Carol Watkinson Unclaimed

Carol Watkinson has spent many years putting together a collection of fabric swatches, technical manuals and cross-references to help young designers and experienced textile personnel to recognise and understand textiles

Though the books have had recent technical updates by Heidi, the original research for the learning materials offered by Fabrics Unravelled was done back in 1991, by Carol Watkinson, who set about compiling a comprehensive reference tool, with physical fabric samples, to identify different fabric types.  A former lecturer in the School of Fashion Design at the Durban University of Technology, she eventually gathered 418 samples, that can be found today in Fabrics Unravelled’s Educational package, a box with swatches and reference books.