I live about 30 miles south of San Francisco. I am willing to drive to SF (Britex Fabrics), San Jose (Fabrics R Us) and/or Los Altos (Thai Silks) Or anywhere else around here and get prices /samples for folks who live too far away. As these are local places for me, I can just combine a visit to the fabric store with another errand (I know, such a hardship!)I can also buy fabric if you like the samples, but you'd have to pay for both fabric and shipping (some places might sell online or over the phone.) Sharon C.in Redwood City
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marjorie Wilser Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:38 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] where has all the velvet gone? (rant) Dawn, Joann's and Hancock are not exactly known for quality merchandise, and I have no idea about Hobby Lobby. Its name suggests not much. I'd go online to look. The last cotton velvet I found was (improbably) at Wal-Mart in the 1990s. I bought all I could in 3 colors. it's still ripening for a project ;) == Marjorie Wilser (who doesn't shop Wal-Mart any more) =:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:= "Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement." --MW http://3toad.blogspot.com/ On Jan 18, 2010, at 4:39 PM, Dawn wrote: > I had a most disappointing shopping trip today. I was searching for a > nice blue-green cotton velvet and was surprised at the lack of > options. I went to Hancock's first, they had NO fashion velvet of any > kind. They had 3 rolls of upholstery velvet, nice stuff, in black, > brown and red. > > Hobby Lobby had no upholstery velvet, and cheap acrylic fashion velvet > in black, navy and red. I found some medium turquoise on the clearance > rack and bought that. It might work, and it was cheap enough. > > Joann's had the requisite cheap acrylic velvet in red and black, and > no upholstery velvet. Lots of chenille, no velvet. > > So what is it with velvet these days? The acrylic stuff just gets > crappier and crappier and I can't find simple cotton anywhere. > > > > Dawn > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
