Originally Posted by
bkay
Email Kona for advice.
I think they are having some quality problems. Over the last few months I've gotten three totally different fabrics for Kona black. The texture and color was different in all three. I mailed one off to Kona and they said it wasn't Kona. it was labeled Kona on the bolt, though.
bkay
Several years ago I was in a Joannes fabric when they were having a sale on Kona and I personally witnessed them rolling their economy priced broadcloth solid onto a Kona bolt. The employee assumed they were consolidating the same fabric onto a bolt so they didn't have 5 different black solid bolts. Many of the employees at Joannes aren't sewers or quilters and to them a solid is a solid and they don't know or care about the difference. That incident convinced me to never purchase fabric there again.