"Doux" also means "soft," but here it seems to be a brand
name/manufacturer's label rather than a type of fabric.
Velvet is a weave. You *can* weave velvets from any fiber, though some
fibers are more attractive than others, and some velvets are
significantly more available and/or affordable than others. If you
want to make clothes, make sure you are not getting upholstery weight
velvet, which can be very heavy indeed, except maybe for a small garment
like a vest. All the linen velvet (velvet weave, linen fiber) that I
have seen has been upholstery velvet. If you find any garment weight
linen velvet, please post the source and I'll go buy some! Cotton
velvet may commonly be either garment or upholstery weight, but if it's
from a home-dec store it's probably upholstery weight. On
housefabric.com, with the velvets labeled "Flanders," "Nevada," etc.,
those are just brand names/manufacturer's labels, not standard fabric
names. When you are buying garment-weight velvet, make sure it's not a
stretch velvet unless you want stretch.
Fran
Frances Grimble
Books on making historic clothing
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On 9/13/2013 1:57 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
my steam-punker has been attracted recently by victorian velvet outfits from the
"OMG that dress" site, so he's been looking on-line at velvets.
we have hit a term we can't find a real definition for. does anyone know what is meant by "doux cotton
velvet". "doux" literally means "sweet". some of the descriptions say "100% cotton",
which indicates warp, weft and PILE all of cotton.
we have also run across descriptions of linen velvet, and mohair velvet!
both the cotton and linen velvet appear to run around $17/yard; 54-56" width --
oh, the linen is on 66% sale, usually more like $50/yd!
flanders velvet, housefabric.com, 63% cotton, currently on sale $10/54" yd...
well, enough dithering, he can pull up examples faster than I can transcribe
them, 8-)
so... doux cotton velvet, linen velvet, flanders velvet... any definitions?
thx much
chimene
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