Applications for Fancy Yarns-Homewares

Applications for Fancy Yarns:

Homewares:

Upholstery and home furnishings have offered a relatively new field to spinners of fancy yarns over the past 20 years. The now surprisingly long-lived trend for ‘shabby chic’ furnishing fabrics favors the use of fabrics involving fancy yarns, because the inherently uneven surface of a fancy yarn is enhanced when it is woven or knitted into a fabric, giving that fabric itself a broken surface. In addition to drapes and upholstery – which are expected to have a certain durability – fancy yarns have been used lavishly in accessories such as cushions and throws. Furthermore, as textural details have become an important part of interior design, an additional application for all fancy yarns has been found in making tassels and braids for furnishings and drapes.