In Paducah, during Quilt Week, Eleanor Burns has many "stores" to buy her goods/fabrics - her Quilt In A Day store, a warehouse and usually another large location. They have dozens of ladies/clerks manning dozens of tables/cash registers and THEY ALL RIP THE FABRIC - ALL DAY LONG. I have bought lots of pieces of fabrics and cannot even tell that it was ripped or pick it out of a piece of fabric on my shelf that was ripped. One lady said that their hands could not take it if they had to cut fabric all day long - all week long.