About Minerva

Minerva discount codes and voucher codes are listed above. What follows: what the shop stocks, how to buy fabric without wasting it, and what a Minerva discount code covers.

About Minerva

Minerva is a British fabric and haberdashery retailer based in Lancashire, trading for years as Minerva Crafts before shortening the name. It sells to home dressmakers rather than to industry.
The range is unusually deep for an online fabric shop, and the site carries a large community side — projects, patterns and makers — which is where most of its customers come from.

What they stock

Dressmaking fabrics by the metre across cotton, jersey, viscose, linen, wool and specialist cloth, sewing patterns from the main pattern houses, haberdashery from zips and thread to buttons and interfacing, yarn and knitting supplies, and sewing machines with their accessories.
End-of-line and deadstock fabric appears regularly, including ex-designer cloth sold at a fraction of its original price, and that stock is one-off: when a roll goes, it is gone.

Buying fabric online

Read the composition, the width and the weight together. A pattern's fabric requirement assumes a width — usually 112 or 150 centimetres — and buying the same metreage in the narrower width leaves you short. Weight in grams per square metre tells you how the cloth will hang far better than the photograph does.
Order a swatch when the colour or handle matters. Screens misrepresent colour badly on saturated dyes, and drape is impossible to judge from an image; a swatch costs a fraction of the fabric.
Buy the whole project's fabric in one order. Dye lots vary between rolls, and running short means either a visible mismatch or starting again.
Add allowance for pattern matching, pre-washing shrinkage and, on directional prints or napped fabric, for cutting all pieces the same way up. Fifteen per cent extra is a sensible habit on anything patterned.
Cut fabric is made to order and cannot normally be returned for a change of mind, which makes the swatch the cheap insurance.

Using a Minerva discount code

Add the fabric and the notions, apply the code at the checkout and check the total. These appear as Minerva discount codes, voucher codes and promo codes.
Clearance and deadstock lines already carry their reduction and rarely take a further percentage. Sewing machines are usually excluded from sitewide offers, since the makers set the pricing.