Craft Focus - Feb/Mar (Issue 65)

craft focus 71 fabrics fun with fabrics Stock the latest fabrics to introduce your customers to soft crafts COSY QUILTS With 70 years’ experience selling fabrics, Visage Textiles and The Craft Cotton Company is more excited than ever with the wonderful new fabrics arriving in 2018. The quilt collections include Moroccan Bazaar, A Cottage Garden by Debbie Shore, a new collaboration with Stuart Hillard called Japanese Garden and the USA brand ‘3 Wishes’. The company is a distributor for licensed character designs and its new ranges this year include Mickey Mouse, Marvel Characters, Disney Princesses, Peter Rabbit and Harry Potter. They also have a licence with The Natural History Museum to produce fabrics for craft and quilting – you can expect fantastic educational and fun prints. Visage Textiles +44 (0)161 832 2213 visagetextiles.com SUPER SOFT FLEECE Empee Silk Fabrics have long been known for having the most extensive range of fabrics in the UK at the best possible prices and this year they are introducing a new website where customers from all over the UK (and further afield too) can easily search and order from their full range. They are also launching brand new designs in the super soft cuddle fleece and Polycotton ranges this year. Empee Silk Fabrics Ltd +44 (0)20 8887 6000 wholesalefabrics.co.uk WONDERFUL WALL ART If you have the perfect piece of fabric just begging to be shown off, look no further. The NeedCraft Textile Wall Art Kit contains everything you need to get from point A to B when making a bespoke wall art interior for your home. These astonishingly simple to use kits are available in three shapes: circle, square and rectangle all in an assortment of sizes. They can be used with your favourite fabric designs whether it’s bright and vibrant or a more traditional vintage feel. The kits are also available in workshop packs for schools and private classes making this the perfect product to get students involved in arts and crafts whilst learning new skills along the way! Dannells’ NeedCraft +44 (0)1992 700 311 dannells.com