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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  • Five homespuns from Diamond Textiles in two grays and three blacks. Great for wool applique backgrounds!
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    $15.75
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  • Dark Charcoal Homespun cotton fabric with charcoal gray background with lighter gray stripe from Diamond Textiles
    $5.00
    $5.00
    $12.10
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    $5.00
    $9.50
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  • Black with gray mottling hand dyed cotton/linen fabric.
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  • Mottled hand dyed cotton fat quarter in shades of light to medium dark blue.
    $4.50
    $4.50
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  • Four pieces of hand dyed cotton in a soft dusky blue.
    $4.50
    $4.50
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    $4.50
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  • Mottled hand dyed cotton fabrics in robin egg blue.
    $4.50
    $4.50
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  • Hand dyed cotton fat quarter pieces of a slightly mottled, medium light blue.
    $4.50
    $4.50
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    $6.00
    $12.10
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  • Hand Dyed Essex Linen in a dark bronze color with mottling.
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    from $5.00
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