Folklore Garden | Viscose
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Our fabric is sold in 10cm increments . Either add your desired length to the quantity box or use the + & - buttons . Your fabric will be cut in one continuous piece
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Simply add the thread of choice to your order
Please make note of which fabric you want the thread to match and we will choose a thread for you
More About This Fabric
Folklore Garden is one of those fabrics where you'll want to spend a little time looking at all the tiny details.Set against a deep navy ground, the main design is arranged in decorative, almost tile-like sections filled with colourful flowers, trailing foliage, trees and little animal motifs. Bright pink, orange, cobalt blue and fresh green give the print a wonderfully vibrant folk-art feel.
But the real star of this fabric is the border. Running along both selvedges, a fabulous hot-pink decorative band is accompanied by rows of tiny flowers and foliage. It gives you so many possibilities for creative pattern placement — use it along the hem of a dress or skirt, across a sleeve, on cuffs, a yoke or even as a statement detail on a shirt.
The viscose base is beautifully soft and fluid with plenty of drape, allowing the print to move beautifully when worn.
Because the border appears on both sides of the fabric, you have even more flexibility when planning your layout and can really make those special details part of the finished garment.
This Fabric Is Perfect For...
Dresses, blouses, shirts, skirts, wide-leg trousers, jumpsuits, wrap styles and other softly draped garments.Suggested Patterns
Sewing Notes
Recommended Needle:
Microtex 70/10 or fine Universal needle.
Think about where you'd like the border to sit on the finished garment — it could make a fabulous dress or skirt hem, sleeve detail, shirt hem, yoke or feature panel.
Bear in mind that using the border may affect the amount of fabric you need, particularly if you want the border to appear continuously around a garment. We recommend checking your pattern pieces against the usable width and border placement before deciding on your required meterage.
Viscose can be fluid and prone to shifting while cutting, so lay the fabric on a flat surface and allow it to relax before you begin. Cutting in a single layer can be particularly helpful with this fabric, both for accuracy and for controlling exactly where the print and border fall.
Use a fine, sharp needle — approximately 70/10 or 80/12 — together with a good-quality polyester thread. Fine pins or clips will help prevent marking or distorting the fabric.
Staystitch curved and bias-cut areas such as necklines and armholes soon after cutting to prevent them from stretching out of shape.
For dresses and skirts, particularly fuller or bias-cut styles, allow the finished garment to hang before hemming as the viscose may drop slightly.
Finish seams with an overlocker, narrow zigzag or your preferred enclosed seam finish for a neat result.
⚠️Fabric Safety Information
Our fabrics are available to purchase by the home dressmaker for home use.
We do not test our fabrics for flammability. Please refer to the fabric composition in each listing for fibre content.
Please keep all fabrics away from open flames.
We do not advise using our fabrics in clothing with high risk requirements such as children’s clothes,uniforms, dancewear, sportswear, upholstery etc.
In general fabric may pose a strangulating, entanglement or suffocation risk, especially to children and vulnerable adults. Always keep out of reach of children and vulnerable adults.
