What's shirting?

I know that shirting is fabric but I have no idea what is it made of. Is it cotton? Does it come in different weights? Thanks for any help

Marlene in N.E. Ohio

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Marlene McCray
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It can be cotton or poly cotton, or viscose, or silk... :) It just means it was woven to make shirts out of. Naturally, you do not HAVE to make it into shirts! 100% cotton shirting may be very nice for quilt backing: it usually comes wider than quilt cotton.

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Kate Dicey

If you are thinking of making a reproduction quilt from the 1800's shirting is the type of prints men's shirts were made from at that time. The background is light (usually white or cream) and the print is tiny and usually only one color. Often a shirting is cream with medium brown prints or white or off white with navy print. If using shirtings in a quilt use 100% cotton.

Susan Price

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Pat in Virginia

Kate Dicey wrote in news:44dbab60$0 $18106$ snipped-for-privacy@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net:

There is a shop in town that custom makes men's shirts. The woman who runs it gave a me a box of the samples/swatches! Most are 100% cotton, some are cotton blend & some are all polyester, shiny & horrible! I can't imagine a shirt made of them.

It's like a bonanaza!

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mini Mini

There's a perfectly delightful fabric available here known as Swiss shirting, most often woven stripes. It's a little lighter than LQS cottons, more like Liberty's Tana lawn in weight. (Somehow I didn't picture men in the 1800s wearing printed shirts.) Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

The print is very small and geometric. That is what separates shirtings from other cottons of the period. Women also wore them with blouses made from them with dark skirts.

Susan

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Susan Laity Price

The store where I teach specializes in reproduction fabrics and has an entire shelf of shirtings. Their web site will be upgraded in the next month so you can place orders on-line. I plan to post the web site when it is upgraded. Hope members of the group aren't upset. I just want them to see the neat place I teach and how fortunate I am that this store is 10 minutes from my house.

Susan

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Susan Laity Price

Howdy!

Judie Rothermel did an extensive line of shirting fabric.

Here's some you can get now, Pat! mid-page:

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Ragmop/Sandy

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Sandy Ellison

I recently met a friend's husband who was wearing a very pretty Liberty print shirt in the same design as the one DD had a party dress inwhen she was about 6! I still have some of the fabric ready to use someday - white background, green leaves and tiny red and yellow flowers - really sweet).

It looked rather strange on a swathy 50+ year old man - I had great difficulty is keeping a straight face.

-- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)

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