By House/Collection

Benartex

Based in New York, Benartex state 'Our goal is to provide a large selection of beautiful, fine quality cotton prints to the creative women and men who design and make quilts, crafts, wearable art and home decorating items'. This fabric house is home to a number of well known designers and is responsible for the creation of a number of fun and traditional designs including 'Paris Cats'.

Blank Textiles

New York based Blank Textiles produces a versatile blender in their Splash collection, producing a rainbow of colours for the quilter in search of that particular complementary fabric. Designers from Maine to Tennessee to California contribute to this fabric house reflecting the colours and images of this country.  

Classic Cottons

Celebrating over twenty five years of top design and manufacture, Classic Cottons aim is to inspire creativity not only for the quilter today, but to encourage future generations to continue the quilters art. From its in house designer studio based in New York this leading American quilting designer and manufacturer provides enthusiasts with a wide range of inspiration. The quilter can imagine and create both traditional and modern themes with Classic Cottons traditional floral or naïve prints mixing with their complimentary and small print blenders. To this end Classic Cottons website also provides free downloadable quilt projects through its 'Exclusively Quilters Collection'.

Free Spirit

Free Spirit is one of the brands of quilting fabric supplied through Westminster Fibers. Westminster was established in a contemporary decorative art gallery in Boston in 1985. Free Spirit is known for its innovative fabric designs, its collections ranging from fun prints to bold floral and stripe designs to soft vintage prints. Free Spirit states, 'Our commitment to you is the most innovative quilt fabric designs by the top names in the industry'. Designers under the Free Spirit name include Heather Ross who created the delightful 'West Hill' collection and Tanya Whelan creator of the classic 'Barefoot Roses' collection.

Hoffman Fabrics

Quilters and sewers come to Hoffman Fabrics for the best in original screenprints and hand-dyed batiks and handpaints. As a wholesale converter of the highest-quality cotton and blends, Hoffman annually designs and creates more than 800 innovative screenprinted fabrics and unique hand-dyed and hand-painted batik fabrics.   Hoffman Fabrics produces signature collections by McKenna Ryan,  Letitia Hutchings and Susan Rooney. Entering its 85th year in business in 2009, Hoffman Fabrics maintains its place as “the finest and the favorite” of quilters and sewers throughout the United States and internationally.

Island Batiks

With bright colours and stunning designs, these fabrics from Island Batiks are simply gorgeous. There are stripes which aren't like any ordinary stripe, spots that aren't like any ordinary spots and much, much more. If you like batiks you must check out this range. You then can't fail to find something to add to your stash.

Kona Bay

Fabric converter and importer Kona Bay is based in Honolulu. Kona Bay produce what can easily be described as rich and sumptuous Japanese designs with collections in the emotive names of Yasuko, Susuko, Sukuro and Nishiki collections to name but a few - a must for quilters who wish to be inspired by the colours of the Far East. Other collections reflect the bright Pacific colours of Honolulu itself, whilst the Seattle Collection is full of soft pastel designs of nature through the seasons. The Kona Bay website also provides free quilting patterns and for those who might fancy a break from the sewing needle they produce free knitting patterns too.

Leanne's House

Lecien

Lecien is a long established fabric company founded in 1933. Originally named Nomura Syouten, it changed its name to the well-known Lecien in 1992. Based in Japan, Lecien is a supplier of a wide range of fabrics from ladies wear, to lace. In 1979 the company expanded its remit to patchwork quilting fabric. The fabrics from Lecien are simply beautiful. They have a level of quality and feel that will not only lend themselves to a wide variety of patchwork projects, but also to the creation of heirloom pieces. Examples of the fabric collections from this company include the Mrs March collections, which incorporate rich colours with a distinctive antique look and the Durham Quilt collection, which Lecien itself perfectly describes as 'Simple but elegant beautiful roses on fabric'.

Makower Fabrics

Makower design and print top-quality 100% cotton fabric for quilters. The majority of their fabrics are designed from their studios in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Well known for their lovely and often unique ranges, they also create a good treasury of basic textured blenders. Here you will find some collections of animal novelty prints perfect for children as well as some lovely summery prints which will suit babies or young girls.

Maywood Studios

With bases in Oregon and California Maywood Studios is a division of E. E. Schenck. Formed in 1995 Maywood Studios specialises in creating an ever-changing range of themes. Sometimes traditional, sometimes contemporary, always beautifully surprising.

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Michael Miller

Established by Michael Steiner and Kathy Miller in 1999, Michael Miller Fabrics is a partnership of creativity set in New York. From traditional American quilting patterns the company takes you through the world of nature and childhood in the west to the Far East with its Japanese and Asian themes. Whilst having some regular well established patterns Michael Miller Fabrics regularly discontinues patterns to allow for new themes and ideas to be presented to the quilting enthusiast. The Michael Miller website also provides the quilter with free quilting pattern downloads to whet the appetite.

Moda

Since 1975, this company based in Dallas, Texas has manufactured and distributed multi-lined fabrics, notions and finished products. The company encompasses 'Moda Fabrics', 'Moda Home' and 'United Notions'. They state their commitment to being innovative and creative market leaders. Here can be found fabric for quilting and interior sewing. The website shows Moda embracing all aspects of needlework art for the home along with gifts for family and friends. The company's range of fabrics for the quilter includes a wide selection of traditional, seasonal and American nostalgic designs, Bali and Kota Batiks and Japanese prints. This medley of imagination and ideas comes from both in-house and independent designers including, American Jane, Amy Bradley, April Cornell, Arrin Turnmire, Barbara Brackman, Deb Strain and Holly Taylor.

Princess Mirah

Established in 1981, this Indonesian based wholesaler is the home of beautiful and vibrant handmade fabrics. As owner and designer, Princess Mirah designs traditional batiks with a modern flavour exclusively for Bali Fabrics. The designs reflect the history and surroundings of the Balinese people. Primarily Batiks have stamped designs. However, Princess Mirah has also created what she names 'Polos' which is a Balinese word meaning 'without pattern'. Polos are created by the use of a wide range of colours to produce a multi-faceted look. The process of production is intensive from Princess Mirah herself in creating up to 12 designs a year to the actual manufacture of the fabric. The labour intensive production can require a fabric to be dyed up to fourteen times. The end result is a soft, reversible pattern which is unique.

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Quilter's Cloth

Well that's us of course, but we don't have our own range of fabrics, well not just yet, but one thing we do is to create a variety of fabric packs which are designed to inspire you and more often than not save you money, so make sure you take a look.

Red Rooster

Robert Kaufman

Since 1942 Robert Kaufman Fabrics - converter of quality fabrics - has been supplying the fabric industry with a wide range of materials. Primarily a supplier to the fashion industry it was in the mid 1970s that 100% cotton prints were introduced to the company. By the 1980s Robert Kaufman had moved its focus to the quilters' art. The Kaufman website provides free downloads of patterns for quilters. Today the company has in-house quilting and manufacturing studios as well as employing signature artists to supply the company with innovative and exclusive design collections. Robert Kaufman quilting fabrics embraces a wide diversity of designs. Along with basic blenders and textures, stand the traditional and novelty prints, the rich 'Artisan Batiks' and the opulent Japanese 'Imperial Collection'.

Rowan

Rowan fabrics can be many different things - big, bold and flashy or soft and sweet; useful, unusual and always individual. With the likes of Kaffe Fassett, Amy Butler and Carla Miller designing for them you will always find something inspiring in this section. You can put over 20 Rowan fabrics together in a quilt and be guaranteed something special at the end. Really all you need to do is to decide on a vague colour scheme (and it can be as vague as 'bright'), select as many fabrics as you can find that fit your scheme and then put them together. Be brave, check out this section and have a go!

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Timeless Treasures

Based in New York and established for over 35 years, Timeless Treasures Incorporated produces 100% cotton fabric for the quilting, craft and dressmaking enthusiast. Timeless Treasures is also based in Europe with its British outlet in Buckinghamshire. For the quilter, their website provides free downloadable patterns. Timeless Treasures produce and supply a diverse range of designs for the quilter. From florals to novelty prints for both adults and children. They are particularly noted for their 'Tonga Batiks' which inspire notions of balmy days in the East and 'Marble Mania' a range of blenders to help the quilter find that complementary fabric for their design. As well as in-house designers, Timeless Treasures also produces fabric from quilting artists, Patrick Lose, creator of Marble Mania, Dan Morris, Helen Weimer, Karen Montegomery and Patricia Campbell, noted for her adaptations of 17th Century embroidery creations.

Tonga Batiks

Tonga Batiks are supplied by Timeless Treasures and include some of our favourite batiks. If you like batiks full of not just colour but character as well then check out this collection. You will find some of the best batiks for a seasonal flavour, from autumnal leaves to sea themed prints. There are deep moody industrial designs and soft feathery pastel ones, something for everyone

Windham Fabrics

A division of Baum Textiles, Windham fabrics is well known for its authentic reproduction of antique fabrics. Working extensively with quilt historians, industry experts, an in-house design studio, and well-known designers from all around the world, Windham Fabrics has become a leader in the marketplace. Windham also offers florals, textures, retro and many other fabric collections.