Broderie Anglaise and Eyelet: Magic words you need when shopping, searching, buying or Selling
My Singaporean friend Yenny was wearing a wonderful red dress. She said, "It's loose and comfortable and never creases." I commented, "It's what we call broderie Anglaise, in England, usually sold white. The words are French for English embroidery. The fabric used to be cheap, folksy. But then it got hard to find and fashionable and expensive. Maybe it's getting easy to find and affordable again. Where did you get it?" Yenny replied: "I bought it in Thailand. There's lots of it there. They call it eyelet." Red eyelet dress from Shein 28 Singapore dollars. It is 65% polyester, 35% cotton. (Non-stretch.) You have to click on the word description to find out the fabric. You can read reviews. On ebay I found this: Useful Websites Background information and a couple of photos in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderie_anglaise Lots more photos in Wikimedia If you associate white broderie Anglaise (called whitework) with clothes which are old-f...