Liberty fabrics are international leaders in the design and floral and patterned cotton. Tana Lawn is 100% cotton and loved by quilters and dress-makers for it's lightweight, high-quality feel and quintessential English prints. Liberty Tana Lawn fabric has a supreme print quality and striking colour vibrancy.
Liberty design and produce a wide range of fabrics from classic cotton Tana Lawn, silk, linen, jersey, corduroy and more with a Classic range of prints readily available and seasonal collections in limited edition runs each season. Liberty Fabrics have been designing and manufacturing fabrics since 1875 and have been at the forefront of cutting-edge design and decorative arts since their beginnings.
Liberty fabrics are a heritage brand and their archive of prints are a national treasure. The dedicated in-house design studio located at the iconic Regent Street shop in London, is still at the core of all they do; hand painting and creating beautiful prints, and reworking finds from the 45,000-strong archive.
Liberty operate their own factory in Italy and ensure the highest quality digital printing, to achieve similar qualities with that of with screen printing, one of them being the penetration of the ink on the fabric. Liberty’s textile designers are experts at creating artwork that has balance, flow and rhythm, making fabrics that are flattering and beautiful. The Tana Lawn base cloth has an inimitable silk-like texture as a result of using long, fine staples of cotton thread, compared with other regular cotton fabrics using short and thick staples. The finer thread used creates a softer, tighter fabric with a higher thread count. This also explains why Liberty Tana lawn is less likely to crease and wrinkle, compared with other cottons. Where is Liberty of London fabric manufactured? Liberty fabric is manufactured within their own printing mill just outside of Lake Como, Italy. Originally produced in Lancashire, England.
Liberty’s London store on Regent Street, London acts as the iconic brand home – and also home to the Liberty Design Studio where the in-house creatives, conceptualise, re-work and hand-draw artwork, creating over 150 fabric designs every year.
Liberty fabric is manufactured within their own printing mill just outside of Lake Como, Italy. Originally produced in Lancashire, England.
Liberty’s London store on Regent Street, London acts as the iconic brand home – and also home to the Liberty Design Studio where the in-house creatives, conceptualise, re-work and hand-draw artwork, creating over 150 fabric designs every year.
Tana Lawn is a 100% cotton fabric, with a fine, tight weave. Made from specially selected ultra-fine and long staples to create a cool and durable fabric with a silk-like feel and brilliant reproduction of Liberty’s lustrous prints. Its bespoke process has been fine-tuned by Liberty Fabric experts over the last 100 years, advancing the product in pinpoint detail.
The now trademarked name of ‘Tana Lawn’ is a reference to Lake Tana in Ethiopia, where the Egyptian cotton used to make it had been grown and discovered.
Liberty Tana Lawn cotton fabric has a width of approximately 1.36m / (54” inches) as standard. At Sew & Quilt, we offer fabrics in units of 1/4m. All fabric orders are cut as continuous lengths. e.g. 4 units will be sent as a 1m piece.
Liberty Tana lawn fabric is the ideal companion for dressmaking and sewing and quilting projects. The lightweight, silk-like feel make them an on-going favourite for garment sewing for both adults and children’s clothing. Quilters alike love them for their richly detailed, immersive prints in often small-scale designs, making them a perfect companion for patchwork quilts and hexagon quilts. They are durable and can be machine washed at 40°c and line dried.
