You may remember my visit during the summer to the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham.
You may also remember that whilst there I met Tanja, who was more-or-less the only seller of lovely vintage fabrics in that entire vast hanger stuffed to the gills with quilting paraphernalia.
However, Tanja’s main business is not selling vintage fabrics. It is selling vintage threads.
And as well as purchasing her fabrics, I coveted her thready wares muchly. I managed to resist their allure at the Festival of Quilts, but no longer…
The packaging is gorgeous to start with – original vintage cardboard boxes printed with a floral design representing the flax from which the threads are made.
But inside lies the real treasure…
Tanja’s threads are Swedish, leftover stock from the 1960s, made from the finest pure linen for heirloom stitching.
They come in a stunningly beautiful range of colours…
I thought they would be the perfect thing for embroidering doll hair, being a bit less rustic (and easier to sew with) than charity shop wools, yet deliciously unshiny (unlike embroidery floss.)
Being vintage, they are also perfectly in keeping with the rest of the dolls, which are made almost entirely from vintage materials.
And Tanja, being lovely as she is, even included some extras in my package…
You can browse all of Tanja’s lovely thready wares yourself here if you fancy doing a spot of stitchery yourself.
I’ve rattled on pretty well with the Liberty lads and lasses, so much so that I’m almost ready to start embroidering their barnets.
Meaning that yesterday’s delivery was perfectly timed.
And today is definitely going to be a good hair day. ♥
What beautiful threads – and a lovely parcel; glad the NEC visit offered such jewels!
Oooh thank you Sharon!
The cotton here is mouline’ made into bunches for embroidery kits, probably 90’s! The company’s spare stock was in the same stockroom I found, it took a while to figure out what they were, with the colour combinations and 1m cut lengths. I got the answer when buying old embroidery patterns at fleamarkets, and got hold of a bunch exactly as I had at home. I’m still looking for the owners of the company, I hope they are still around!
Oh, get started…I want to see the results!
I think I may have to swoon! X