Merchant & Mills : Indigo Snow Ikat Cotton
Indigo blue and white ikat weave.
A summer weight dressmaking cotton. Suitable for breezy tops, dresses and loose fitting trousers.
Ikat is a resist dyeing technique where the threads used for weaving are dyed beforehand. The Ikat threads are bound in a pattern so that the threads covered by the binding ‘resist’ the dye, creating a design. The more binding done before weaving, the more complicated the pattern.
Some Merchant & Mills cloths are sometimes susceptible to irregularities in the weave, this is all part of their charm and are not classed as flaws.
Ikat cloths are prone to slubs and often have ties in the cloth where one weaver ends and another begins, the ties will be on the wrong side of the cloth and we will endeavour to point this out on your packing slip if we see any.
Manufacturer : Merchant & Mills
Width : 115cm wide
Content : 100% cotton
Fabric Care : - Wash at 30 degrees, with a non bio detergent on a low spin.
- For the first couple of washes, place the fabric in the washing machine drum at 30 or 40 degrees with a handful of table salt to help fix the dye to prevent it running.
Fabric is priced per metre. 1 metre = 39 inches. Minimum cut is .5 metres for garment fabrics.
Merchant & Mills
Merchant & Mills is a UK-based company celebrated for its beautifully curated range of high-quality fabrics, sewing patterns, and expertly crafted notions. Founded in Rye, East Sussex, Merchant & Mills champions a minimalist and functional approach to garment making, emphasizing timeless style and craftsmanship. Known for its thoughtfully designed patterns and sustainable fabric collections, the brand empowers makers with tools and materials to create durable, elegant, and practical clothing. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned sewist, Merchant & Mills inspires creativity with an ethos of quality and simplicity.
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Create Your Own Kona Colour Palette
CREATE YOUR OWN COLOUR PALETTES
If you love our curated Kona bundles, but want to create your own I've been building something just for you! This online tool will give you a jump start into creating a perfect colour story based on any image or screenshot you're inspired by.
Here are the key features of the Kona Colour Society tool -
- Extract a palette from any uploaded photo, or click directly on the photo to pick one exact pixel as an anchor colour and build the rest of the palette around it
- Choose how many colours are in your custom palette with a slider, from 3 to 20
- Swap any single colour, with filters for similar, same family, lighter, or darker alternatives
- Curate mode: see the wider pool of near-matches from the Kona collection and pick your own
- Skip the photo and build by hand from the "Browse Kona library" tab, searching and filtering by colour family
- Name your palette, save it, reload or delete it later from your running browser history (not currently permanent)
- See live "in-stock" status per colour, checked against the workroom's online shop.
- Get matched automatically to our existing curated bundles that overlap your palette, each linking directly to those bundles
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Printed and Inspired : Getting Ready for Cosy Season
September has arrived and the temperatures have started to cool just a little bit in the evenings.
Printed & Inspired : New Capstone Pattern Co and Syd Graham PDF Patterns
We love to watch you discover all of the PDF sewing patterns we carry at the workrorom as your orders come through for wide format printing! We started with Merchant & Mills, Closet Core Patterns and Thread Theory Designs and are working on adding more of their patterns. We are excited to expand our range of PDF patterns to include a shop favourite Capstone Pattern Co and the popular Syd Graham Patterns. We have all of the patterns currently offered by both designers available in the New & Note Worthy section - check them out!
Discovering new indie pattern designers along with you through our A0 PDF Printing Services is always a joy. Below are a few of the A0 PDF patterns we printed since the beginning of July, maybe they’ll inspire your next make too!
Genow Patterns - Lorraine Dress
Merchant & Mills - Billy Vest
Lizzy House - Cookie Party Quilt Pattern
The New Craft House - Everyday Shirt
Closet Core Patterns - Elodie Wrap Dress
Closet Core Patterns - Cielo Top + Dress
The Assembly Line - Pull On Trousers
The Assembly Line - Wrap Top
SeamWork - Natalie
Merchant & Mills - Sommer Dress
Closet Core - Charlie Caftan
Sew Liberated - Madrone Pants
All of these patterns came through our A0 PDF pattern printing service - a wonderful way to explore new designers and level up your handmade wardrobe. If you haven’t tried it yet, it’s simple to upload your files and we’ll print, fold, and ship them right to you or choose local pick up at our Parkdale Pick up Point or here in Sprucedale.