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I don't want to be a "material girl," so i use fabric.
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YEY!!!!! correct! It has always been an issue with me. It used to drive me crazy, and I only an English major. 'Dry Goods' also fit into this subject. However, ladies remember the Dictonary continues to grow daily.
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LOL The things we can talk about on here. lol I love it.
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It is an age thing. I never heard it called fabric before I was an adult. Probably regional too.
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I wonder if it started the same way, on one coast you may call it pop, on the other coast soda, and in a lot of places they just call it pepsi, or what ever it is you want.
Potatoe - Potato Tomatoe - Tomato Roof - Ruf Aunt - Ant All the same to me. |
Funny - I remember going to the material store back in the day. Now, fabric store.
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Fabric because it is FAB.
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I USED to call it material - now call it fabric. I don't know why!
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It's our age, I guess. It all was material when I was a young whippersnapper. Fabric does sound more elegant. The 30s fabric does look like material.
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Same reason the words buy and bought are becoming obsolete in favor of purchase and purchased and why my friends from north of the Mason Dixon line insist that a grocery sack is most certainly not a sack, but a bag.
Note that I did not give a reason...just said it was the same reason, whatever it is. froggyintexas |
Originally Posted by grammy25
Why is it when we quilt, we call it fabric and when we sew, we call it material?
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fabric is fabric, no matter the use. material is the things
you use for a project, including fabric. At least that is the way it was explained to me by a fabric salesman. |
Aren't we humans Weird?????????
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Originally Posted by caliquocat
I think the answer lies in how old one is & the local custom where we live.
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it always FABRIC,, cuz I aint a "material girl"...ehhehehahaha
right....with my stash....I am very much a material girl.. |
Originally Posted by kathidahl
Originally Posted by caliquocat
I think the answer lies in how old one is & the local custom where we live.
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Oh boy, am I showing my age??? I remember as a little girl, my mother used to call the fabric stores, Dry Goods store. A few of our old time fabric stores here still call themselves Dry Goods store and I remember them being in business from my young days.
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Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
Fabric is only one kind of material. There is also wood, brick, insulation. Those are all material (for building-- can you tell I am married to a former contractor?) There is also landscaping material, roofing material, get it? Material is what you use to do a job, but it's not always fabric. Fabric, however, always means fabric. I never ask for material, as it's too general a term. If I mean fabric, I say fabric.
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Because it is material in the planning process but by the time we get to sewing it we have a relationship with it. Fabric is a more intimate term and much more personal.
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You say fabric we,o/here say material.
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'Material' is a generic term which covers all kind of substances, including fabric!
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