I gave up too and shop online, for the cotton velvet. I got some super soft rose color cotton velvet at Fabric.com and also some nice black cotton velvet on sale for $5.75 a yd. Might see what they have up. melody
--- On Mon, 1/18/10, Dawn <d...@reddawn.net> wrote: From: Dawn <d...@reddawn.net> Subject: [h-cost] where has all the velvet gone? (rant) To: "Historical Costume" <h-cost...@indra.com> Date: Monday, January 18, 2010, 4:39 PM 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 h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
