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Seattle Fabric Store Help?
Look. I’m a costume designer, and this year I have some really ambitious projects. One of them involves making a riddler costume from batman forever. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a really specific color, full spandex/lycra body-suit.
It’s really hard for me to buy fabric offline. I need to be able to touch the fabric to know if it’s something I can work with or not. If I have no other option, I could risk it, but I’d rather not.
SO! does anyone know of a fabric store in the seattle/bothell/western-washington region that sells a wide variety of spandex/lycra/dance-wear fabrics?
I’ve been to Joann’s and Hancock’s, neither sells a wide variety of the fabric, particularly, they don’t sell anything near the color that I need.
I know that I could buy a suit online, but that’s not the point. It has to be handmade.
Thanks in advance…
See if Seattle Fabrics has anything suitable for you:
http://www.seattlefabrics.com/stretch.html
You might also try Pacific Fabrics
If you get down to the Portland, OR area, try Rose City Textiles, Fabric Depot, and Mill End Fabrics
Most of the online retailers of specialty fabrics like Spandex House or FabricDepotCo.com offer swatches, If you can figure out the pantone number of the color you’re looking for (or find a decent match in one of the commonly available threads like Coats or Gutermann or Sulky) you’ll have an easier time with communicating with fabric stores.
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