As some of you know, I have been looking into sources for more fabric and I had decided on a wonderful 100% bamboo woven fabric. Well the long waiting is finally over and the fabric is here! I can now call myself a successful importer! It was quite a learning experience figuring out things like harmonized tariff codes, import fees, duties and taxes and talking to people like import brokers and mill representatives. You can't even imagine how insanely complicated it is to figure out a harmonized tariff code if you don't know where to look, especially on things like textiles.
So anyways, the fabric is finally here and it is just fabulous! I'm super excited about it. I just wish I had more time to actually use some myself! In the next couple days I'm sure I'll be able to finally sit down and sew something beautiful with it. But for now, I'm offering it to all you wonderful sewists out there for $6.25/yd for up to 10 yds, 11-25 yards the price drops to $6/yd and 26 yds+ the price is $5.90/yard. You can either email me at infinitecosmos420@yahoo.com and place your order that way or check out my etsy shop: http://InfiniteCosmosHemp.etsy.com. Believe me when I say I have enough for everyone who wants some! I am also working with the mill from whom I bought this fabric to produce some hemp fabrics too so be on the look out in the next couple months for that. It has been difficult finding just the right mill and fabric for my inventory but I have a lot of confidence in the mill that produced this bamboo fabric so I'll keep you all updated on the production of the new hemp fabrics as the weeks go by.
In other fabric news, I found another bamboo fabric supplier that produces wonderful knit fabrics! So next month I will have a stock of various bamboo/organic cotton blend fabrics including velour, fleece (I decided that there was enough interest in the black fleece so you can expect to see that in the future), jersey, and a couple other luxurious woven fabrics such as an EXTRA wide (230cm!!) sheeting fabric that will be perfect to make sheets and bed linens! I can't wait to make myself some awesome sheets and pillow cases with that stuff. Since these fabrics will be made from the highest quality fibers, the prices will be slightly higher, but still competitive. The fleece will be around $10/yard (I haven't seen it for less than that online, especially the black!), the jersey will be around $7/yard and the velour will also be around $10/yard. But I will crunch the numbers after I figure out all the duties, taxes and fees when it arrives and see what kind of prices will be reasonable after all that.
If you've made it this far, thank you! Not the most exciting post if you have no interest in my fabrics, but since I'm obsessed with fabric, I'm pretty excited about all the new stuff coming my way! Talk to y'all later!
2 comments:
yay! can't wait until mine arrives!! ooooh, did you say velour? guess i'll be back sooner than expected.glad to see you loving your blog again!
Do You Have any of the sheeting fabric you wrote about? If so how much etc? If not, will you be getting some soon?
Thank You
Pam
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