Personalise your own clothing fabric with our range of hand-selected apparel material. Order custom printed clothing fabric by the yard, metre, centimetre or inch. Printed with your photos, images and text and hand made in bespoke sizes. Custom printed in the UK in our London studio with your personal design.
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No matter what you are looking for, you're bound to find the right clothing fabric by the yard or metre, just waiting for your custom design.
Browse our range of clothing fabrics
Light weight, stiff and non-stretch, silky, smooth, shiny and semi-transparent
100% polyester
Medium weight, stiff and non-stretch, silky, smooth, shiny and semi-transparent
100% polyester
Medium weight, stiff and non-stretch, waterproof, shiny and semi-transparent, smooth and non-fray
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, brushed/knapped face, fire retardant and opaque, matte and fluffy
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, matte, smooth and opaque
90% poly / 10% lycra
Medium weight, shiny and non-stretch, silky, smooth and opaque
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, smooth and matte, opaque
96% polyester 4% elastane
Light weight, shiny and non-stretch, smooth, dry and semi transparent
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, brushed/knapped face, shiny, fluffy and opaque
98% polyester 2% elastane
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, smooth, matte, brushed back and opaque
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, matte and opaque
97% polyester 3% elastane
Medium weight, smooth and stretchy, shiny, opaque and silky
85% polyester 15% elastane
Light weight, soft and stretchy, matte, mesh and semi transparent
90% polyester 10% elastane
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, loop back, matte and opaque
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, matte, opaque and loop back
80% cotton / 20% poly
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, matte, semi transparent and smooth
84% cotton / 16% poly
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, opaque, matte and smooth
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, brushed/knapped face, fire retardant, shiny, fluffy and opaque
92% poly / 8% elastane
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, matte opaque and smooth
95% polyester 5% elastane
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, matte, smooth and opaque
100% polyester
Medium weight, smooth and non-stretch, water resistant and semi transparent, matte
100% polyester
Medium weight, smooth and non-stretch, waterproof, matte and non-fray, semi transparent
100% polyester
Light weight, stiff and non-stretch, shiny, smooth and semi transparent
95% polyester 5% elastane
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, matte and opaque
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and non-stretch, durable, matte and opaque
100% Silk Reactive inks
Light weight, silky and smooth, semi transparent, matte and dry
97% polyester 3% elastane
Light weight, soft and non-stretch, shiny, silky, smooth and opaque
100% polyester
Light weight, coarse and stretchy, matte and mesh, semi transparent
100% Supima cotton Pigment Inks
Light weight, soft and non-stretch, semi transparent, matte and smooth
95% cotton 5% linen Pigment Inks
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, opaque and matte
100% cotton Pigment Inks
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, matte, semi transparent and smooth
100% polyester
Light weight, soft and non-stretch, stiff, matte and smooth, semi transparent
82% polyester 18% lycra
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, smooth opaque and matte
100% recycled polyester
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, matte, semi transparent and smooth
100% polyester
Light weight, soft and non-stretch, matte and smooth, semi transparent
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, matte, opaque and silky
100% cotton
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, matte and opaque
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and non-stretch, matte, opaque and smooth
100% polyester
Medium weight, stiff and non-stretch, matte, semi transparent and smooth
100% cotton
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, semi transparent, matte and smooth, certified organic
100% cotton Pigment Inks
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, semi transparent, matte and coarse
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, matte, opaque and
94% polyester 6% elastane
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy, opaque, matte and coarse
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and stretchy, smooth and matte, semi transparent
97% polyester 3% elastane
Medium weight, matte and stretchy, semi transparent
95% polyester 5% elastane
Medium weight, coarse and stretchy, matte and mesh
100% Silk Reactive inks
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch, opaque, matte and smooth
100% cotton
Heavy weight, soft and non-stretch, opaque and matte
100% cotton
Light weight, soft and smooth, shimmery shine.
100% polyester
Medium weight, soft and smooth with great stretch.
96% polyester 4% elastane
Medium weight, soft and knitted. Slight stretch, mesh, breathable.
100% polyester
Stiff, Matt, Opaque, Woven, Poly. Heavier Weight Canvas. Use: bags, sails, heavy canvas, upholstery, wall art.
100% polyester
Soft, light and airy. Silky smooth surface, flows and drapes beautifully. Plain weave 100% cotton lawn. Super bright colours and deep blacks, strong wash fastness, using reactive ink chemistry. Expect shrinkage 1-2% weft, 3-4% warp.
100% Supima cotton Reactive Inks
70% wool, 30% silk. Woven in Italy and finished in England. Light cream base colour, open plain weave. An airy, light, flowing, soft yet strong quality, Suitable for scarves and fashion. Expect shrinkage 5% weft, 8% warp. Super bright colours and deep blacks using reactive ink chemistry.
70% wool 30% silk
Care instruction
Wash at 30°C, low tumble dry heat, hang to dry, do not wring, low heat iron.
The properties that you look for in clothing fabric is likely to change with the item of clothing that you intend to make. The one thing that all clothing fabric needs to have in common though, is that it needs to be hard wearing enough that it can be used for clothing. Some apparel fabrics are delicate and will need extra care and attention, but even the most delicate of fabrics has got to be able to stand up to movement; bending, walking, reaching and stretching. We have selected a number of our fabrics, specifically for making clothing, and put them here for you to browse through and choose for your next custom design. With so many different properties to choose from, you are bound to find something that is just right for your dressmaking or clothing project, safe in the knowledge that it will stand up to being worn.
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It was for my uni project. Good quality product and good service.
Great product
Image quality was great. Fast posting and good comms. I have bought from before and will buy from again.
3 TIME RETURNING CUSTOMERAmazing
Absolutely loving the print
2 TIME RETURNING CUSTOMERIf you can’t decide on which photo to use, you can upload multiple images and create a photo collage. This can be done using one of our pre-set montage templates, or you can create your own entirely from scratch. It’s super easy to do and the possibilities are endless.
Smart Collage
Adjust the sizes of your photos and move them around in a smart grid.
Plain (No background)
Your photos in a grid and placed on a plain background.
Photo Frame
Your photos in a grid placed on a copy of one of the images as a background.
Scatter
Your photos cover the entire area and are placed on a layered background made up of copies of your images.
Plain Heart (No background)
Your photos in a heart shaped outline and placed on a plain background.
Frame Heart
Your photos in a heart shaped outline and placed on a copy of one of the images as a background.
Do it Yourself
Your photos are placed onto your design for you to arrange exactly as you’d like.
Step 1 – Click the start design button & select your product options.
Step 2 – Go to the ‘Images & Text Tools’ tab, click the ‘add images/Text’ button on your product & ‘Select Images to Upload’ or use the Facebook/Instagram tabs.
Step 3 – Choose the images you want to use for your collage, upload & select them from the uploaded photos list.
Step 4 – Click ‘Create montage’ & select your collage style.
Step 5 – Add the collage to your design.
When you order custom clothing fabric by the yard, it will be digitally printed, using one of our popular methods, these include pigment printing and dye sublimation. All of our methods will bond the print to the fabric, presenting your design in all its splendour.
Once your apparel fabric is printed you can choose how you would like it finishing. There are a variety of options available to you.
If you choose to have one of our seamstresses hem your apparel fabric, please allow extra fabric for hemming when you give us your bespoke measurements.
All of our fabrics are printed at 200dpi. This works for us as it combines a great quality as we as a good file weight. In order to avoid resizing and interpolation, we recommend that you scale your image to 100% at 200dpi. Our design interface works with a traffic light system that acts as a quality marker for your designs. This will show you whether the resolution is too low for printing. When you re-upload your design with a highest resolution, the traffic lights will change colour, showing you're good to go. A message will pop up alongside the traffic lights to let you know if the resolution is too low or if you have a good quality image.
Your uploaded design will automatically be scaled to fit the size of fabric you've chosen. You can change the dimensions of your fabric by amending the measurements on the ‘Product Options’ tab, under ‘Print Size’. To see how this fits with the dimensions of your image/design, you can refer to the ‘Images & Text Tools’ tab under 'Quality Information'. Here, you will be able to edit the dimensions of the image.
We always recommend using an RGB colour space when you upload your images. More specifically, we suggest using the sRGB image profile, to achieve best colour results. This will need to be done in your editing software; choose RGB as the working space, and assign the image profile as sRGB (full name sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
There is no length limit for most of our fabrics. Our preview design window is set up to displaying a maximum of 10m to help you visualise the print, but that doesn't mean this is the print limit. If you'd like to order more, you can increase the quantity (x2 for 20m or x4 for 40m for example) and order as much as you'd like. Larger volumes will receive an automatic discount too. While the fabric length is nothing to worry about, each individual fabric will have a maximum width side: These can be found on the fabric's page information or in the design interface.
Yes, that will help you when it comes to cutting or framing your printed fabric. We recommend always adding a little extra space for borders into your purchased fabric size. When we print your materials, or send out fabric samples, we typically trim squarely around the fabric, leaving approximately 5mm white space. Cutting neatly on the line has an additional fee.
Crocking is the term used to describe fading along the creases in a fabric. It typically can occur after constant washing or heavy use of digitally printed natural fabrics. Crocking can be minimised by hand washing your fabrics at a cooler temperature, rather than machine washing. If you want to make sure there's no chance of crocking, we'd suggest you use a poly fabric.
Yes, our organic fabrics don't have an additional coating like non-organic fabrics have, which means it absorbs the inks deep into its fibre and reducing the colour strength slightly (this can be approximately -40%). If you would like a bolder, more vibrant colour for your fabric, we would suggest using a non-organic fabric.
Unfortunately not; all of our fabrics have been tested meticulously to ensure we know exactly how to get the best results, and our facilities cater perfectly to them. If you are set on a fabric we don't offer, we can offer custom printed sublimation paper to order which will allow you to heat press your designs onto your own fabrics.
If your design is simple and less intricate, a JPEG will be absolutely fine. However, if you have created a design with multi-coloured detailing, we would recommend saving your design in a TIFF format.
Similar to other fabric printing processes, shrinkage can occur. The amount of shrinkage will depend on the fabric, but as a general rule of thumb, please allow for 2-8% shrinkage when working out your measurements. Shrinkage is not an exact science, and the amount of shrinkage will vary from print run to print run. We'd always suggest order a little more than you need for your project.
Many of the fabrics we offer are semi-transparent, so printing on both sides of the fabric is not a service we offer.
At the moment, all of our fabric labels are printed on satin fabric. For now, we believe this is the best choice, but will potentially introduce other options in the future. All labels are cut to the same label format. If you would like to choose a different fabric and format for your labels, you could always order a sheet of the fabric of your choice to create labels yourself.
Our fabrics are printed with water-based inks as environmental consciousness is always front of our minds. Water-based inks include no chemicals or solvents, and our printing process uses heat to fix colours and patterns into place to avoid excess or contaminated water returning into the water system (this is something that can occur through steaming). All printing, fulfilment and production is done in our one facility in London, and rather than rolling the fabrics or sending them in a tube, you will receive your material folded up. This amounts to 150 tubes saved a week, as well as much more space on the delivery van for more orders. (For delicate fabrics we ensure to package appropriately).
Although very rare, there could be a slight colour difference from one print run to another. This is a normal part of the printing process, however we are always working to improve our colour profiles. It is unlikely that the difference in print runs will be hugely different (for example, it's unlikely your orange is suddenly going to be red). The likelihood of colour variations can be intensified fabric to fabric due to materials having different grains and textures; natural fabrics typically have more muted colour tones, while poly alternatives have a bolder hue. This is because the construction of the material is different, and the printing method has to be altered slightly for more delicate, natural textiles.
Our full cut & sew service at Bags of Love can be used to your full advantage. We even offer hemming for your fabrics at a small additional cost. Our hems are created with a one or two cold hem that typically uses around 5 to 20mm of fabric (depending on the thickness of your chosen material). Please bare this in mind when you are ordering your printed fabric with hems: If you would like your finished piece to be 100cm x 100cm, change your dimensions to 101.5cm instead to allow space for your hems (you will also need to include additional for potential shrinkage). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. Your printed fabric will be hemmed with either Black or White thread. If you are ordering a lightly woven material or a printed silk, you will find that one hem will be straight, while the other slightly rippled. The hemming material allowances are as follows and you need to make your print bigger to accommodate the hem:
For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs.
Please note: As everything we provide is handmade to order, you may find a slight variance in the sizes.
