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Help! How Do I Figure Out What a Fabric is Made From?

Do you ever buy fabrics online and flea markets? What about your non-quilting friends, do they ever offer to give you excess fabrics? Have you received fabrics in a swap that you're just not sure about? Unless you ly recognize fabrics as quilting cottons, there's no way of knowing their fiber content without performing a few tests.

One way to identify fabric content is to perform a fabric burn test, an easy way to help you determine if a fabric is 100-percent cotton -- or something else. Be sure to perform the burn test outside on a day that's not windy, or in a well ventilated area inside.

Burn Test Supplies

The fabric(s) you want to test
A flameproof container with walls -- try a large ashtray
Long matches or another source of a small flame
Long tweezers or a hemostat

Perform the Fabric Burn Test

Cut small swatches of each fabric you want to test. Two-inch squares are fine.