Modern Fabrics's Profile

Hello Arin & Janel,

This is a great post with very good comments.

We specialize in extremely durable, designer interior fabrics rescued from furniture factories throughout the Southeast.

Check out our selections listed by manufacturer, yardage, and pattern description. We always recommend you request fabric sample swatches before making a purchase, and we gladly mail fabric samples free of charge!

Also check out Apartment Therapy's recent feature about our company and online fabric store.

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/fabric-textiles/modern-fabrics-company-reclaimed-designer-fabrics-for-the-publicboston-054621

Good luck with your anticipated move and we hope we can help you with all of your fabric projects.

Please reply with any questions or comments!

Thank you from Modern Fabrics!

James Ewa Powell (owners)
http://www.modern-fabrics.com
704-740-9675

Let me start by saying thanks to Kyle of AT for this great feature on us - you've highlighted some great fabrics as well!

Much appreciated!

To help answer a few questions about our business model:

1. Modern Fabrics reclaims new designer fabrics from the cutting room floors of luxury furniture manufacturers in North Carolina.

2. Modern Fabrics makes these salvaged fabrics available to eco-conscious consumers who intend to reduce demand for virgin materials and to reduce waste. And of course we want these fabrics to be more affordable!

3. Designer fabric companies, such as Knoll Textiles, source their fabrics from numerous independent mills, both domestically and internationally. Therefore, it is conceivable without Knoll Textiles' knowledge, that exorbitant mill ends and fabric "waste" are produced on a daily basis. The question then becomes,"What happens to this waste?"

4. While textile manufacturing waste has yet to be eliminated, enlightened textile brands have begun to partner with independent mills beginning to embrace lower impact manufacturing processes. A handful of mills, worldwide, have eliminated harmful practices completely and have implemented system wide cradle-to-cradle practices.

5. Finally, all textile companies discontinue fabric designs on a daily basis. They are not necessarily discontinued because they have poor sales performance. We have found many wonderful designs discontinued because the independent mill "tooled up" for a particular design could no longer compete globally or were unwilling to innovate or modernize.

Unfortunately, our municipal landfills are often the final resting place for these fabrics. Once they are discontinued, they become a liability, take up space for newer selling fabrics, and are cumbersome to handle and deal with.

Therefore, it is essential to foster and create a secondary market for these unwanted fabrics.

Modern Fabrics is committed to building a larger market for these discarded fabrics while ensuring an ecological textile life-cycle. We want to encourage designers to utilize existing sources of textiles before resorting to consuming more raw materials. There is quite simply a glut of fabric out there that begs the attention of our creative professionals and individuals.

Please reply with any questions or comments!

Thank you from Modern Fabrics!

James Ewa Powell (owners)
http://www.modern-fabrics.com
704-740-9675