A Discount Fabric Paradise

If you sew, or do crafts involving fabric, on your next trip to Dallas, Texas, you should make the time to stop by some of the best wholesale fabric shopping businesses in the country. I’m talking, of course, about the famous discount district in Dallas off of Harry Hines Boulevard, which is where clothing designers, interior decorators, and other bulk users of fabrics sell off their unused fabric, and you can get it at wholesale prices or less!

Not only can you buy fabric, but you can buy everything and anything associated with sewing, upholstery, garments and crafts–notions, patterns, trim, buttons, foam for cushions, pillow forms, and more. These are not the “discount” fabric stores like you may have seen, but the true bargains.

For example, pintucked silk is not available at all in the “consumer stores”–the ones you get coupons for. In the so-called “discount” retailers that I shopped (where most interior decorators get their fabrics), I compared the price of pintucked silk. It averaged about $70 per yard–very pricey! At these stores that I shopped on this tiny street off of Harry Hines Boulevard, the exact same silk was $28 per yard, with a faux pearl added at each corner. And if I wanted certain colours, I could get it on clearance at the same stores for $4.99 a yard!

So don’t miss out on the fabric and trim bargains of your life–if you’re in Dallas, plan a day trip to stop by and save. You’ll need a van to carry all your finds home!