It seems sad to me that a few big companies own everyone else now. I don't use Amazon because of a problem I had with them when my account was fraudulently charged $400 and they were not at all helpful (that is all in some other post) but I didn't know that they owned Fabric.com too. There should be a way to look up the fabric websites and find out which are independently owned. Like Dave's Garden has a way to check connections between the mail order gardening companies.