Larger Cushions

This popular service for your tapestries includes stretching your finished canvas (whatever shape it's in - none has ever defeated us!), supply of fabric, and making up with piping and a concealed zip in the back of the cushion. We also provide a feather pad with your completed cushion.

What Fabric Do You Use?

We use three ranges of fabric:

1. Our most widely used range is a wool blend range which works extremely well with most cushions as the weave of the fabric really goes with the tapestry stitch on the front. It's a lovely, cosy range of fabrics with a good choice of colours.

2. A cotton range, which has a more delicate feel. This range is useful for smaller projects requiring a mitred border, where the wool blend fabric might seem a bit heavy. Also popular for designs in paler colours. This range is also used for the backing of Jolly Red Christmas Stockings and for making up the kits in our Starter range into cushions (see below).

3. A cotton velvet range. We tend only to order in stronger colours as these are the ones that will work best with the colours in Jolly Red's designs. We have to order 2-5m of each fabric, and can't order in for instance a pale pink, knowing full well that it will sit on our shelves forever! The colours we have are: reds, purple, magenta, a few greens, a cranberry colour and some blues.

Smaller Cushions, Including Starter Kits

The kits in Jolly Red's starter range tend to be made up using our cotton fabrics, with customers typically asking for a 3" border around the design to make a nice sized cushion.

You can have some fun with the making up, and choose to have one colour for the border and backing, and a different colour for the piping.

Let us know if you need samples, and as always call us if you are unsure and need to discuss your making up.

Call 01460 281111