Our wool mix fabric provides a cosy and substantial backing for a cushion. It’s hardwearing and has a slightly rustic feel. If you’ve finished a tapestry and need a sturdy and practical fabric for the backing, our woolly range may well be for you.
We don’t have as many colour options as we do in our range of cotton fabric for your tapestry. That said, the shades that we have are great and it’s worth bearing in mind that you can mix our fabric ranges, perhaps having cotton piping and woolly backing or vice versa.
Let’s look at the woolly colours that we have, starting with the reds and purples:
The intense colours of the woolly fabric make them ideal as borders and backing for our A-Z Animals series. Shown here is Anna’s A for Ark, which has a 3″ border of Carnation JRWR01 and contrast piping in Turquoise JRWB04.
On to the terracottas with a nice variety from the quiet Hacienda JRWY08, to Pumpkin JRWY03, often used as piping and backing for Ba-Ba-Bloom.
On to the greens, from Bright Lime JRWG01 through to Bottle Green JRWG05, and including Teal JRWG06 which as you’d expect is greeny blue…or bluey green. It’s a lovely colour, either on its own or as contrast.
Moving on to blues:
Grey fabric continues to be a popular option. Use one grey on its own for piping and backing or mix them up. Charcoal JRWG04 is a great colour for piping, often used with a lighter grey for backing. Again, the combinations are endless!
Here we are choosing fabric for a Ba-Ba-Bloom, Black piping and Pumpkin backing
Here’s Bloom-Pah-Pah, with a striking Black JRWG05 piping and Terracotta JRWY05 backing.
Checking availability of particular colours/fabric We keep very good stock levels, but some lines are discontinued by the manufacturers, often with no warning. Please email kelly@jollyred.co.uk or call Jolly Red on 01460 281111 if you need to check that a particular colour is in stock.
Fabric swatches (UK only) Email kelly@jollyred.co.uk if you’d like us to send you any particular swatches or call on 01460 281111 to discuss a tapestry that you’ve finished. We see lots of tapestries including designs by Ehrman Tapestry and can usually recommend colour and fabric combinations that have worked very successfully before.
Posting your tapestry Take a quick look at our handy checklist before you head out to the post office. We remind you to hold your tapestry up to the light to check for missed stitches, to resist the urge to trim down your canvas (we need the edges so we can stretch the canvas) and to send your work in by a ‘signed for’ method.
Christmas deadline Every year is different and because we never know how many tapestries will be arriving at the last minute it’s hard for us to set a deadline date. Please send your tapestries to us throughout the year to help us to avoid a last-minute rush, or a possible disappointment if our sewing ladies are snowed under.
We can make up non-Jolly Red tapestries if we have the capacity to do so. If you are a very prolific stitcher of both Jolly Red and other brands this will ensure that all of your tapestries are made up to the same high standard. At very busy times of the year, we do have to prioritise Jolly Red tapestry kits.
Sending a tapestry from overseas If you will be sending in a tapestry from overseas please contact us as we can advise you about the best wording to use on your parcel to avoid any customs charges.
Happy stitching, and we look forward to hearing from you and to adding the final touches to your tapestry.
Kelly
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