Our WW never closed the fabric dept. However they managed to make the area managers life so miserable she quit after 24 years of running the department and now has a new job with way less stress. The department was always in the top 200 of the stores, but with a new manager that just hounded her to death to get rid of a "higher wage" employee and then put the department under someone who does not even sew. Great help a customer gets from this person. I also found lots of "cheap" fabric, loosely woven so when the sizing washes out its a very inferior fabric. Also prices for the better fabric is now nearly "$8 a yard. So it goes. At least it is back.