and smooth and soft cotton lawn in a bit of a desert designs colour of wild mushroom, since when did they grow in the desert. Sea Lawrence of Arabia.

REF: 3378 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.00 per metre

✿✿ORKADIA 150cm wide very fine viscose, lycra jersey in black with a huge floral design in mainly greens and blue, a bit of yellow with far reaching frons spreading out not exactly all over the cloth, there is an area in the centre where there is no design at all but it’s not a border print as I see it. Very striking, an almost dare to wear cloth.

REF: 3379 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

MOLESKIN - LEFT TO RIGHT - PALE OLIVE, RUST, CAMEL MOURNFUL

£6.00 per metre

✿✿POPLIN PRINTS Pretty prints onto a lovely cotton poplin base cloth. a) Dalias Delight b) Aqua Delight REF: 3333 WIDTH: 114cm/44”

£5.00 per metre

Q ✿✿QUILTED JACKET LINING 145cm wide quilted lining. This is approximately a 1oz wadding onto which one has been stitched a dark brown nylon, sadly it is not weatherproof so this is only useful for lining.

REF: 3383 WIDTH:145cm/57”

NO COMMENT - BLACK CHECK OH MAR SHERIFF NOT SHERIFFE

£6.25 per metre

ORKADIA PAISLEY PONTE

PILLAR BOX PONGEE

A

8 | Croft Mill UK Ltd Primet Business Centre, Burnley Road, Colne, Lancashire BB8 8DQ

£6.00 per metre

B

beautiful fabrics delivered to your door

R

✿✿SPOTTED 150 cm wide finely woven, very drapey, black, viscose dress fabric with an all over 50 pence piece sized round polka dot print in white or perhaps slightly off white.

✿✿ROSETTA 155cm wide finely woven but substantial cotton dress fabric in a glorious bright peachy orange with a sparse but all over leafy print in brown, white, green, dark pink and other two tones of the base colour, very much a green stamps with tequila sort of cloth. Think about it...

REF: 3384 WIDTH: 155cm/61”

REF: 3386 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

✿✿SPARKLE

£6.50 per metre

Three very sparkly and very nice quality sequined dress fabrics, all very different, I hope the photos do most of the work for me. They come in

✿✿RED LIPSTICK

a) Black and Wine - black with a wine colours floral pattern.

145cm wide. Flame Red, very tightly woven, beautifully drapey polyester.

Great dress fabric in a quite gorgeous flame red. It is a beautifully soft hand and would be quite at home in dresses, trousers, and tops, in fact just please yourself.

REF: 2006A WIDTH: 145cm/57”

b) 1920’s - all gold on a black net in a very 1920’s style pattern. c) All Saints - Stunning large scale patterned sequin fabrics in white and beige.

REF: 1402 WIDTH: 145cm/57”

£8.25 per metre

Two 146cm wide stretch jacquards made from 67% viscose 29% polyimide 4% spandex .The quality is similar is very market forces defies the price.

140cm wide red leatherette with a white condensed polyester wadding backing to keep heat off wooden tables. I could actually also make a pair of robot like leggings but not recommended.

a) Navy, black and grey geometric abstract design £8.25 per metre

£5.50 per metre

b) Black and grey floral design £6.50 per metre (PICTURE ON THE BACK COVER)

S

REF: 3387

✿✿SHOW OFF

WIDTH: AS STATED

Superb quality Italian black ponti roma, it is 140cm wide viscose nylon elastane densely knitted and fairly heavy jersey is ideal, where you may need very hard wearing cloth that will also be easy to look after.

REF: 2105 WIDTH: 140cm/55”

£15.00 per metre

✿✿SLOW TWIRL (PICTURE ON THE BACK COVER) A 135cm wide beautiful European made skirt/light trouser weight polyester satin backed crepe in a flamenco deep orangey-red.

Made for Issey Miyake, lovely clobber. Get your maracas out.

£4.00 per metre

REF: 1931 WIDTH: 135cm/53”

A

prices as stated

✿✿SADDLE UP

You’ve probably seen them on telly, might even have met them in the pub, they are the ones that deliberately walk in with their jackets open obviously attached to their shoulder with the lining showing. They know that you know they are going to have a jacket made out of something rather special so they show off the lining but rightly so to particularly if it’s a good as the one I’m about to tell you about which is 140cm wide.

It’s in cream and has the finest pinstripes in navy blue with sporadic interventions of a red one. Very soft and satiny, very fine and really is worth showing off.

REF: 3385 WIDTH: 140cm/55”

£ 10.95 per metre

✿✿STRETCH JACQUARD

✿✿RED TABLE PROTECTOR REF: 1461B WIDTH: 140cm/55”

£4.75 per metre

£15.00 per metre

B

POPLIN PRINTS QUILTED JACKET LINING

RED LIPSTICK

SPARKLE - 1920'S

SHOW OFF

ROSETTA

SPARKLE

SPOTTED

C

A

To see our full range of fabrics and place your order online visit www.croftmill.co.uk or call 01282 859281 | 9

All about fabric

STRAWBERRY THIEF

THE CAT IN THE HAT

STRETCH JACQUARD

THE COLOUR PALE

THE PEAK TIGHT LEGS

✿✿STRAWBERRY THIEF

✿✿THE PEAK

This is a cotton print by Morris and Co, printed by Sanderson. The background is pale mottled duck egg blue. The cloth itself is very fine cotton poplin and over all its at least 150 cm but the print is only 137cm wide. Make of it what you will! Its original use was for soft furnishing. This is £60 on a high street stores website, not that that will sway you I know.

REF: 2191 WIDTH: 137cm/54”

✿✿THEM THAR HILLS (PICTURE ON THE BACK COVER)

£11.75 per metre

✿✿THE CAT IN THE HAT

£4.50 per metre

✿✿THE COLOUR PALE 145cm wide very pale pink cotton with some lycra fine twill with pretty much all over but fairly sparse floral pattern in black and grey. Attack is the best form of defence. £6.00 per metre

✿✿THE DEEP 150cm wide absolutely stunning cotton lawn shirting in a deep kingfisher blue.

REF: 3390 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.00 per metre

You will all be aware that the Dunne Estele type of long short has passed comfortably into history, I have elderly golf colleagues of mine who prefer the long wide short or even the short wide short for the amount of ventilation it affords, these narrow ones however tend to minimise the spindly-ness of the leg but don’t necessarily afford the comfort one seeks on a long walk. Long withstanding all this this 150cm wide grey with blue chambray lightweight trousering is just the ticket for the tighter shorts or skirts or long trousers for that matter. Fabulous cloth, beautifully made.

REF: 3394 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

This 140cm wide fine viscose, lycra jersey in black and white has a pattern that triggered my memory of a DR Seuss book illustration and I don’t really know why, it’s just a random splodgy black and white design but awfully attractive.

REF: 3389 WIDTH: 145cm/57”

REF: 3392 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

✿✿TIGHT LEGS

A 150cm gold suiting actually made up of black and gold yarns, otherwise I think the gold would be overpowering. As it is, it has very much a touch of class. Good evening wear jacket tackle this.

REF: 3388 WIDTH: 140cm/55”

150cm wide very finely pleated polyester with the look of cheesecloth with a design that reminds me of a view of Hong Kong harbour at night.

A myriad of colourful markings which can look a lot like the many high rise buildings there are in Hong Kong. A quite fabulous abstract design.

£16.95 per metre

T

REF: 2061 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

WHEN I WERE A LAD

£6.00 per metre

£6.75 per metre

✿✿TRICKOMARLEY In the land of golden slumbers and never-ending dreams there comes a cloth that we can all dream about. It’s 150cm wide cotton lawn of the purest silky quality you will ever come across, you may find yourself so over roared that you’ll just have to stand and look at it or just cut a hole in it, slip it over your head and stand there feeling it’s absolute sensuality.

All this and I haven’t had a drink.

REF: 3395 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.00 per metre

V ✿✿VOILE OH VOILE 150cm wide polyester lightweight suiting in a lovely shade of mushroom, there’s a little bit of crepe-ness to the feel. The yarns used are, not all but some difference in colour is apparent on close inspection, a very smart and easy care cloth.

REF: 3396 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

W

10 | Croft Mill UK Ltd Primet Business Centre, Burnley Road, Colne, Lancashire BB8 8DQ

£6.00 per metre

beautiful fabrics delivered to your door

TRICKOMARLEY WE’VE BEGUN OUR DESCENT

YORKSHIRE WOOLS - FROM LEFT TO RIGHT - GLORIOUS - CHALK STRIPE - ODD ONE OUT - TWIGGY

WINDPROOF FLEECE - LEFT TO RIGHT - AQUA, PEACHY PINK, IVORY

WATERPROOF LIGHTWEIGHT CANVAS - LEFT TO RIGHT - PURPLE, FLUORESCENT PINK, FLUORESCENT YELLOW, RED, BOTTLE, NAVY, ROYAL, BLACK

BALINESE

✿✿ WE’VE BEGUN OUR DESCENT This is almost 160cm wide fine medium weight grey 95% viscose 5% lycra jersey with in a cloudy grey colour, the sort of colour that tells you your holiday’s over. Beautifully soft hand and crease resistant cloth. This has a good body so wont drape into nothing, there is some structure to this jersey.

REF: 3398 WIDTH: 160cm/62”

£6.25 per metre

✿✿ WHEN I WERE A LAD I can remember when a loaf of bread were tuppence and you had to walk up big hills to go and get it and you used to follow the milk cart around to collect all the manure left in the street which was always a problem if you didn’t have a shovel at the time. Were things better for being simple?

I have here a 150cm wide cream viscose, lycra, jersey with a big black floral border print extending up to half way down the cloth, so there’s quite a bit of cream to spare as it were. You could wear it t’other way where the design goes from the neck to the waist, now there’s a thing.

REF: 3399 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

£6.00 per metre

This almost 2 metre wide loosely knit cotton pique leisure garment fabric comes in pure white and is very much a cloth to wear after exercise or maybe even during exercise or just for lounging about, watching people cheat at football or indeed a lot of sports these days. £7.00 per metre

a) Glorious - is an absolutely fabulous wool suiting in navy blue with the faintest of white chalk stripes. b) Chalk Stripe - is in a mid-grey with a fine white chalk stripe and if anything an even finer blue chalk stripe in-between the other chalk stripes.

d) Twiggy - is a fine lightweight tweed in every rustic autumn colour you can think of.

REF: 3373 WIDTH: 152cm/59”

100% polyester fleece which has a tightly woven self coloured backing which appears to be windproof. You could wear this either way, it comes in: a) Aqua b) Ivory c) Peachy Pink £6.50 per metre

Z A 150cm wide fairly fine 95% Viscose, 5% Elastane jersey. This is a colourful all over abstract design which could be a forest fire; it could be lightening flashing over a forest, or simply a figment of someone's imagination. All the shapes of which there are many, are varied and outlined in fine like ink as it were and it is a bit of an outer body experience. A fantastic cloth!

REF: 3011 WIDTH: 150cm/59”

✿✿WATERPROOF LIGHTWEIGHT CANVAS 150cm wide waterproof lightweight canvas: a) Flo Yellow b) Black c) Royal e) Flo Pink f) Purple g) Bottle REF: 3401 WIDTH:150cm/59”

£19.00 per metre

✿✿ZARA HOTHRA (PICTURE ON THE FRONT PAGE)

✿✿WINDPROOF FLEECE

REF: 3331 WIDTH: 145cm/57”

✿✿YORKSHIRE WOOL There’s been much huffing and puffing lately in sport, in politics and indeed in business about why something didn’t succeed, we can all have our opinions and we can argue amongst ourselves but when it gets into newspapers or on telly it assumes monumental proportions and blame has to be attached to the extent where people lose their jobs and then you look at some of the images from Syria and immediately it all becomes very trivial, so we can put that behind us now can’t we. If anyone was to attach blame to this next little batch of cloths it would be Yorkshire, suit makers some of the finest wool cloths money can buy, but whilst there may be others as we go down Croft Mill’s awesome road these four are worth mentioning as I have come across them.

c) Odd One Out - is a black wool, lightweight coating, I say this because whilst I’m sure you can make trousers out of it I think it’s too heavy for that.

✿✿ WIDER THAN A MILE

REF: 3400 WIDTH: 200cm/78”

Y

£9.95 per metre

OUR GUARANTEE d) Navy h) Red £4.50 per metre

As long as it has not been cut we will replace or make a refund for anything not to your liking within 14 days delivery of your fabrics.

After that we are reasonable too, so please just call us and we will do what we can.

To see our full range of fabrics and place your order online visit www.croftmill.co.uk or call 01282 859281 | 11

WATERPROOF LIGHTWEIGHT CANVAS PAGE 11

HIGHLY SLUNG PAGE 5

HELICOPTER PAGE 5

BOHEMIAN PAGE 2

SLOW TWIRL PAGE 9

PUT THE KETTLE PAGE

STRAWBERRY THEIF PAGE 10 MIRACLE MAN PAGE 7

FREE FALLING - GREEN PAGE 5 CHRISTMAS POLYCOTTONS PAGE 4

MIRAGE AND MARY - MARY PAGE 7 SEQUINS - ALL SAINTS PAGE 9

ARMADIDDLE PAGE 2 THEM THAR HILLS PAGE 10

PONGEE - DAMSON PAGE 8

THE CAT IN THE HAT PAGE 10

ROSETTA PAGE 9

STRETCH JAQUARD PAGE 9

MIX AND MATCH PAGE 6

THE PEAK PAGE 10

Croft Mill UK Ltd Primet Business Centre, Burnley Road, Colne, Lancashire BB8 8DQ www.croftmill.co.uk | Telephone 01282 859281 @CroftMillFabric | facebook/Croft-Mill-Fabric