We got our fabric dept. back at one close store, the other close store removed all sewing notions completly. I don't consider myself a fabric snob and have always shopped at walmarts and Joanns with an eye (should say feel) for the better stuff. But I've got to tell you I did buy a yard of some fabric that felt good, stretched right etc. I washed it......I held it up to the light....I think I could have read my neighor across the streets address through it. Whatever they coated it with was washed out and the hand of the fabric was completly different <very big sigh>....on another note...one compelling reason to wash all fabric before you sew (IMHO)