You can pick the chinese brocades up for relatively inexpensive (compared to the $20-30/yd I've seen them go for online in fabric stores) in NYC's fashion district. Both are silk brocades and I paid $9/yd for the silver one and $15/yd for the black. On an earlier shopping trip I've picked up a black chinese brocade with round gold medallions for $7/yd from a place that was doing a closeout sale (they always seem to be doing those though).
The guy in the store ripped us off a bit on the black, as we'd been there maybe an hour earlier and he'd said $10... and he'd tried to sell it for like $16, but then he took it down to $15. We didn't feel like arguing, and he was the only one who we knew had the black-on-black, so I just bought it anyway.
And now I just wish I owned my own sewing machine :)
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Date: 2003-04-05 02:03 pm (UTC)You can pick the chinese brocades up for relatively inexpensive (compared to the $20-30/yd I've seen them go for online in fabric stores) in NYC's fashion district. Both are silk brocades and I paid $9/yd for the silver one and $15/yd for the black. On an earlier shopping trip I've picked up a black chinese brocade with round gold medallions for $7/yd from a place that was doing a closeout sale (they always seem to be doing those though).
The guy in the store ripped us off a bit on the black, as we'd been there maybe an hour earlier and he'd said $10... and he'd tried to sell it for like $16, but then he took it down to $15. We didn't feel like arguing, and he was the only one who we knew had the black-on-black, so I just bought it anyway.
And now I just wish I owned my own sewing machine :)
nice current music, btw.
Thanks :)