Dress Fabric

These simple, stylish fabrics are 100% cotton and are extremely popular with both dressmakers and crafters alike. With a soft, smooth handle and great drape this fabric is ideal for quilting, craft and clothing applications. Smooth finish 100% cotton prints in a weight perfect for both craft and clothing! It is a heavier weight than a lawn but more luxurious than your standard crafting cotton with its soft/smooth surface and 130gsm weight.

Many of our customers use it for making blouses, shirts, childrens clothes and for quilting/craft projects too. Cotton poplin is lovely to sew with and holds its shape beautifully in garments with gathers, pleats or puff sleeves for example.

This poplin meets Oeko-Tex Standard 100 standards, free samples are available. 

Linen mix fabric, suitable for dressmaking, craft, soft furnishings and lightweight curtains. Free samples available. 

This lovely lightweight, soft drape fabric is suitable for a variety of dressmaking and craft projects. The fabric handles like a viscose and has a beautiful drape so is perfect for clothes which require a floaty cloth such as dresses, skirts, blouses, kimonos and summer scarves.

Free samples available on request.

Combining the best aspects of Linen &  Viscose, this fabric is breathable, cool, easy to handle and easycare. It is ideal for clothing items such as shirts, trousers and dresses as well as beachwear and even home furnishings such as cushions.

Free Samples Available.

Needlecord corduroy fabric that can be used for a variety of dressmaking and craft projects. Cord is both durable and versatile, making it perfect for winter wardrobes.

Free samples available.

Cotton corduroy fabric that can be used for a variety of dressmaking and craft projects. Cord is both durable and versatile, making it perfect for winter wardrobes.

Free samples available.

Cotton corduroy fabric that can be used for a variety of dressmaking and craft projects. Cord is both durable and versatile, making it perfect for winter wardrobes.

Free samples available.

100% Cotton corduroy fabric that can be used for a variety of dressmaking and craft projects. Cord is both durable and versatile, making it perfect for winter wardrobes.

Free samples available.

This festive cotton is perfect for Christmas dressmaking, craft and soft furnishing makes. It could also be used for wrapping. 

Fancy making a Christmas stocking? Check out our tutorial.

Weight: 150gsm. Free samples available.

Warm, soft, washable and quick drying this antipil polar fleece is ideal for blankets, clothes and pet products as well as a variety of other projects. It meets Okeo-tex standards and is 275gsm. Free samples available 

Cotton spandex is a blend of cotton fibres and spandex to create a cotton spandex fabric with an exceptionally high stretchability, which makes it easy to wash, dry and iron. It's an ideal choise for active and outdoor wear, it's comfortable, breathable, lightweight and drapes nicely, which makes it a great choice for such a variety of garments. It also regulates your body tempurature, keeping you cool on a summers day, but also keeping the heat in and the cold out.

Free samples available.

100% Cotton corduroy fabric that can be used for a variety of dressmaking and craft projects. Cord is both durable and versatile, making it perfect for winter wardrobes. Free samples available.

These sweet 100% cotton festive designs are perfect for christmas crafts, there are lots of fun designs and they are great value. Free samples available. 

These sweet 100% cotton festive designs are perfect for christmas crafts, there are lots of fun designs and they are great value. Free samples available. 

100% cotton printed Christmas fabric, suitable for dressmaking and craft. Free samples available.

This amazing fabric is part of our latest range of vintage fabrics! These fabric are the real deal when it comes to vintage and make up the most wonderful collection. 

Bringing together the best of retro colours and designs these cottons are perfect for dresses, skirts and shirts. They'd also work great for crafting projects and would make fab accessories or home furnishings.

As with all fabrics we'd recommend pre washing this vintage lovelies, free samples available.

This jersey hangs beautifully and would be suitable for a wrap dress or skirt. It could of course also be used for t shirts and pyjamas. 

Free samples available

Stretch cotton washed denim dressmaking, craft and soft furnishing fabric. Free samples available.

100% Cotton. Flame Retardant. Suitable for dressmaking, soft drapes, wedding venue decoration, photography, voile and lining bodices.

Fire-Retardant to BS5867 Type B part 2: 1980 (1993)

Free samples available.

This recycled cotton mix from our 'Eco Range' meets the Global recycled standard. Using 100% recycled fibres this fabric is made up of 87% cotton from recycling existing fabric/garments and cutting it back to cotton fibres and 13% polyester where the fibre is created from melting down plastic bottles to make the yarn.

Per Metre this fabric recycles 4 plastic bottles into polyester fibres and saves a significant amount of water and energy by using reworked fibres.

The fabric has a textured linen look finish and is perfect for curtains and home interiors projects.

 Free Samples available if you'd like to have a feel of this cloth before purchasing!

This lovely recycled linen mix from our 'Eco Range' has so many great production features that help the fabric meet the Global recycled standard. Using 100% recycled fibres of both cotton and linen to create this cloth. 

This timless, classic 100% cotton gingham is ideal for all of your craft projects, a little as jar lid covers and as big as curtains!

OEKO-TEX STANDARD 100

135 gsm.

Free samples available.

Beautiful dress weight (105gsm) cotton fabric. Suitable for dressmaking, craft & soft furnishings. This design is exclusive to Textile Express. Free samples available. 

This stunning fluid fabric has a lovely natural finish, the high viscose content means it moves beautifully but the linen gives it a nice body and texture so that it wouldn't need lining! Its 170gsm and would be perfect for floaty culottes or dresses.

Free samples available.