Collection: Cottons, Homespuns & Linens for Hand Stitching Backgrounds

Cotton and linen fabrics perfect for wool and cotton applique, hand embroidery and all hand stitching,  backgrounds and backings!  Or for piecing quilts!

Our linen is hand dyed Essex Linen and is not an even weave linen for counted cross stitch work. 

All our hand dyed cotton and linens have a wonderful mottled look giving you depth for your backgrounds or applique pieces.  Some are subtle and others are heavily mottled for different looks.

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  • Black & Grey Primitive Fabric Bundle Diamond Textiles
    Five homespuns from Diamond Textiles in two grays and three blacks.  Great for wool applique backgrounds!
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  • Black & Grey Primitive Fabric Diamond Textiles 641
    Dark Charcoal Homespun cotton fabric with charcoal gray background with lighter gray stripe from Diamond Textiles
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  • Black Batik With Green and Blue Flowers & Vines Batik Textiles
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  • Black Hand Dyed Linen
    Black with gray mottling hand dyed cotton/linen fabric.
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  • Blue Denim Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
    Mottled hand dyed cotton fat quarter in shades of light to medium dark blue.
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  • Blue Dusky Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
    Four pieces of hand dyed cotton in a soft dusky blue.
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  • Blue Midnight Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
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  • Blue Purple Lapis Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
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  • Blue Robin Eggs Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
    Mottled hand dyed cotton fabrics in robin egg blue.
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  • Blue Sky Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
    Hand dyed cotton fat quarter pieces of a slightly mottled, medium light blue.
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  • Blue Woven Homespun Chats 2717 Diamond Textiles
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  • Bronze Dark Hand Dyed Linen
    Hand Dyed Essex Linen in a dark bronze color with mottling.
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