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August 2025

Feature of The Month

Attention all textile lovers!

Are you a crafting enthusiast, a textiles creative, an experimental dyer, or a busy parent looking for summer holiday fun? If fabric fun is your thing, then the Cotton Mystery Box is calling you!

This mystery box isn't too much of a mystery, however every box is different and there are only 50 available! What's inside? Each box contains medium/heavyweight natural white 100% cotton fabrics in a variety of shades, textures and weaves, sourced from a UK textiles print specialist, guaranteeing you top quality fabric and giving endless possibilities for what these fabrics can do! Whether you're planning a weekend of making, getting creative with the kids, or experimenting with your next sewing idea, this box offers a sustainable and inspiring starting point. Thoughtfully packed into 100% cardboard packaging, and full of creative potential, this blank canvas is the kind of delivery that sparks ideas as soon as you open it.

Cotton Mystery Box

£40.00
each
Fabric Code: CottonMysteryBox SKU: 118655

Only 5 units of this product left



What's in the Mystery Box:
  • 8-10 metres total length of 100% cotton fabrics of medium/heavy weight
  • 1 x Moons 1000-yard thread in coordinating natural white shade - yards and yards of potential!
  • A letter to you, the owner of the mystery box, from the Fabworks team

All hand-selected and packed into a handy reusable & recyclable 100% cardboard box.

About the Fabrics:

Each mystery box contains fabric selected from an assortment of cotton fabrics.

All the fabrics included in the mystery boxes are UK-made, sourced from a textiles print specialist in the north of England. These fabrics are from an assortment of natural white 100% cotton in a variety of shades, weights, textures and weaves.

  • Volume: 8-10 metres of fabric total per Mystery Box
  • Length: a minimum length of 3m and a maximum of 10m
  • Quantity: 3.5-4kg of fabric, split across 1-3 individual pieces
  • Composition: 100% Cotton
  • Colour: All pieces in variations of natural white
  • Weight: Medium/Heavy
  • Width: Minimum width of 140cm
  • Weave: All pieces feature a stable, close weave

Each box contains approx. 8–10 metres of natural white cotton across one to three pieces (depending on available stock). You may receive a single continuous piece, or a mix of lengths—totalling around 3.5–4kg

About the Package:

Each and every mystery selection will be hand packaged and delivered to you in a 100% cardboard recyclable box that weighs between 3.5-4kg, that's a lot of mystery goodies!

Did you know you get free UK shipping when you buy two boxes?

How To Get Creative Using Your Mystery Box ✂

Unleash your creativity with the Cotton Mystery Box, a beautifully curated bundle designed to inspire makers, crafters, and textile lovers alike. Sourced from a UK textiles print specialist, these high-quality cotton fabrics are perfect for printing, dyeing, crafting, or experimenting with new projects. 

Here's one we worked on earlier - testing the same fabrics for their ability to take dye. Voilà!

Feel Inspired

Printing & Dying: Natural dying techniques, tie-dye projects, block printing, screen printing and batik. You can even fit this fabric to a frame just like an artists canvas, and paint, draw, print directly onto it!

Toiling: Practice makes perfect! Use your fabrics to toile ‘denim style' garments and other heavier outerwear styles, such as dungarees, jackets, coats, jeans, shorts and waistcoats (note: the fabrics are not actual denim).

Craft: Hand-crafted items, wearable crafts such as durable aprons, hats and bags (we love The Frame Bag) with little embroidered detailing. Also perfect for summer holiday craft projects with children, use these fabrics as a blank canvas to hold all your creativity. Create appliquéd designs, or free machine embroider your art. There are endless possibilities for mixed media textile art.

Furnishing: Perfect for cushions, draught excluders, or custom home décor. The neutral base is ideal for dyeing to suit any colour scheme, or leave natural for a clean, minimal look.

Clothing: With all the lovable properties of cotton, these fabrics, of course, are suitable for long-lasting clothing items sure to become your wardrobe favourites. Durable and hardwearing ‘denim style’ garments are great for any fabric in this Cotton Mystery Box, especially structured utility style pieces such as trousers, jeans, shorts, dungarees, jackets and waistcoats.

If clothing is on your agenda, we would suggest patterns such as the Cordelia Trousers, the Dawn Jeans, the Naia Pants, the Lynsey Dungarees, the Osborn Dungarees, the Ilford Jacket, the Belvedere Waistcoat and the Jemima Waistcoat.

To Toile 🧵

These medium to heavy-weight cottons are perfect for testing structured garments such as jackets, coats, and trousers. If, like us, you prefer to perfect the fit and construction of your pattern before cutting into your prized fabric — we're looking at you, Heart of Huddersfield — creating a toile is a smart step.

These durable cottons are also great for marking adjustments directly onto the fabric with pencils or pens. And if your first version turns out beautifully, why not take it a step further and dye it? You’ll have a finished garment and a second outfit in one go!

Toiling is ideal to refine your sewing project before committing to your final fabric. In garment construction, a toile is a prototype of a design made from inexpensive fabric, often plain in design so that you can focus on the how the fabric moves and not distracted from its design. A toile is used to test fit, drape, and construction techniques before cutting into the final fabric. Creating a toile helps identify and correct issues early, saving time and materials in the final garment.

Additional Information ❓

Each Box: For every Cotton Mystery Box ordered you will receive one box filled with 100% cotton fabrics + other Fabworks goodies. Minimum total length 8m

Purpose: The fabrics included in the Mystery Box were originally purposed for printing & dying, sourced from a cotton printing manufacturer in the UK. Rescue & repurpose these one-offs for a host of textile art projects

Laundering: We suggest laundering your cotton fabrics before using, if the item you plan to make will require laundering

Mystery: All Cotton Mystery Boxes are different, all fabrics included are from a large stock of assorted deadstock rolls. We do not guarantee continuity from one box to another. No two boxes are the same

Quality Guaranteed: All Cotton Mystery Box contents have been put together by hand by the Fabworks team, with quality assurance throughout for high quality and free of any imperfections

Sourcing Stock & Background 📦

Prepared For Print!

All the Mystery Box cottons were originally purposed for printing, sourced from a specialist textile printing manufacturer in the UK. These prepared for print fabrics are free of oil and have no natural softeners added. They have had no chemical finishes and are perfect for printing, dyeing painting and crafting

Why These Fabrics Are Great ⭐

These cottons are a perfect choice for a wide range of textile projects, including clothing, home furnishing, crafting & much more

  • Breathable
  • Durable & hard-wearing
  • Washable, with high temperature tolerance
  • Blank canvas for colour customisation

Extra Info & Disclaimer

1 unit = 1 Mystery Box
(Stock limitations: 50 total units available! No restocking once sold out)
All Mystery Boxes are unique, no two boxes are the same

FoTM is a non-returnable product