All Fabrics are the finest quality imported chenille.
They are 100% cotton and completely washable.
Our fabrics are NOT like those less expensive knock offs - they do NOT shed, they
have an excellent quality backing fabric, and are exceptionally soft to the touch!

Please note ....colors viewed on your screen should not be used for anything other than reference - sample pieces, or a sample pack should be ordered for exact color matching!!!!!!!!!

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Turquoise "Woogie" Gorgeous twisted cotton loop - loop is 1.5" long! Fabric 54" width 100 % Cotton 35.00/yd Woogie style is NOT included in sample pack		Soft Green Woogie Gorgeous twisted cotton loop - loop is 1.5" long!Fabric 54" width 100 % Cotton 35.00/yd Woogie style is NOT included in sample pack
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Pink Woogie Gorgeous twisted cotton loop - loop is 1.5" long! Fabric 54" width 100 % Cotton 35.00/yd Woogie style is NOT included in sample pack		Rose Woogie Gorgeous twisted cotton loop - loop is 1.5" long! Fabric 54" width 100 % Cotton 35.00/yd Woogie style is NOT included in sample pack
		Set of Woogie Samples $5.99 Includes an approx. 3''x4" swatch of all colors

Dot Samples $4.00 Samples available by style - One set includes ALL Colors available within that style. Item: SAM/DOT Click Here for a FULL set of samples

Yardage Conversion Chart Fraction Decimal   Fraction Decimal 1/8 .125   5/8 .625 1/4 .250   2/3 .667 1/3 .333   3/4 .750 3/8 .375   7/8 .875 1/2 .500

The Fabrics Chenille Magic sells are excellent in quality.
There are no minimums to meet, and ordering is simple!
(952) 831.3511 (952) 960.0130 FAX
Our  Warehouse is located at 7393 Bush Lake Road Edina, MN 55439 We welcome "will call" orders  -
"will call" meaning that you cannot come into the warehouse and shop, but you may certainly order by phone for pick up within 24 hours.
Please call ahead with your order requirements and we will have your items ready for you to pick up within 24 hours.
Will Call pick up hours are Monday through Friday 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. 
Note: fabrics cut to your specifications would need a 24 hour turnaround time.
To Contact Us...customerservice@chenillemagic.com

History of Chenille ...

In 1895, Catherine Evans was inspired by a family heirloom and made her first hand-tufted chenille bedspread. Five years later she sold a similar spread for $2.50.

Miss Evans moved to Dalton from a rural community in Whitfield County. Popularity of the chenille bedspread grew, and when she began receiving orders for her work, Miss Evans asked some of her neighbors to help her. Using quilting designs, she showed her helpers how to stamp the pattern on the fabric and make the chenille tufting stitches. From this beginning, Evans Manufacturing Company was established in 1917, and was operated by the founder until 1963 when the business was sold.

Early chenille bedspread operations were conducted in people's homes. The "company" furnished the stamped sheeting and chenille yarn for tufting to the women and children who did the work. Tufting is simply sewing yarn into the base fabric which, when laundered, shrinks around the base of the tuft causing it to "bloom" and stay in place. By the late 20's and early 30's, mechanization took the craft from the homes to factories, and the chenille tufted textile industry was successfully on its way.

The first chenille tufting machine was a Singer 31-15, normally used for sewing heavy textiles, such as tents and work clothes, but converted especially for tufting. About 1940, wide chenille tufting machines were built. Forerunners of today's giant carpet tufting machines, the early counterparts were used to turn out continuous rolls of tufted chenille fabric or cotton chenille rugs. Dozens of people claim credit for developing the first practical machine, and patents were issued to various inventors, but it is impossible to name any one inventor.

It is the chenille bedspread industry that eventually became our carpet industry of today. Until 1954 only cotton was used for tufting carpet. Rayon, wool, nylon and acrylics followed and became the fibers of the modern age of carpet, but the weaving process made it expensive and slow to produce. With the advent of man-made fibers and the huge multi-needle tufting machine, there have been dramatic changes in the carpet industry. A wide range of styles, patterns and colors is available at prices affordable in most budgets. Over 500 million yards of carpeting are tufted every year, and 65% of that is tufted in the Dalton, Georgia area where Miss Evans began the industry with her first hand tufted chenille bedspreads.

The first 12-foot-wide tufted carpet was manufactured in the early 1950s. During the remainder of the decade, improvements to the tufting machines patterned after the original chenille bedspreads, and the end product continued. Foremost among the inventions in this decade were pattern attachment devices. These devices permitted machines to produce multiple pile heights and geometric and other patterns in the same piece of carpet, something that previously was possible only in woven carpet. With these more intricate patterns and increasingly closer gauges, tufted carpets began to compete successfully against woven carpets. By 1965 more than 85 percent of broadloom carpeting sold in the United States was tufted. Today, with minor modifications, loop and cut-pile carpets can be manufactured on the same machine, and pattern attachments are computerized. Efforts continue to duplicate completely the density and pattern of woven carpet.