Fabric Choices

I had ordered some fabric samples from a fabric supplier. From these samples I will be able to tell which fabric I'd like best for my final garment. I've particularly looked at heavy weighted fabric as I found from working with both medium and heavy calico and medium pillow cotton that the heavy calico worked best to hold the folded form. I have looked at cotton satin heavy, viscose satin heavy, drill cotton satin, viscose cotton rib and cambric cotton heavy for white fabrics and drill cotton, cotton satin duchesse, domette cotton and coutil viscose satin (cotton backed) for black fabrics.

I was considering either the satin cotton heavy or the drill cotton. In the end I chose the satin cotton as even though there wasn't a great difference between the two I was rather fond of the feel of the fabric as it was much smoother than the drill. As there was not black satin cotton I chose the black drill cotton. I think they would be okay together as the density is very similar. I could have dyed some of the satin cotton heavy black but it would take longer to prepare and uncertain whether it would dye properly. I couldn't risk it going wrong, so it was much easier to buy black material than to prepare it myself.

I wanted to use a cotton based lining fabric as I didn't like the synthetic lining fabric I used for my samples. I did some research and found that silesia cotton is commonly used for lining.

I've ordered 3m of satin cotton heavy, 1m of black drill cotton and 2m of silesia cotton.