HUGE Vintage Fabric Haul! Fabric store shut down 40 years ago || Part Two
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- This huge estate sale is of a dressmaker in South Carolina who just locked her doors in 1981 and walked away from the store she owned. 40 years later, myself and two other vintage TH-camrs are getting access to hundred of yards of deadstock vintage fabric, vintage patterns, vintage trims and all other kinds of vintage clothing and jewelry! I will show you a taste of my estate sale haul, but that will primarily be the second video in this series. But there are still estate sale finds to be seen in this video as well.
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I worked at a Cloth World in the 70's, and this is bringing it all back to me. What I remember most was having to take about a yard and a half of each vertically placed bolt and bias fold to drape over the end. It really did show off any fabric well.
we did the same at Fabricland
I so miss Cloth World in Phoenix.
I miss cloth world. I worked there 2 years and then through the transition to JoAnn. 8 years total!!!
An hour of just talking about and showing vintage fabric? Yes please. I see so many I'm already in love with.
YUP! I managed to cut it down from originally 2.5 hours of footage. Dang tower of fabric.
@@StephanieCanada lol I would have watched the uncut version. You and Rachel Masky are my go to videos when I'm sewing. Her video last week was so cute, I got to be one of the pictures she used. I was the clown with my teddy bear at about the 7 minute mark.
@@elizabethmccalla5767 agreed, I could watch just a 12 hr stream of both
Flower power😊
Stephanie Canada and the Giant Tower of Fabric
Long may she reign. Huzzah!
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
Both building it AND taking it down was terrifying
Flower Power
My daughters are stunned that I could have worn clothes with these colors and prints as a child in the 60s and 70s.....lol
The fabric bolt from Dan River. I used to work for that company in 1979 in Danville, VA. . For the employees there was an outlet we got to buy fabric at a discount. My grandmother worked many years there and I remember she took me to buy fabric, She made my wedding gown from Dan River outlet. My best friend made comforters. I worked in the weave room. Seeing that bolt brought back memories.
I made my son’s crib sheet, bumper pads, and quilt with Dan River baby fabric while I was pregnant with him. Great to be reminded of Dan River. Not sure the company still exists.
@@sewingintrifocals-alisonde7778 The mill shur down in the 90's
I don't know if you were thinking of the cartoon rainbow cats (for the kitty fabric), but Google says those are Laurel Burch.
Oh MAYBE!!! Thanks!
Forgot to say, even if something is not your color pallet, you use it below and have a coordinate or contrast fabric that is your pallet next to your face. Works.
Lovely fabrics! The unknown flowers are clover and cornflowers. Smocking hides a lot of the fading issues in the small prints for little girls.
Birdy
Brilliant! Thank you!
Flower power!! I think I've just found my new favorite rabbit hole: vintage fabric haul videos.
16:48... botanical cotton. Clover flowers and batchelor's buttons. It's adorable
Your unicorn kiddo needs something out of that rainbow fabric!
Oh absolutely! She gets to pick one for a dress for herself.
My sister used A pastel rainbow like that double net polyester to make shorts except hers were actual cotton. This was in 1984 in sewing class
Flower Power! You just transported me back to the late sixties/early seventies when college student would-be fashionista me spent all my spare time sewing outrageous outfits for myself. So many of these fabrics are at least sisters to ones I used and wore. Considering I was living in Iowa at the time, my wardrobe was pretty far out there. I’ll be emailing about a couple of the tamer ones, btw.
Aww thank you! I am so glad I get to share my step back in time with everyone. I am sure your wardrobe must’ve been out of this world!
You are a sorceress. I have no interest in adding to my, already, mountain of fabric that I need to turn into outfits and yet I am half an hour into looking at pretty, pretty fabric. 😂
Btw, youtuber Krimson Rogue is an author/book reviewer with a throne of books. Just in case you need an idea for fabric storage.
So many tears, I was eying that blue fabric for your 1910s skirt the entire video
Flower power!!
Holy Mary Tyler Moore! This reminds me of my senior year ( high school) job, I worked at Mary Lester fabrics in Chicago. (1979-1980) flower power
Flower power!! OMG that "spicy" fabric is certainly some yellow submarine Beatles vibes
Flower power. My aunt made ties in the 70s that were very bright!
She's right! The mermaid is EVERYTHING! It IS STUNNING
Flower power
Omg this stuff is such a 70's flashback
That is some awesome flower power in that haul! And a flash back from my childhood came up at 16 min sharp, which is a bit interesting since I was born in Sweden in -82. The red clover and blue cornflower print, or rödklöver and blåklint, so cute.
That is the one that caught my eye. I was also born in Sweden and remember prints like this and of course these wild flowers, which are my favorites along with blasippan.
I can't get enough of those large-scale 70s florals, especially the bright pinks!
💐Flower power!💐
flower power.... omg I loved some of these fabrics, but your reaction to some of them made me laugh so hard. I do the exact same thing though I tend to imitate Gollum more (MY PRECIOUS)
Oh yes. The ones I pet because I love them so!!
BAhaha! That will now be stuck in my brain whenever I am shopping for fabric-the precioussssssss. . .
Flower power-better late than never 😂 I just found your channel and I’ve been laughing all day!!
My mom worked at Pacific Fabrics years ago!
Hey there just looked it up on bolted fabric every 2 folds of fabric makes a yard! But only count from one side and it needs to be where the folded edge is not the salvage hope that helps
I was going to say about the same thing! For inventory purposes, we used to take a knitting needle (to help identify the folds ) and count 1 yard for every 2 folds on one side of the bolt. :-)
Oh my goodness!! Thank you so much! I was so focused on describing everything accurately I forgot to look that up.
It's been a year, but seeing all those 70s fabrics made me think of hippies, Woodstock, flower power, and Watergate, though really only Watergate was 70s, the others were late 60s. Love your work!
Flower Power! What really amazed me about this haul are the number of fabrics I remember having seen before when fabric shopping in the 60s/70s/80s. Actually I think that print at the end is by someone in particular...I've seen it before....
Flower power! I totally loved this video. I remember when flocked fabrics used to be in the fabric stores. They are not now!!! I loved that we could see a lot of the info on the end of the fabric bolts, it was a great walk back in before my time. You know, when there used to be American textile manufacturing and there were names for fabric like Avril ( rayon) and Dacron (polyester). Super fun video for us fabric nerds!
Flower Power! That fabric reminded me of the art of Peter Maxx. He was the inspiration for the Beatles movie Yellow Submarine.
Flower Power 😅 Living vicariously through you in these videos to visit estate sales and handle all the fabrics
Awww that rose fabric is AMAZING. I’m bummed out that I can’t purchase it, but I can’t wait to see what you make from it.
Well I have to lay out my sewing plans first. If I have enough to make mine AND sell some I will let y’all know. When in doubt email me anyways, sometimes I just can bear to cut into them.
FLOWER POWER - I watched this throughout the past two days and I'm LOVING these long videos! I need some of those psychedelic prints in my life
Walk down memory lane. Can we say definitely from the 1970’s
The screaming lamb was my favorite today.
Flower Power. Just so you know, I skipped the descriptions of the fabric I was not really interested in, but I did watch the video. I also sent an email.
No worries! I don’t actually expect everyone to watch the whole thing. This was a LONG ONE.
Flower Power. I watched you for two days straight! You're my tv!
Flower Power! Love those panels, beautiful and hilarious! I'm having a "serious" debate with myself about wanting to buy some of these.
Amen to that.
Plan your work and work your plan. You GOT THIS!
Had such a busy day it was wonderful to sit with you and squee over fabric for over an hour
Also love the idea of the pink fabric Halloween project, much more my style. Flower power is hilarious
Flower Power! I loved the plaids.
Is it bad I'm watching this at work! Totally loving this❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🔥
NOPE (I won’t tell if you won’t)
Flower power! I worked for Hancock Fabric in the 1980s I actually remember a lot of those prints 🤣
I might help you to know if you look at the folded end of the bolt, every 2 folds you count, on one side of the bolt, equals 1 yard. Love the haul!
I miss Hancock Fabrics. There was one in Redlands, Calif. near where I used to live, and maybe another in Lake Forest, Calif., near my mother’s house.
Thanks for the measuring tips!
Flower power! That brings back memories of 70s school clothes my mom made for me!
Also Flower Power. Good lord, that’s just awesome.
You made it!!!
Wow. Flower Power. I loved all those bright 70s prints.
Flower power, so cool to see history in fabric❤
SPICY flower power - OMG!!! My hoarding hound is howling right now - this is AWESOME!!!
It was a GREAT find! I still have some left on my website!
Flower 🌸 Power! I live my life through your adventures! I love you Stephanie ❤️ These fabrics are exceptional! I have a list of the ones I want! And after all that work and endless shopping in what most of us sewers would have called heaven (someone gots to do it) you can dye that fabric black as black can be! Thank you for rescuing these fabrics…
Flower Power These remind me of digging through my grandmas old sewing stuff when I was a kid, wish they still made awesome prints like this.
agree and in something more than quilting cotton!
flower power....ooooh, you took me straight back to my teens. fun times
I swear my mom had a sheet set at one point that look like the fabric from the moldy bolt. I might still have the pillow cases somewhere. I’m also in love with that mustard-y plaid fabric and I’m trying to talk myself out of seeing if it’s still available. I want it but I definitely don’t need more fabric, but the idea of turning into a half circle skirt is soooo tempting.😬 edit: oh my god that orange plaid 🤤😍
Flower Power! Boy does this video take me back!!
Love that mustard plaid, ooh that orange plaid.
flower power for sure.
That's some serious and hilarious swag
flower power! there's a few of these i would love to have but thankfully for my budget i vowed not to buy any more polyester...
Brava!! And to that I take no issue. Good for you setting a budget and sticking to it!
That was so fun, "Its bigger than both of us " 🥰🥰🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
Flower Power!!!! I love it alllll!!
FLOWER POWER! I remember some of these fabrics!! LOL
Flower Power! Spectacularly Funky Adult 60s/70s fabric
Flower power. So entertaining. And, almost, makes me want to try my hand at clothes again. Maybe a few more of your videos. 🎉
Flower Power!!! Power to the People, Right on! Sorry, got carriedxaway back to my high school days.
Flower Power! *laughing* Thank you for this, I'm so delighted to see all the stuff from that trip.
Flower Power! I just discovered your channel. Love this haul.
Flower power I'm old enough to remember some of those fabrics
Flower power and thanks for sharing all of these. So fun to see all of these vintage fabrics!
Thank you so much! Vintage brings me so much joy that I am happy to have others to share it with.
Flower power for sure ! Fun times ahead
CLOVER .and cornflowers. Love many of these fabrics but shipping to new Zealand means my bank balance is safe. Flower power rules
Flower power with EXTRA spice!
Flower Power. I know you get excited about factory folded patterns, so do I. But there is also something special when you see fabric tightly wound and centered on a flat bolt like it was wound at the mill/company. YEA. (Hate when I go to JoAnns and find a bolt with sizable amount of fabric. You get it to the cutting table to find it is piece after piece of previous cut lengths. YUCK) Love what you do.
Last time I was there, the lovely lady at the cutting counter was lamenting that, as we unrolled and unrolled and unrolled to ultimately not buy any because none of the lengths were long enough
dish soap and baking soda helps take out the yellowing in older fabrics
Flower power 🌸 had to do it, that fabric is amazingly funny I love it
Flower Power Stephanie! Some of this fabric is groovy Baby! I’m 69, tail end of the hippie generation. Love your videos.
Some lovely fabrics. A suggestion for the plaids, golf shorts, pants for fun. The kitty kat would become a knitting, crochet WIP bag for me. Some of the damaged material could be used for dolls clothes or quilting or patchwork projects. Like the fabric haul, it’s bigger than both of us.
Omg, this is all so delicious!
Isn’t it though!! I had so much fun!
Flower Power!!! 🌸🌺💐🌻. Plaid!!!!
Flower Power!!!!! Too many of those I was sewing with in high school (1972-1976). Was way to fun to watch you (A sweet young thing) enjoying finding those vintage treasures! And yes I think I will be sending a few requests for some of them. Thank you!
We are the same age. I remember those fabrics but not so much the last one and that is my favorite. I loved the guy with the mustache and those saying!
Flower Power! Loved seeing all the fabrics!
I got to 24:17 and lost my mind. I grew up right near the Dan River Mill, we used to get factory seconds from the mill store. So excited when I see anything from there in the wild!
Flower Power... Oh My why don't we have estate sales like this in New Zealand...
Flower Power! I'm a late adopter to your channel. I think this is delightful. Thank you.
Flower power 🤣 I did skip through the last 3rd to just see the fabric without details though. Definitely worth it!
Flower Power. So many ideas from this video on projects.
Flower Power! That harlequin diamond print would make great renfair pants
Ya'll, I've never clicked a link this early. Hope everyone is doing well.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
Huzzah! So glad you are here early (even though I was not able to respond immediately)
@@StephanieCanada Pish-posh, me Dear. You've got allot to manage.
Flower Power! This is my young seamstress life.
Flower power! Omg there was some awesome fabric!
Oh yes. The flower power material!! Oh for the all the fabric! I am watching this 11 months later than when you posted it and wondering what you have managed to do with it all. And yes, I'm binge watching your videos this evening! 🤣😂
Flower Power some of those fabric. My heart
Flower Power 🌺. What a great hour spent looking at all the lovely goodies! ❤️
flower power! Thanks for the fun video while hand sewing.
I feel the flower power!!
Flower Power! Woot!
Dang. at 19:49. Looks like EVERYBODY's sheets back in the day~
Flower power~
I support your dyeing efforts as long as you film it....also I want some of the linen and I'm 100% going to dye it
Oh do we have similar fabric tastes ! Loving your content and thankful to find somebody with Rachel Maksy energy to watch .
Thank you Lucy! And those fabrics were just perfection! I happy to bring all of my chaos to the internet, and glad you enjoy the chaos too.
Flower 🌼 power. Awesome fabric. I love seersucker fabric.
Gorgeous flower power. DUCHESS ❤
I had that stripe. The very first one. First dress I made. I made a cute halter top maternity dress. 1983
I love stupidly bright colars
Yay it's good to know I'm not the only one that says Spoopy😁
Flower 🌼 power! Thanks for sharing that was fun! 😊