This was an amazing experience. All About Looks is a store located here in Lubbock. The people we met there were truly wonderful and helpful. They taught us many valuable things about fabric. One things that they spoke about were the current trends in interior fabrics. Linen is huge right now. It has been popular in the past but is now making a comeback. As well as mohair, silk, jute/burlap, bamboo and wool have been extremely popular lately. The most interesting of the fabrics is definitely is the jute/burlap. One of the examples the showed us was a beautiful burlap made by Ralph Lauren which had a high, high cost. The showed us another example of burlap which was only a mere $4 per yard.
One extremely important lesson that they taught us was the difference between ordering faux leather and real leather. We learned that faux leather you order by the yard while real leather you order by the hide. This may seem like common sense to some people but in reality I understand how people can confuse this fact.
Another great factor about All About Looks was that they had a man who’s trade was reupholstering fabric. They explained to us that this was a dying trade. The reupholstering was definitely the most interesting thing. They showed us different fillings for the seat, cushions, headboards, etc. They also explained how they measure the fabric for reupholstering.
This was a great refresher on what we learned at this store. Great job Court!
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