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Shop Local & Help Small Businesses Thrive

When you shop local, you buy from a local producer or supplier who specialises in something, whether it’s baked goods, a speciality food or clothing...

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Silk Fabrics Guide: All About Silk Fabric

Of course, the Chinese have a romantic legend attached to silk production: they believe that weaving silk cloth was invented by the wife of the...

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Digital Textiles in Fashion & Digital Fabric Design

For centuries, the textile industry has helped designers bring their creative ideas to life. Today, this exciting industry continues to innovate, and textiles have become...

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Leather Alternatives in 2025: Plant-Based Leather

Unlike real leather, which has the highest environmental impact among all materials used in the fashion industry, most plant-based leather materials have a comparatively good...

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The Importance of Biodegradable Textiles as Eco-Friendly Fabric

If we strive for anything in 2025, let it be towards sustainability. And while we consider the importance of going green, we should strive for...

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Sustainable Fabric Dyeing & Textile Innovations 2025

Sustainable isn’t a buzzword, it’s a necessity so that fashion garments stop polluting our landfills, rivers and oceans. The less water and chemicals used to...

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Fabric Sustainability: Future Trends for Sustainable Synthetics

We’ve compiled a handy go-to guide covering everything happening in the textile industry right now, from new textiles being created to fabulous designs on fabric,...

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Sustainable Textiles: The 6 rs of Sustainability

In textile manufacture and design, sustainability involves producing fabrics in an environmentally friendly way. This means using less water and energy. It also means using fewer...

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Sustainability: The Future of Sustainable Fashion

We all know about fast fashion and its detrimental effect on our planet. (Check out our guide to The Problem With Fast Fashion and how it’s damaging...

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Fabrics: How to use Deadstock Fabric Sustainably With maake

We provide free 1 or 2.5 kg upcycling bags of plain deadstock fabric offcuts. You can pick these up for free from our factory to save...

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Dressmaking fabrics inspiration: The best winter dress fabric

There are several warm fabrics you can consider for making a dress. We give you a list of the best, including some of our fabulous...

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Take your pick of our fabrics! Timeless floral fabric to choose right now

Throughout the ages, flowers have had different meanings for different cultures. Originally a symbol of femininity, floral fabric is now used for clothing for men,...

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