The enchanted cottage is home to over 80 shades of the finest Thai Princess Silk Dupion, 20 shades of beautiful silk tulle and a huge range of silk organza, silk chiffon, devore and smooth silk velvet, silk georgette and textured silks. As well as a large range of lace edging from 1/4in wide to 8in wide, I have some really stunning French Metallic Lace in gold and silver, a double edged fine ivory Chantilly lace and beaded and corded lace. You will be spoiled for choice.

Now in 20 colours:   175cm wide white, ivory, rich cream, gold, French mustard, cappuccino, chocolate, glacier, (pale blue) aqua, verdi gris (bottle green) navy, brides blush (pale pink) coral, rose, red, wine, black, purple, old lavender and antique lilac which is a dark and dusky shade almost a ‘tawny lilac’ but a very beautiful colour I hasten to add.

1/32 (25 x 22 cm) £1.75; 1/16 (25 x 43cm) £3.10 1/8 (25 x 87cm) £5.95; fat ¼ (50 x 87cm) £11.75

½ m (50 x 175cm) £22.25; 1m (100 x 175cm) £44.00

To make my bridal gowns and ballerinas you will need a full width strip of the silk tulle fabric in one of the four sizes below. I am cutting these strips accordingly to help you make up the gowns. If there is a different size you need from these listed, please give me a call and I’ll try to supply your tulle in as economical a size as possible.

10cm or 4in x 175cm £4.60; 15cm or 6in x 175cm £6.75

20cm or 8in x 175cm £9.00; 33cm or 13in x 175cm £15.00

Following the publishing of the wedding book in which I use the most beautiful and versatile silver and gold laces and which I have used extensively for my bears for the past 10 years or more as well as real dresses, you can imagine how distraught I was to find they were being discontinued. However after much pleading, begging and I can’t tell you what else on my behalf and miniaturists everywhere, by my wonderful supplier Margaret, the makers at last went back into production. I can’t tell you what a relief it was. So, here they are in all their beauty, you’ll wondered how you managed without them. But frst, here are a few examples of my work with this fabulous lace.

Here on Ice Princess, the tulle on the narrow lace is again trimmed away to form a beautiful and natural neckline for the bodice without any further hand embroidery. I then sprinkled the lace at the front of the bodice neckline with a peppering of tiny Swarovski crystals. Further trimmed lace was used to trim the hemline and around the lower edge of the bodice and as a base for her tiara.

The Rosetta Lace

T13a, the narrowest is the width I trim for around necklines and hemlines.

T13b and c is suitable for hemlines.

T13d is the width I use for full length aprons such as the one on Elloise above.

The new supply will also include a double edged lace T13e a beautiful 10in wide lace
T13 f and an all over lace T13 g.