Quotes About Textiles

I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic.

I actually did an upholstery course a little while ago and have a brand-new sewing machine with my name on it, ready to start tearing apart the soft furnishings in my house.

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

There were button makers, and hat makers, and glove makers, and turpentine farmers, and laborers, and locomotive engineers, and silk spinners, and tin mill workers.

I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

I think natural fibers look better over time. The more you wear them, they look even better.

My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles from textiles I went to fashion.

but also for the sweater most expertly knitted from hand-spun wool

Gandhian economic boycott, however, combined refusal to buy English textiles with the collection of funds for the merchants precisely not to confuse the key issue by threatening their livelihood.

So much fabric, so little time! Or, sew much fabric, sew little time!

I'm itching to be stitching!

Sewing fills my days, not to mention the living room, bedroom, and closets.

Fabric is the foundation of a collection.

Ooh, the staring at threads class. My favorite.

I guess the big thing is that I don't buy anything first-hand. It's a personal policy I have for all sorts of reasons. If you research to the textile industry yourself, you'll know why. I came to it personally.

I'm not suggesting that microbial cellulose is going to be a replacement for cotton, leather or other textile materials. But I do think it could be quite a smart and sustainable addition to our increasingly precious natural resources.

My grandmother had a cupboard where she kept her collections and textile samples of all sorts of things. When I had good grades, I could take out one piece of work to look at.

I'm always on a quest to find the next best natural fiber.

There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Your clothes are worn to the woof.

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.