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Posted by Donna Gennick on October 8, 2009, 10:20 pm
I found a nice length of suiting fabric (a little over 3 yards at 60"
wide) at my local second-hand shop for a very low price. Stamped on the
wrong side near the selvedge is an indistinct logo inside an oval with
the word "Galashiels". A little Googling revealed that Galashiels is a
town in Scotland, and they do have a school of textiles and design
there. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about fabrics with this
type of logo on it. Did it come from this school? Is there a shop in
Galashiels that routinely stamps their logo on fabrics purchased there?
I've done a burn test on the fabric and think it may be rayon. The
results were a little inconclusive, but the burned fabric smells a lot
like burned wood, and since rayon is a wood product, that seems reasonable.
How this fabric turned up in a Michigan second-hand store will forever
be a mystery, but can anyone enlighten me about it's possible source?
I'm just curious about its history. Thank you.
Donna G.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on October 9, 2009, 3:44 am
Donna Gennick wrote:
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> I found a nice length of suiting fabric (a little over 3 yards at 60"
> wide) at my local second-hand shop for a very low price. Stamped on the
> wrong side near the selvedge is an indistinct logo inside an oval with
> the word "Galashiels". A little Googling revealed that Galashiels is a
> town in Scotland, and they do have a school of textiles and design
> there. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about fabrics with this
> type of logo on it. Did it come from this school? Is there a shop in
> Galashiels that routinely stamps their logo on fabrics purchased there?
>
> I've done a burn test on the fabric and think it may be rayon. The
> results were a little inconclusive, but the burned fabric smells a lot
> like burned wood, and since rayon is a wood product, that seems reasonable.
>
> How this fabric turned up in a Michigan second-hand store will forever
> be a mystery, but can anyone enlighten me about it's possible source?
> I'm just curious about its history. Thank you.
>
> Donna G.
> Michigan's Upper Peninsula
It won't be the shop, it'll be the weavers who have labeled the fabric.
The school itself probably gets local weavers to weave the bits that
the students design. It may be part of a test weave: quite often the
designers and weavers will set up and do a short run (15m or so) of a
new design to sell to the prospective customers. If these bits are not
taken up by the buyers of yardage for people like Marks & Spencer,
Dacks, Next, etc. they just sell off the yardage in 3m dress lengths in
the factory shop. Your bit may well have been taken home as a suvenir
from a holiday. The visitors often like to buy a bit of something
unique like this. I've done it myself: made a fantastic jacket out of
it that always got loads of admiration and was unique. :)
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Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
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Posted by Donna Gennick on October 9, 2009, 3:55 pm
Thanks, Kate. I wondered if you would know. Thank you for sharing.
Donna G.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Kate XXXXXX wrote:
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> Donna Gennick wrote:
>> I found a nice length of suiting fabric (a little over 3 yards at 60"
>> wide) at my local second-hand shop for a very low price. Stamped on
>> the wrong side near the selvedge is an indistinct logo inside an oval
>> with the word "Galashiels". A little Googling revealed that
>> Galashiels is a town in Scotland, and they do have a school of
>> textiles and design there. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything
>> about fabrics with this type of logo on it. Did it come from this
>> school? Is there a shop in Galashiels that routinely stamps their
>> logo on fabrics purchased there?
>> I've done a burn test on the fabric and think it may be rayon. The
>> results were a little inconclusive, but the burned fabric smells a lot
>> like burned wood, and since rayon is a wood product, that seems
>> reasonable.
>> How this fabric turned up in a Michigan second-hand store will forever
>> be a mystery, but can anyone enlighten me about it's possible source?
>> I'm just curious about its history. Thank you.
>> Donna G.
>> Michigan's Upper Peninsula
>
> It won't be the shop, it'll be the weavers who have labeled the fabric.
> The school itself probably gets local weavers to weave the bits that
> the students design. It may be part of a test weave: quite often the
> designers and weavers will set up and do a short run (15m or so) of a
> new design to sell to the prospective customers. If these bits are not
> taken up by the buyers of yardage for people like Marks & Spencer,
> Dacks, Next, etc. they just sell off the yardage in 3m dress lengths in
> the factory shop. Your bit may well have been taken home as a suvenir
> from a holiday. The visitors often like to buy a bit of something
> unique like this. I've done it myself: made a fantastic jacket out of
> it that always got loads of admiration and was unique. :)
>
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> wide) at my local second-hand shop for a very low price. Stamped on the
> wrong side near the selvedge is an indistinct logo inside an oval with
> the word "Galashiels". A little Googling revealed that Galashiels is a
> town in Scotland, and they do have a school of textiles and design
> there. I'm wondering if anyone knows anything about fabrics with this
> type of logo on it. Did it come from this school? Is there a shop in
> Galashiels that routinely stamps their logo on fabrics purchased there?
>
> I've done a burn test on the fabric and think it may be rayon. The
> results were a little inconclusive, but the burned fabric smells a lot
> like burned wood, and since rayon is a wood product, that seems reasonable.
>
> How this fabric turned up in a Michigan second-hand store will forever
> be a mystery, but can anyone enlighten me about it's possible source?
> I'm just curious about its history. Thank you.
>
> Donna G.
> Michigan's Upper Peninsula