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<title>Italian Fabric takes shape in China</title>
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<description>Wealthy Chinese are fast developing a taste for high-end Italian-styled clothing. Fabric exports from Italy to China grew 27.2 percent last year from 2010 to 203 million euros...
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<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 10:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Embroidered and printed cotton needlecord</title>
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<description>Printed corduroy and needlecord is great for making little girls dresses and pretty accessories and we have a few new cotton needlecord fabrics just in.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Croft Mill Finally Joins Facebook</title>
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<description>Why oh why has this taken so long? We are now on Facebook! It&amp;rsquo;s one of those to do jobs that is really important but for non social mediarites it has been a little daunting and has stayed on the &amp;lsquo;to do&amp;rsquo; list. Not now though as we are up and running so please join us and like us if you like.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jubilee and Olympic Fabrics</title>
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<description>All fabrics red, white and blue, if you need Great British themed fabrics then you may need to look no further.  </description>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 May 2012 12:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The politics of fabric and cotton</title>
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<description>The politics of fabric and cotton, with the price of cotton souring on the last 12 months, is it time for it to come down?</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 May 2012 11:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fabulously fun printed waterproof fabrics just in</title>
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<description>We have some fabulously fun printed waterproof fabrics just in at Croft Mill. We love this selection of PVC coated printed ripstop fabrics in 5 designs which are great for making wow things. Aprons, bags, coats hats, back it with fleece and make a really funky picnic mat.
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<pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Fabric out of stock!! Help.</title>
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<description>We often get emailed about why our fabrics are still on the website when they are out of stock. There are a number of reasons for this so let me explain</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Croft Mill now have better shipping rates to USA, Canada, Australia and Japan</title>
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<description>At Croft Mill we have now introduced shipping on the website to USA, Canada, Australia and Japan and have reduced rates elsewhere in the aim to get our dress making fabrics to the far reaches of the globe.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New fabrics for all occasions, coatings, suitings, woollens, dress fabrics.</title>
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<description>Coatings, suitings, woollens, are we mad at Croft Mill? Well a week ago you may have said yes but with a 22 degree drop in temperature maybe not. This is not all we have been on the hunt for, we have some lovely new chiffon fabrics printed in Germany....</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The New Croft Mill Catalogue</title>
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<description>Spring is Sprung - The New Croft Mill fabric catalogue is on its way and available online to view. If you would like a postal copy then please filll in your request here. The boiler has gone and its only 10 degrees in here. The mill walls keep the heat out so here we are in our gloves. You may not be busy at your sewing machine but we have been busy trying to find new, interesting and fabulous fabrics that we hope you will love and keep you busy.  We have lots of fabrics from cottons to a quilted check for you to choose from here with a few more that you will find on the website.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Apr 2012 13:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kids Corner - Fabrics</title>
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<description>Cotton Flannel, Patchwork, Waffle, Needlecord, Drill and Fleece fabrics. Make blankets, beanbags, curtains, bumpers, sheets, creatures and more...</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 3 Apr 2012 9:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cotton  piqu&amp;eacute; fabrics just in</title>
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<description>Really lovely quality cotton  piqu&amp;eacute; striped fabrics just in at Croft Mill.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mary Portas</title>
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<description>Dont you just love her? Well maybe not but I think she's great. She is so right!  I don&amp;rsquo;t want to go into a political ramble....</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Croft Mill finally starts tweeting</title>
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<description>Everyone has said you must do it. Well we have finally got going and have been tweeting on Twitter.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nana Makes - Girls dresses from Croft Mill fabric</title>
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<description>Not that any of you need inspiration but we are very lucky to have our resident Nana B who creates and has been making stuff all her life as many of our customers have. Here are some dresses she has been making for my little girl. </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Designer Jersey Dress Fabrics</title>
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<description>We have a small selection of designer dress fabrics just in.</description>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Italian Cotton Lawn Dress Fabrics</title>
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<description>We have a new selection of designer cotton lawn fabrics to help you stay cool.
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<pubDate>Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Cotton Waffle Fabric</title>
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<description>New in; 60&amp;rdquo; wide heavy cotton waffle fabric in white and cream widely used at one time in the best places to stay where dressing gowns and slippers were made of the same.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New range of poly cotton fabrics - all under &amp;pound;4.25 per metre</title>
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<description>Many of you wanted to see a larger choice of poly/ cotton prints so we have added some new patterns to the range.....</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Change of layout to the website</title>
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<description>We have made a few changes to the layout of the website. It is all in the pursuit of making it easier for you to find the fabrics you want. </description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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