What is crewel fabric?

Crewel fabric is a hand-crocheted embroidery fabric. The embrodery is done using a woolen yarn on a cotton, silk, velvet, linen or jute ground fabric. Crewel work fabrics are mainly used for drapery and upholstery. Other uses include making bedspreads, pillows and throws

Crewel fabric may be used to cover chairs or sofas and even made into table runners. All our fabrics in cotton and cotton-velvet are Upholstery grade. Crewel fabric finds use in making apparels also.Colors add to the variety of crewel fabric; besides white, you may find black, navy, maroon, cream, beige and other background colors used. Embroidery may be single color, 3 shades of one color or a range of colors (multicolor). Embroidery yarn is mostly wool; either 1-ply or 2-ply.

2-ply wool embroidery is costlier than 1-ply but provides a better finish as it is finer of the two and covers lesser surface per stitch. ArtSilk (synthetic silk) is also employed sometimes for embroidery yarn.

Prices of crewel fabrics may start around 20 US Dollars per yard with no possible guess on a maximum, depending on the fabric, amount of embroidery work and type of embroidery yarn (1 or 2-ply). Crewel Fabric is available in many widths with 52 inches being the most common. Length is 20 to 35 yards per bolt.

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