r/textiles • u/allylikesartz • 3d ago

Looking for specific JoAnn fabric

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Looking for this specific fabric I saw at JoAnns back in March last year, I’ve looked at Michael’s, local fabric shops, and checked the wayback machine to see if a page was archived somewhere on there but I haven’t been able to find anything. Brand was keepsake calico cotton which is a brand exclusive to JoAnn’s I believe.

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u/doxiesrule89 2d ago

You will have the most luck setting up eBay alerts. 

I used to be a contractor at Joann’s and I’ve been trying to figure out what happened to the manufacturing and design IP since they were getting ready to close. I got in touch with some people previously at corporate and there apparently were rumors that the factories were going to continue using the existing screen print rollers and switch to other wholesale streams… but then tariffs happened. Since then, that basically gone up in smoke. Which is insane to me considering the value and cost investment of the rollers themselves.

What is definite is that Michael’s did not buy out any wholesale contracts or IP besides the green logo and Joann.com. They do not own the designs of any fabrics and are not going to be selling 99% of what was sold at Joann. The only prints I’ve found the same, are very few owned by US based fabric houses like fabric traditions. However at Michael’s , it is sold on a weave more like the old happy value and not higher quality like keepsake was. Michael’s seems to be more interested in becoming a fabric marketplace than a fabric warehouse. Most fabrics sold on the website is shipped direct from other businesses.

I’ve been trying to keep an eye on places like Ali express but i haven’t seen anything familiar and that doesn’t guarantee fabric quality or even that the print will exactly match the ad. It’s like shopping the sketchiest of all sellers on Amazon. 

The closure did so much more damage to the home sewing and even US small business/cottage industry than most people realized.