NikkiLu

I go to the big Quilt Show in Paducah and Eleanor Burns has a store there, and rents a warehouse or two or a tent, to sell Tons of bolts of fabrics. Her employees Rip/Tear all of the fabric - lines are 10 deep and women have stacks and stacks of bolts to be cut. I asked the clerk one time about tearing the fabric and she said that none of them could possibly cut all of the fabric that we were buying. On a side note, EB rented a building in a livestock fairgrounds one year and it had a dirt/rock floor and she had tables all around where you could put your bolts of fabric while you were waiting in line - to "mark" yours, she said to pick up a clean rock and put it on the top of your pile - so everybody would know that this pile was taken - LOL