The Christmas Sparkle Fabric Guide!

Know Your Sparkles

As connoisseurs of all things shiny know, there is a big difference between something that shines and something that sparkles. If you are choosing Christmas sparkle fabric for your visual merchandising, displays or fashion design you have to ensure the vision is understood by everyone you are working with from the people sourcing the fabric to the people selling the fabric themselves! If you have aver been ever so slightly annoyed if someone says” oh I love your sparkly top” when you know full well its a more of a liquid flat shine then you may well appreciate this blog. Send it to anyone who needs to learn their twinkle from their shine.

OK, that may have sounded a bit pedantic but knowing the difference is important when describing a fabric to someone and when ordering online. Visual merchandisers, interior designers, set designers, artists and clothing designers should all know the differences, however subtle. When creating anything from scene or a garment you often need to describe your design to someone who wont quite see the difference in their mind, until they see the real thing. Maybe this blog will help.

Terms like sparkle or twinkle refer to materials that catch the light in a multitude of places. The size of the pieces and the direction they face determines the way light reacts with them. The smaller the pieces, the finer the sparkle, so it becomes more of a twinkle. When thousands of tiny facets that all face the same direction, they work together so the fabric can become more of a fluid shine. Whereas when light hits Glitter fabric the multitude of facets face different random directions, creating more of a sparkle to the fabric rather than a pure shine.

Keeping Score

Instead of my in depth descriptions that wander on for miles, I have devised a bullet point guide and a points out of 10 guide to help out anyone choosing their sparkle fabric! This is applied to fabric we sell, but will also help with any shiny fabric you come across in life!

Large Display Glitter Fabric

Lurex Metallic Mesh

All Over Sequin Fabric

Holographic Cyber Streak

Fine Display Glitter

Glitter Gloss Vinyl Leatherette

Paper Lame

Liquid Microdot Lame

Holographic Foil Dot

• Made from metallic dot printing, not quite as tiny as microdot lame
• Reflects the WHOLE spectrum
• Available in white or black background
• Stretch fabric, large stretch on vertical, medium on bias and a slight give on horizontal
• Good quality holographic print
• Strength of holographic colour display depends on lighting
• Sparkle 10/10
• Shine 10/10
• Metallic 10/10
• Wow factor 11/10

Glitter Mesh

Metallic Stretch Fabric

There’s More….

So that’s a general idea of the different types of shiny and sparkle fabric we stock online and in-store. We have more though, lots of sparkly Lycra dance-wear, sparkle lace and jersey, plus more fabric up our sleeves hoping to appear next year. Watch this space and check out the website. https://www.fabricuk.com/

For an even closer look at more of our sparkle and shiny fabric, check out some links to Lurex, and Sparkle fabric for visual merchandising….

Kat, Fabric UK

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