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I am Dawn, Fabworks Online product specialist & description writer. This is my own story & sentiment for the inspiration behind our recent Heart of Huddersfield project

People often ask where I get my inspiration from when writing Fabworks’ fabric descriptions. I always say that I am inspired by many things especially nature, particularly the landscape and flora and fauna within. I am a proud Yorkshire woman and I was blessed with parents and grandparents that were also born and bred Yorkshire, who instilled in me an appreciation for Yorkshire’s countryside as well as its people, plants and animals.

Hi, I'm Emma & I make bags. Here's a short piece written by me for Fabworks about bag-making using the new Heart of Huddersfield range of wool tweeds.

As a maker of bags, my fabric radar is almost always set to ‘tweed’, its like I can smell it! I was once driving back from a sewing weekend in Malhamdale, stopped for coffee in the middle of nowhere and discovered a small quilting shop with a whole wall full of the stuff. Heaven! I love using wool, not only can I stitch it on my domestic sewing machine, but it is also hard-wearing and water resistant, which means that it is the perfect alternative to leather for the home sewist when bag making.

Every tiny detail for our own bespoke HoH collection of woollen fabrics was selected through careful planning and preparation. A unique recipe of textile ingredients that has turned out even better than we expected!

We are so excited! We cannot wait to reveal what we have been working on since the beginning of the year and share the fruits of our labour...

Huddersfield is famous for its woollen manufacturing, being one of the most impressive and renowned producers of wool cloth across the world. Fabworks is fortunate enough to have access to its mills, experience its heritage first hand and support the local industry that is built on tradition and its surrounding landscape.

Creating the yarn combinations was probably the most difficult thing when it came to designing our own wool tweeds.

A thorough introduction to the Kaleidoscopic Galaxies scuba double jersey fabric, as featured by Fabworks. 

When we decided that Leopard Shadows viscose and cotton jacquard was going to be our Fabric of The Month my immediate thoughts were; which colour shall I choose?

There are three beautiful colourways in this collection: Cream, Dark Magenta, and French Navy. It can be difficult to choose which one to go for when you’re a bit of a fabric addict, so if you take a shine to all of them the only thing to do is take them all!