I have made neck ties for my husband for years, and bow ties for one of our friends. A few weeks ago I was at Hobby Lobby looking through the upholstery fabric (I have found cool tie fabric there before) when I found this cork fabric. It isn't a print of cork it is real cork. I have been pondering how to make it into a functioning neck and bow tie. I finally figured it out, they are "falsey's" since the action of tying and untying would ruin the cork, but here they are. My husband love's his tie and our friend hasn't seen his yet (doesn't even know it's in the works)
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And here is a pic of my two boom fabrics half will get one and half the other.
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My vision is to use my fabric as the background and add a color of you choice to it (that is what I was doing when I was going to send black and white still pondering if I am going to do that for the brown / cream)