I was looking for dotted swiss for a show I was costuming last fall.
It was impossible to find white on white at a reasonable price. I
don't think the fabric has been in style since the 1950s when my play
took place. Lots of little girl dresses were made of it then. I
finally found 1 yard on an auction website.
Sylrog
On Apr 14, 2007, at 4:59 PM, Dianne & Greg Stucki wrote:
At 01:32 PM 4/14/2007, you wrote:
I somehow got the impression that pin-dotted fabric is in style so it
would be easy to find, but I think I was wrong about that. I went to
the dentist in Berkeley on Wednesday and consoled myself by going to
three fabric stores over there (Poppy, Stonemountain, and Discount
Fabrics), and I wasn't seeing much in the way of pin dots.
As for the dotted Swiss, I asked Baltazor how well their $15/yard
100% cotton batiste white Swiss would dye. (Why is it manufacturers
are so locked into the white/blue/pink/pale yellow colors for dotted
Swiss?) They said they didn't know whether the fabric would stand up
to machine dyeing, but offered to send me half a yard free of charge
to test.
Fran >>
Fran, I was doing some poking about just a little while ago, and found
this site--don't know if you can use these, but here they are--and at
considerably less than $15 a yard!
http://www.reprodepot.com/dots1.html
Dianne
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