Fabric prices
#91
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Nawth o' Boston
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The economic issue goes back to the closing of the textile mills and garment factories in the US. Manufacturers need to show short-term profits to the shareholders or they will be out on their fat behinds. They were able to circumvent federal safety regulations, union living-wage requirements, and federal and state taxes, and make a pile of money for the shareholders, by going off-shore. Works for them.
For me, I'm glad to have affordable clothes, and enough disposable income to spend cutting perfectly good cotton fabric which cost $10-12/yard in to little bits and then spend countless hours sewing it back together in clever ways.
Go in piece!
For me, I'm glad to have affordable clothes, and enough disposable income to spend cutting perfectly good cotton fabric which cost $10-12/yard in to little bits and then spend countless hours sewing it back together in clever ways.
Go in piece!
#92
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Here and there
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The unions destroyed the fabric production industry in the US, as they have done with automaking and steel making. It's not the hourly wage that is so exhorbitant, but the bennies and retirement plans that put such a burden on the manufacturer.
However, this forum is not for political opinions, so I will get off my soapbox and continue reading.
However, this forum is not for political opinions, so I will get off my soapbox and continue reading.
#94
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Location: MO (the Show Me state)
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#95
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Oxford, CT
Posts: 126
I know prices at LQS may seem high but we actually pay very high prices for the goods. In the 15 yrs I've worked in the industry I've seen our costs rise to higher prices than what fabric used to be at retail. Trust me, no one is trying to rip anyone off. Good quality Fabric is expensive. Fabric is really not the source of most stores' profits.
#96
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Oregon
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$10 to $12 here. Which is why I shop yard sales, Goodwill, Craigslist, etc. I just picked up 8 yards of fabric for $2 per yard, and its lovely. I am also keeping an eye on XL & XXL cotton shirts -- I'm going to start buying some of those on sale and take the shirts apart to make quilts with, like Bonnie Hunter does. We all need to do what we can to get our fabric for our art -- I refuse to pay $10 to $12 per yard! I'd love to support my LQS, but I refuse to pay those prices....too many other things I can use that money for.
#97
saw a response in my email:
Where do you find member's fabrics for sale?
Thanks
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Go to the hoe board and scroll down to "Ites for Sell or Trade" section. There will be postings of members who sell their stash.
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Didn't know ho's could trade or sell on this board! lol
Where do you find member's fabrics for sale?
Thanks
---End Quote---
Go to the hoe board and scroll down to "Ites for Sell or Trade" section. There will be postings of members who sell their stash.
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Didn't know ho's could trade or sell on this board! lol
#98
prices range from $10-$20 a meter.
these threads are really starting to chafe. i wish people could understand the slavery economy behind fabric production, and the reality of what it would cost should the true costs of fabric be charged back to the consumer. the environmental impact of industrial cotton production is truly, truly horrifying.
we pay a small fraction of what fabric really costs, both to the humans who make it and to the planet that we take it from.
aileen
these threads are really starting to chafe. i wish people could understand the slavery economy behind fabric production, and the reality of what it would cost should the true costs of fabric be charged back to the consumer. the environmental impact of industrial cotton production is truly, truly horrifying.
we pay a small fraction of what fabric really costs, both to the humans who make it and to the planet that we take it from.
aileen
JudyB
#99
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Leigh-on-sea, UK
Posts: 37
Ladies, you are very lucky to get it so cheaply in the US. A Moda fabric in the UK will cost you £14.99 which equates to approximately $25. It is a misconception that crafts are a cheap hobby, however I look at this in the same way I look at my knitting... I have the fun of making it up and then I get a secondary pleasure from giving it to someone or using it myself
#100
Reading all of the comments makes me glad that I have a very large stash and have no need to shop the stores with the very high prices. I still buy from connecting threads when they have a sale to purchase backing.
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