Recommend a dress fabric shop

Teetime'sDD and Ginny, you should have met pompa, who lives in Tiptree! Hope you bought some jam!

You might think that in France with its haute couture reputation, dress fabric shops would be all over - they're not, and what there is is very expensive.
So I buy mostly online, but there are some problems. eg the colour or texture isn't always exactly the same as it is in the advert.
I bought some needlecord a couple of years ago from a company in the USA. They have a fantastic range, many types of fabric you never see in the UK, very good prices, but the postage was more than the cost of the fabric.
People have commented on the disappointing range in John Lewis - I thought that too last time I was there.

Another Abakhan devotee here. Their headquarters are on the coast road here in N Wales. Lovely new restaurant, too!

www.abakhan.co.uk/

Yes Abakhan! We have one in Hanley (Stoke on Trent). Full of fabrics of all sorts lots of sewing stuff haberdashery, bridal accessories, wool etc.
I paid all of £4 for a large piece of Cotton canvas to make a bag for something and then a smaller one to hold the vacuum cleaner tools and I still some left.

They sell a lot of stuff by weight.

Have you looked online? My favourites are Fabric Rehab, Seamstar and Cotton Patch. They have fabric by the metre as well as a great range of fabrics for patchwork and quilting projects.

There is a lovely little fabric shop in Northwood, Middlesex, on the old High Street. It is called Just Sew and as well as fabric it sells craft kits, buttons, patterns, threads and so on. It is small but perfectly formed and has wonderful window displays which are changed regularly.

Ginny is right, the Cheap Shop in Tiptree is an Aladdin's cave for art, craft and fabric.

www.thecheapshoptiptree.co.uk/

If you ever visit, we could meet for a coffee at Perrywoods

www.perrywood.co.uk/visit-perrywood/coffee-shop/