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Often referred to as ‘filling’ yarns, weft yarns are the yarns, which run across the fabric’s width. Weft yarn literally fills up spaces and are comparably weaker to wrap yarns. Weft yarns can create a ‘give ’ across the distance across the fabric, for this reason it is important to take into consideration weft’s tendency to ‘give’ when positioning a pattern on fabric.

Epaulette is a decorative piece, which is placed on the shoulder of a garment such as a blouse, dress, or jacket. Epaulette is most often seen on royal or military clothing.

After being in this business for over 20 years this question has been asked 1,000's of times. My answer: purchase the one you like best. Why do I say that? We have had people that hate canisters and their next door neighbor has a canister so they purchase a canister. Then they tell us that they hate their vacuum. Well of course they do they only bought the style of vacuum that their neighbor had not the one they liked. No vacuum is any good if it sits in your closet and does not get used. So pur …

Wearable art is a decorative typically quilted, type of clothing created to be beautiful, functional, and unique.

A Tack is a temporary stitch, which is created to help keep pieces together, and is typically remove after final stitching. Often Bar Tacks are used when creating buttonholes. Tacking is a also another word for the method of starting a seam then reversing the seam a few times to stabilize the seam.