A blood-stained fabric swatch that’s said to come from a dress worn at the time of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is going up for sale.

To simulate drops from a cut or nosebleed, we added four 0.5 mL drops of pig blood procured from a butcher to swatches we sourced from fabric bolts, pillowcases, T-shirts, and jeans, representing ...

What did excite him, Leershen writes, were fabric swatches, which he would choose for his hotels' upholstery needs. "Indeed, flipping through fabric swatches seemed at times to be his main occupation.

BOSTON (AP) — A swatch of canvas recovered from the wreckage of the Hindenburg has sold for more than $36,000 at auction.

Every year, upholstery fabric designers put out oodles of swatch books filled with beautiful, luxurious fabrics. At year’s end it’s in with the new, and out to the landfill with the old.