Aki
8oz Japanese Canvas

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Description:

A slubby Japanese cotton with a red selvedge.

This would be ideal for our new Eve trousers, as well as dresses and tops that require a little structure.

118cm wide.
8oz, 270gsm.
100% cotton.
Country of origin; Japan.
This cotton is pre washed at the mill.
As all computer monitors show colours differently, we recommend ordering a sample of the cloth to check it is the right colour and weight for your project.
Thread match Gutermann Sew All 802.

Our models are wearing the Ottoline jacket, T he Miller, Eve Trousers and The Pegs (Coming Soon).

Washing Instructions

We recommend pre washing your fabric before sewing. Putting a large piece of medium-heavy weight cloth into the washing machine can sometimes lead to white creases in the fabric, this is because it is a stiff fabric so it doesn’t have room to move around. We recommend doing the following to help this not to happen:

Wash your fabric on its own for the first wash.
Sink your fabric in water before hand, letting it fully absorb, so you are putting in the cloth already wet.
If you can break up your fabric into half this will help.
For the first wash use a delicate 30 degree cycle with a low spin.
If any white creases develop ironing whilst still damp will help.
Do not tumble dry.

When you have made the garment we would recommend washing it inside out.

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Alternatives

Kojima
11oz Japanese Slub Denim

Half Panama
9oz Organic Cotton

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Organic Double Gauze – Hattie & Flo

Elwen is wearing the Hattie dress in the Dusty Grape Double Gauze, with the Bucket Hat in Toast 260. The green top is the Florence worn with Eve trousers in Aki. The buttons used for the Florence top are Cotton Pine. Elwen is wearing a size 12 in the Hattie and 10 in the Florence, she is 5.7.

As part of our sustainability switch, we have moved over our cotton double gauzes to an organic base. These double gauzes are made from 100% GOTS organic cotton and are Oeko-Tex certified.

Sewing with double gauze – a helping hand!

Double gauze consists of two layers of fine open woven cotton. They are attached together with tiny stab stitches at regular intervals, in a grid pattern. Because of the double layer there are a few things you can do when sewing to make your life a bit easier!

Stay stitch wherever possible. Stay stitching is when you machine stitch just within the seam allowance on both of your pattern pieces before sewing them together. Areas you’ll want to do this would be necklines, armholes and sleeve heads. Once stay stitched lay your cloth pieces on top of the paper pattern. Now ease up the stay stitches until the curves are the same length as the paper pattern and tie off the threads.
Use a fine sharp needle like a size 10.
Make sure your cloth is completely on grain before cutting out your pattern pieces by pulling a thread on one layer of the gauze, close to the stab stitches.
Pay good attention when pressing throughout the making process, making sure all seams are completely flat. Once your garment is completed it will look a little flat but giving it a good steam will bring those two layers back to life!
To really encourage the texture of double gauze you can tumble it to make it extra crinkly, this may make your garment feel a touch smaller, so much so, you may want to make a size up!

Pattern choices for double gauze

Double gauze lends itself to casual styles. It looks a bit undone, like something you’ve had for years and washed and washed. Don’t pick anything that needs precision like a collared shirt for example. If you want to dip your toe into sewing with double gauze we would suggest the Trapeze, Tee, 101’s or Dress Shirt. Slightly more challenging patterns would be Edie, Sunday, Florence, Camber. These aren’t particularly hard but because they have bias strips you’ll need to handle the gauze carefully.

Aki 8oz Japanese Canvas