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Make Your Own Monster! With Faux Furry Fabric.

Its so easy to make your own monster! All you need is some faux fur fabric, stick on eyes and your imagination! You can create any personality you want for you monster. Cute, mischievous, angry, shy, silly or serious. Look to Jim Henson’s masterpieces Sesame Street and The Muppets for inspiration.

Make a grumpy grouch like monster like Oscar the Grouch, a kind character like Grover or a fun loving monster like Elmo. Make a puppet monster to have at your side, or make a costume for you or your own little monsters! Click on for some monster ideas with personality and get creating with our furry faux fabric….

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Fantasy Fabrics for Halloween Costumes

Halloween has become an annual excuse to dress up, and why not?There are so many directions to go, it’s an ideal time to come up with some wacky ideas. Halloween has come a long way from doom and gloom displays and standard spooky scenes. Halloween has personality, everyone has their own version and ideas have gone way beyond witches and ghosts.

Halloween dress up has grown from classic horror inspired themes to the weird and wonderful. Anything goes now, cute monsters, glamorous Gothic, sci-fi, horror, or fantasy. You don’t even have to go for a creepy theme, funny is the new Halloween scene. You can add a twist to the traditional or come up with a personal pun related costume to get the laughs. Whatever you go for, have fun with it. You don’t have to spend too much time or money on a costume to get a great effect.

Here are some quick fire ideas you can play with. Easy to use fabric for quick costume ideas for all ages and themes. Click on to see ….

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PVC Coated Panama, The Party Fabric!

Tough, durable, waterproof,colourful and clean. Wipe clean. With 18 colours available from bright to subtle, you can match the fabric to your decor. There are many other waterproof fabrics out there to choose from, but PVC Panama is particularly good as a protector due to the weight and the thick PVC coating. The fabrics itself is made from a strong plain cotton drill which is then oil and PVC coated. This creates fabric that can withstand constant tough and practical use.

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Totally Tubular Fabric!

Tube Fabric?

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. Fabric as a tube, created in a tubular form. This type of fabric comes in handy for all sorts of practical tasks as well as fashion and sports clothing. There is a fabric out there for every kind of task, but more often than not, we simply don’t know whats really available. Tubular fabric has been used in certain industries for a very long time, yet unless you work or study fabrics and textiles you may not be aware of it. It may be perfect for your next project. Read on to see if our tubular fabric is just what you didn’t realise you needed!

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Hessian Scrim Netting Fabric

New to our hessian range is a simple large holed net fabric, known as hessian scrim. Lightweight yet heavy duty, the structure may be basic but this fabric shows a lot of versatility from creative projects to industrial use. The netting is made from 100% natural and biodegradable hessian yarn loosely woven into roughly 1 cm square mesh. The hessian is woven in a natural state so the yarn is rough and taught with no stretch. It’s these attributes that make the hessian net so hard wearing and a great multi use fabric.

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Waterproof Biodegradable Calico Fabric

A classic calico with a clever twist. Not only is it waterproof but its fully biodegradable too. The back of the fabric is coated with a white coating designed to block water coming through the fabric. This coating was designed to gradually disintegrate in time. This unusual coating is unlike most other PVC related products. This will certainly help towards you doing your bit to help our environment.

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Fire Retardant Polyester Fabric

Fire Retardant polyester fabric

100% Polyester fabric, treated with a non-durable fire retardant (NDR – FR),

Excellent fabric with high opacity makes it the right fabric for stage back drops, curtains, wall covering good option as a fabric to create a masked stage area, scenery, control light spill, Ideal for covering stage borders and legs in theatres. Continue reading “Fire Retardant Polyester Fabric”

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Dense Headlining Felt Fabric

Felt Head liner fabric 2mm thick
This fabric is highly versatile for many uses, Felt fabric is a dense non-woven fabric matted and compressed fibers without any woven weft or warp fiber. Continue reading “Dense Headlining Felt Fabric”

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Soft Feel Uphostery Fabric Range

Feel Good Fabric

purple and gold dupion silk and velvet upholstery fabric — Gold and violet velvet with two tone violet and gold Dupion Silk

Fabric to lounge on, that looks and feels soft. That’s what we mean by soft feel upholstery. I have hand picked some of the best in our collection to show off in this upholstery blog. Click on for fore info…

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Develop Your Product With Fabric UK

Starting From Scratch

So you have a great idea and want to run with it, what now?

Create a detailed product design
Source the materials needed
Have a prototype made

We will help kick-start your project and work with you to build your idea up to production level, and even produce the items for you. If your product can be created with our expertise, we will stick with you through the whole process, from sketching out your idea and producing your first batch, to working closely with your business as a regular supplier and producer of your products.

Together, our fabric experts will use our knowledge bank to get to grips with your idea, make suggestions and ensure the project stays withing your budget and is comes to life exactly how you visualised it.

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