Create your own coarse material, with your personalised design printed on your chosen fabric. Coarse fabri...
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With so many uses and so many different types of coarse fabrics to choose from, you are sure to be able to find exactly what you need for your next project.
Choose from our range of different coarse fabrics
Heavy weight, stiff and non-stretch with a matte finish
100% polyester
Medium weight, stiff and non-stretch with a matte finish
100% polyester
Medium weight, stiff and non-stretch with a matte finish
100% polyester
Heavy weight, coarse and non-stretch, with a matte finish
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and non-stretch with a matte finish
100% recycled polyester
Heavy weight, stiff and non-stretch with a matte finish
100% organic cotton
Heavy weight, coarse and non-stretch with a matte finish
96% polyester 4% linen
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch with a matte finish
100% cotton
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch with a matte finish
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and stretchy with a matte finish
94% polyester 6% elastane
Medium weight, coarse and stretchy with a matte finish
95% polyester 5% elastane
Stiff, Matt, Opaque, Woven, Poly. Heavier Weight Canvas. Use: bags, sails, heavy canvas, upholstery, wall art.
100% polyester
Care instructions
Wash at 30°C, low tumble dry heat, hang to dry, do not wring, low heat iron.
Coarse fabrics are those which lack delicacy of texture or structure. The fabrics themselves aren't fine. A common assumption is that coarse fabrics are all rough to the touch, or stiff, however this is not the case. Some textiles, such as our Gaia Eco Woven 100% Recycled fabric or our Cotton Calico are actually soft fabrics. These are ideal for making clothes and other garments. Some coarse fabrics are quite stiff, some are stretchy like our Scuba Crepe, while others are not. You can choose from light weight, mid weight or even heavy weight coarse fabrics.
When you use our design tool to create your custom prints for your coarse material you can opt to have it sent to you in one of a few ways.
As is - we'll send your material as it comes with a white border around the edge of your print, so that you can cut it how you want to when you receive it.
Cut on The Line - this will leave no white edges at all. One of our experts will cut your fabric, on the line of the print for you, before sending.
Hemmed - You can choose from two different types of hemming, and you can also choose the colour of the thread (black or white) that is used for the hem.
Overlocked - Stitches completely over the edges of your fabric
Baby hem - Either a single fold or two fold hem, which is stitched with a straight stitch. Ensure you take account the fabric which will be used for the hem when you select your coarse material size.
Light fabrics - 2 fold hem which will take up 6-8 mm, totalling 12-16 mm for all edges
We print at 200dpi, which is a good combination of quality and file weight. Ideally, your image should be scaled to 100% at 200dpi; this means that no resizing of your file occurs, preventing any interpolation. Our design interface will have a quality marker next to the design that you have uploaded, this will change colour using a traffic light system and display a message. The message will let you know if the resolution is too low or if you have a good quality image.
When you upload your design our system will automatically scale it to fit your chosen fabric dimensions. In the ‘Product Options’ tab, the displayed dimensions under ‘Print Size’ will show the dimensions of the piece of fabric that you are ordering. For image/design dimensions you need to see the ‘Images & Text Tools’ tab. You can see and edit the dimensions of the image under the quality information next to the thumbnail.
We advise providing images in the RGB colour space. Specifically using the sRGB image profile, to achieve best colour results. What does this mean? In your editing software choose RGB as the working space, and assign the image profile as sRGB (full name sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
For most of our fabrics, there is no limit on the length of the fabric that you can order. We have a preview design window set up to 10m max to visualise the print, but that's not a print limit. If you'd like to order more, increase the quantity (x2 for 20m or x4 for 40m for example) and then you can order as much as you'd like, with a built-in automatic volume discount too. The maximum print width of each fabric can be found on the individual fabric pages or in our design interface.
Yes, that might help you! Always incorporate any extra space or boarders into your purchased fabric size. We trim squarely around fabric samples and fabric prints, leaving approximately 5mm white space. Cutting neatly on the line has an additional fee.
Crocking, which is fading along the creases, often after washing or heavy use, occurs when you digitally print on natural fabrics - more so when dark or dense colours are used. It can be minimised by using a cool hand wash instead of machine washing as the tumbling of the machine is the main cause of this. To avoid entirely, we would advise using a poly fabric.
Our organic fabrics do not have any coatings that the non-organic fabrics have. This means the ink absorbs into the fibres, reducing the colour strength slightly (by approx. -40%). For super strong colours we recommend a non-organic natural fabric.
Unfortunately not; we like to test meticulously so that we know what gets best results on our fabrics, and our facilities cater perfectly to them. We do however print sublimation paper to order, and if you have access to a heat press you can press your own fabrics easily.
For multi-coloured or very detailed files we recommend using a tiff format, but they must be flattened. For simple colours and low detail files, a jpeg is fine.
Just like many fabric printing processes, there is the potential for shrinkage. Depending on the fabric, please expect and allow between 2-8% shrinkage which you need to plan for in your dimensions. This percentage can vary from print run to print run and between fabrics, so we would advise ordering a little more material than you require for your project.
We do not offer to print on both sides of the fabric. A lot of our fabrics are semi-transparent or have some show through and this wouldn't work with double-sided printing. This is not a service that we offer on any of our fabrics.
At the moment no, our labels are all printed on the same satin fabric. We may introduce more in the future, but for now, this is the best choice. The labels are all cut the same way. You can order the fabric of your choice and make the labels yourself, but we do not cut different fabric into label format.
With environmental consciousness in mind, our fabrics are all printed using completely water-based inks. This means no chemicals or solvents are used. Our heat fixing procedure fixes the colours and prints, avoiding the downsides of steaming, such as excess or contaminated water returning into the waste system. We have one facility in London where we conduct all the printing, production and fulfilment. Rather than roll the fabrics, or send them in a tube, we fold them before they are sent out to you. This saves over 150 tubes a week, as well as a lot of space on the delivery van. (For delicate fabrics we ensure to package appropriately).
We work at improving our colour profiles all the time. Though rare it may happen that from one print run to another, and there could be slight colour differences, this is normal and part of the process when we are constantly improving. It is extremely unlikely that there will be a huge difference (like orange instead of red for example). Please bear in mind such colour variations can be intensified from fabric to fabric due to the varying grains and textures of the fabric; natural fabrics tend to have more muted colours than their poly alternatives. This is due to the construction of the materials as well as the print methods that have to be altered slightly for more delicate, natural textiles.
We have a full Cut & Sew service here at Bags of Love, and are able to hem your fabric prints for a small additional charge. We create a small one- or two-fold hem that typically uses 5 to 20mm of material, depending on the thickness of the fabric. So, for example, if you want a finished piece of fabric that measures 100 x 100cm, you will need to order a size of 101.5cm x 101.5cm to allow for the hem (on top of that please also allow for shrinkage of min 2%). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. You can choose to have your prints hemmed with either Black or White thread. On our silk and other light woven fabrics, one hemmed edge will be straight (vertically down the roll) and the other will be 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.
