Pittsburgh: The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered
August 10, 2010 12:08 PM Subscribe
What Pittsburgh-area stores have the widest selection of upholstery fabric?
So we have a couple of new-to-us club chairs that we'd like to have reupholstered, and we need to shop for fabric. Where can the best selection be found in or near Pittsburgh? We're about a half-hour south of town, and el_lupino will be doing the shopping and bringing home swatches for me to look at, as I'm bedridden. (I'm aware that we could work with a designer, who could bring fabric books to the house, but I don't think we want to pay that extra markup.)
So we have a couple of new-to-us club chairs that we'd like to have reupholstered, and we need to shop for fabric. Where can the best selection be found in or near Pittsburgh? We're about a half-hour south of town, and el_lupino will be doing the shopping and bringing home swatches for me to look at, as I'm bedridden. (I'm aware that we could work with a designer, who could bring fabric books to the house, but I don't think we want to pay that extra markup.)
Response by poster: Thanks, librarianamy. Loom looks like a find! I should have included that we've been to Calico Corners and Jo-Ann (well, my mom has, for me) and that we are especially looking for non-chain stores. Also, our living room is in a 1960s style and we're specifically after better-quality tweedy, nubbly fabrics like those of that era.
posted by jocelmeow at 12:54 PM on August 10, 2010
posted by jocelmeow at 12:54 PM on August 10, 2010
If you're going to send him to Loom in the Strip, I should probably also mention Gene Sanes since they're down there too, but with the caveat that I've never been there. But since he's in the neighborhood anyway...
posted by librarianamy at 2:52 PM on August 10, 2010
posted by librarianamy at 2:52 PM on August 10, 2010
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For big box stores, I think the Joann's out at Robinson has the best/largest selection of home design fabric. They'll generally clip a little snip for you without a problem.
In the Strip there's a new(ish) (in that it's now open to the public, not just trade) called Loom that made me think I'd died and gone to fabric heaven, but for me that's more of a quality versus quantity shop. (Name brand designers.)
posted by librarianamy at 12:33 PM on August 10, 2010