4 Places to Buy Fabric Online

There are literally thousands of websites where you can buy fabric online these days. One of the great things about buying fabric online is the obvious convenience. Perhaps, during the various lockdowns, fabric shops were closed in the country where you live. Not so in France where the government categorised fabric shops as ‘essential’ and allowed them to stay open. Yipee!

With so much spare time to sew, all we needed was the right fabric to get us going. Ordering online could deliver all your fabric wishes directly to your door in just a few clicks. But with the ‘information super highway’ giving us, as always, too much choice, how can we possibly decide? Well, to start with here are my 4 personal tried and tested favourite places to buy fabric online.

Bridal Fabrics
www.bridalfabrics.co.uk

Being a bridalwear designer I have to start with a bridalwear fabric specialist. Based in the UK, the Bridal Fabrics warehouse is stocked with a seemingly endless supply of sumptuous silks, satins, crepes, laces and tulles. Many of their fabrics are available in a variety of colours and they even offer a service where they will dye lace to a colour of your choice. As the saying goes: “you get what you pay for”, so for high quality silk and lace expect to pay around 80-100€ per metre. But other fabrics such as tulles and satins are available for a much more modest price, and with no minimum order quantity, they are one of my firm favourites.

To combat the downsides of buying fabric online, Bridal Fabrics have produced high quality videos of much of their fabric selection. If you still want to touch the fabric before you commit, you can order up to 3 samples for FREE! Or buy one of their very well presented fabric sample books.

Delivery is quick and painless, even all the way down to little old me in the south of France.

Spoonflower
www.spoonflower.com

I haven’t yet found anywhere online that has as much variety and choice of fabric as you can find at Spoonflower. Their unique (and brilliant) idea is that anyone can upload their own design on the Spoonflower website and have it printed to order. And then, if you think that the design you’ve made is so beautiful that you just have to share it with the world, you can also make your designs available so that anyone, anywhere can buy fabric printed with your fabric design.

And that’s not all…!

As well as having thousands and thousands of unique fabric patterns designed by clever people from all over the world at your fingertips, Spoonflower will then let you choose exactly which type of fabric you’d like your chosen design printed onto. Choose form dozens of fabric types including cotton, linen, satin, jersey, fleece, denim and too many more to mention. Can you imagine it?! Your new outfit of denim jeans, paired with a jersey t-shirt and fleece hat, all in the same print!! The possibilities are truly endless!

Tissus.net

I love a well laid out, easy to navigate website. And that’s exactly what Tissus.net offer! Easily search their extensive fabric range by project type, fabric type, brand etc.

From plain cottons, to patterned jerseys and colourful crepes you’ll find a great range of fabric to satisfy all your everyday sewing needs.

Another reason to love Tissus.net is there sliding pricing scale. Pay less per metre the more fabric you buy!

Alltissus.fr

Another website offering a fantastic selection of everyday fabrics for the home sewist. But with a hidden gem!

In their section for ‘Clothing Fabric’ you’ll find a sub-section for ‘3-metre lengths’ of fabric. I’ve heard other dressmakers say that if you see a fabric you love but you’re not sure yet what project you might use it for, buy 3 metres of the fabric and then decide later. 3 metres of fabric is enough to sew mot things. Alltissus.net have taken this idea and ran with it, offering 3 metres of fabric for as little as 4€ or 5€. That’s ting, not 4€ per metre, but 4€ for 3 metres of fabric!!! For those prices I’m happy to oder now and decide what I’ll make later!

Have you found any other awesome websites where you can buy fabric online? Let me know if the comments!

Kim