How to sew velvet and velour – Pound Fabrics

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Velvet is the ultimate luxury fabric - nothing quite beats the cool, rich weight of velvet against your skin. Velvet requires a gentle hand and a little patience to sew, but the results are worthwhile for a stunning, elegant garment! This guide is designed to help make sewing Velvet easier, so that you don't waste any of your luxurious fabric and feel confident creating beautiful garments! Whilst Velvet has strong historical links to European royalty - it is thought to originate from Eastern culture. Velvet, or 'quirong jin' and 'rongquan jin', was particularly popular in ancient China and Egypt where it was woven using Silk. The process to create the textile was particularly time consuming, so was reserved exclusively for royalty or the very rich. Eventually, Velvet was discovered by Western society, and entered into trade on the Silk road.
Velvet is the ultimate luxury fabric - nothing quite beats the cool, rich weight of velvet against your skin. Velvet requires a gentle hand and a little patience to sew, but the results are worthwhile for a stunning, elegant garment! This guide is designed to help make sewing Velvet easier, so that you don't waste any of your luxurious fabric and feel confident creating beautiful garments! Whilst Velvet has strong historical links to European royalty - it is thought to originate from Eastern culture. Velvet, or 'quirong jin' and 'rongquan jin', was particularly popular