African Fabric Lady

Come one come all, it’s time for African Fabric Sales to honor the quilters among us as you help us to clear out the remaining fat quarters in our inventory left over from our days as a road show business.

Some of you might not know that African Fabric Lady began as a business celebrating the gorgeous hand decorated fabrics created by hard working women and sometimes men in West Africa.  Using beautiful damask cotton fabrics, these folks create tie & dye designs, discharge designs and carved wood block wax resist batik fabrics for African Fashion and Home Decor projects both at home in Africa and elsewhere inthe world.  Until our situation changed, we were able to purchase these fabrics each year, either during our trips to Africa or through the generosity of American and African friends who helped us with the purchasing in our absence.  Unfortunately, the arrival of children in our the lives of our American friends curtailed their ability to go on buying sprees, and as often happens with long distance business arrangements, a situation of disharmony arose with the African person who was assisting us, and so we had to change our focus from the hand decorated to printed fabrics.  At least for the present.  It is our intention to return to Africa when we can, and replenish the hand-decorated inventory.

Until then, we intend to feature, at a discounted price, the inventory remaining in house.  We are starting with the fat quarters, and so we invite you to see our new category of African Textiles at the webstore.   www.africanfabricsales.com