I have this great visual image of a fabric store that's part Hogwarts and part library from "The Name of the Rose....." *sigh* --Sue
----- Original Message ----- From: "cahuff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 7:07 PM Subject: [h-cost] Re: old fabric and trim stores > At 6:28 PM -0600 6/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Better yet, I remember when they took up seven floors of an ancient > >building on G Street, with stuff piled everywhere. If you were willing to > >dig, you could find old bolts of wonderful stuff with old wonderful prices > >on them, which clearly had not been touched for years. > > > >--Robin > > And Joy Trims was still around...SIGH I still have a few leftovers > from the last big buy from them. > And yes the old G Street was well worth the trip. I know it's heresy > but the new ones are just not as wonderful as the old one with the > rickety elevator and the great piles of wonderful stuffs... > And Minnesota Fabrics had real remnants and Dannaman's in Newark had > great bolts of Buddhist Orange silk for $1 a yard...which overdyed so > well as well as other great ends. > > SIGH a moment of silence > > Carol > -- > Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness! > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
