i always come back to the same point: americans have been paying so much less for fabric than the rest of the world for so long, it's hard to feel too bad for you that your prices are rising. lqs fabrics here in canada are up to $20 a meter for some of the premium mills, and average around $14.
textiles are not sustainably priced, even at $20 a meter. once you start to think about the true cost of production - from environmental impact of mass agricultural cotton fields to peak oil shipping - you have to start to think about the ways it all has to change. all of it.
aileen
aileen