How would you describe your design style? Do you love all things vintage? Do you collect folk art and antique quilts? When you refinish a piece of furniture, do you give it a shabby chic treatment? Or, do you just clean off and leave furniture you find at antique stores, auctions, and flea markets in its rustic glory? If you answered “yes” to most of these questions, you probably also make quilts with primitive fabrics.

If you are looking for fabrics in the palette of natural dyes, Missouri Star has options for your quilting and sewing projects. For example, Woolies Flannel is a favorite vintage fabric among our customers. Woolies Flannel is available as precut fabric–including primitive fabric strips–in colorways such as Desert Sunset, Holiday Warmth, Stormy Seas, and Neutrals. We also offer Woolies Flannel as primitive fabric by the yard. Woolies Flannel is beloved among quilters because it is soft and warm, comes in a wide range of gorgeous colors, and features many prints that add texture, depth, and interest.

The history of homespun goes waaaay back. As the name implies–it was originally woven at home. Although it is manufactured by machines now, we tend to think of homespun as a primitive fabric. The patterns of homespun–always a variety of stripe, check, or plaid–are woven into the fabric. Most of the cotton yarns used to weave homespun are dyed in natural colors. If you are looking for shabby chic fabric, you might take a look at our homespun.

Kim Diehl has designed a fabric collection called Butter Churn Basics for Henry Glass that includes primitive fabric precuts and shabby chic fabric by the yard. These fabrics are beautiful. The colors in the collection range from ivory to pale yellow to brown butter. The prints feature paisleys, florals, leaves and berries, pinwheels, starfish shapes, stripes, and geometrics. Butter Churn Basics have an elegant, antique charm.

You might like folk art print fabric featuring characters such as cats or honeybees. We have a folk art fabric collection–including a folk art fabric panel–that might be just your thing. Or maybe you might prefer primitive quilt fabric in shades of gray–the Urban Farmhouse Gatherings II collection. If you are looking for primitive fabric, please take a look at the products we offer at Missouri Star. We are working hard to bring you the best fabrics available in a market that changes several times each year. So, check back to see what’s new!