Fabrics Garden

great fabrics. but watch it! the guy tried to charge me $ 8 for 11yds of standard $ 2 tulle. First, he cut the wrong number of yards. Then, at the register he quoted me $ 98. I was like WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. He proceeded to tell me that what I got was a higher quality tulle (which was certainly not true). I have purchased from there before. He was rude and told me I had to CALM DOWN when I started to get agitated. He said «I already cut it. I told you $ 8 a yd» He certainly did NOT. I finally talked to the nice man in charge and he said to charge me the $ 2 price.
I have shopped here MANY times. I usually have a friendly exchange with the cutters but this guy was pissing me off.
He is the same man who quoted me $ 65 per yd for a beaded lace. I said OK i need ONE yard. He says «OK. here i’ll give you a yard and a half». Me, assuming he meant as a nice gesture. He charged me for the extra ½ yard I didn’t ask for!!! I ended up paying so much more for a fabric I only needed a small amount of.
BE CAREFUL!!!

Excellent for dressy Colors, Selection, Price & Advice: I shopped at 13 Garment District and suburban fabric stores looking for Mother of the Bride dress fabrics in lace and chiffon. I loved B&Js, but even they only had winter dark tones for an early September wedding. I was desperate for pretty colored fabric. Then on 8^th Ave., between 37^th-​38^th, I bumped into the far less fancy than B&Js — NY Elite shop. Elite it is not, it is more like an Indian, Arab or African marketplace, where the diverse workers had walls crowded with rich, gorgeous and beaded colors in formal fabrics.
I was then sent to the main store — FABRICS GARDEN — a larger, similar experience, and found tons of selection, including 5 choices of royal blue silk chiffon from Italy. PLUS, they have an unmatched asset — a remarkable Costume Designer — Maria 0 who is there daily free of charge, to advise on design and materials. She was a fantastic find!
I never would have known to choose light color liner fabric for tonal richness and nude spandex under the lace without MARIA. They had everything I needed and at the BEST prices. Ask for the lovely MIZAN — who is wonderful by email too. He let me know exactly what was in stock in advance so I didn’t waste my trips. If you are a person who can deal with the adventure of a foreign marketplace experience, along with some bizarre customers, then FABRICS GARDEN is a true find, and Maria a marvel. While I was there she had a steady flow of customers to design and sew dresses for, including brides, mothers of brides, Broadway theater, Venice Carnivale and other interesting clientele. Fabrics Garden is a BEST FIND for dress fabrics!

This is by far the best fabrics store on the block. I’ve being shopping at this store for over 8 years and was never disappointed. I will go to the other so called «big fabrics stores» but don’t find what i need, but whenever i go to FABRICS GARDEN I always find what i need. The new staff is really helpful and the boss really approachable. The have great selection and great price, but you just have to negotiate. You will always get a better price for great fabric quality compare to the other «Fancy fabrics stores».

Came looking for cotton prints but they didn’t have anything that caught my eye.

No stars, but one star because they make you give at least one. The guy that runs this place is an actual thief. Avoid at all costs.
Made sure to be very clear on the price before my material was cut, then the guy went ahead and charged me more per yard than we had just agreed upon! I told him, ‘excuse me, you just told me the price was [x].’ and he denied us ever having the conversation! He then started shouting, calling me a liar, and saying I was trying to rob him. This was the little short guy with small rectangular glasses.
Do NOT come here unless you want to be robbed.

Granted there was a great fabric selection but nothing had a price tag which really annoys me! My friend that was with me said that that just means the price is negotiable. Go figure. When I tried this to negotiate, the guy started talking really fast & asked me to name a price according to how much I would buy. I said $ 5 per yard for 4 yds of a striped knit. He said $ 10. Dude that’s not a ‘good deal’! There were better prices at other stores. I was visiting from Chicago so I had plenty of time to visit a lot of stores in NYC. My favorite store was a little shop in Brooklyn by the name of Nur Jahan Fabrics. GREAT prices. Very friendly & generous staff!

This is probably the biggest fabric shop in the district and while I was wowed by their grand selection, it can be a bit overwhelming because they have so much to offer. They are distinct for they carry their more print cotton fabrics than most other stores. I remember buying denim from them years ago. Their print fabric is a little pricey from $ 8-​$ 12 a yard but as far as I know, they have a bigger selection. I got the pretty Imperial floral Robert Kaufman fabric. Super excited to work with it.

This fabric shop has some great prices, but there is a reason they’re able to offer such deals: much of the fabric is trash. I recently purchased some wool there for a winter coat. Upon delivering the wool to my tailor, he held the fabric in his hands and gave it a tug. It ripped apart in his hands fairly easily. This was clearly a sign that it was of poor quality, and my tailor said I should return it. When I attempted to return the fabric, I was greeted with hostility by the store manager. He even went so far as to say that «of course it will rip if you tug on it really hard.» I proceeded to rip it with my own hands in front of him, and yet was ultimately refused a refund.
Lesson learned. Avoid Fabrics Garden at all costs.

Saw the workers smoking cigarettes IN the store! Wouldn’t go here if you want clean fabrics…

This is my go to place for fabric. Great selection. Always negotiate the price.

I ventured into store with my friend to pick up some interface. They have really good quality interface here for a cheap price buuuuuuut the guy that cut it for us was pretty creepy. We were talking a little with him until he got on the topic of boyfriends with my friend. I think he was joking but he kinda went too far by grabbing my friend and pulling her close to him which creeped her out.
We didn’t want to come back but we needed more interface and this was the only place we know where to get some good interface for cheap. The 2^nd time we came back we made sure another guy was there to ask him to cut the fabric for us. He was nice and he kept calling us ‘sistah’ and we made sure he was around so the other guy won’t get creepy on us again.
Overall, it wasn’t that bad as long as ‘brothah’ is around. The fabric quality here is good but it’s a little bit on the expensive side for poor students like us. They are willing to give discounts though and you can bargain and push the price less than 50% of the original. That is, if you know how to bargain (my friend does).

On Father’s Day we were roaming the streets looking for that fabric store that was featured on Project Runway. My friend was excited to find material for her curtains. I was excited to see the staff which is notorious for being good looking. Turns out it was closed. Boo. But we happened to come across this Fabric Garden…
It was huge and the selection was really good. We zeroed in on some great sheer material my friend would double layer to create the perfect curtain effect. The man gave us a good deal. And the place wasn’t crowded. So I guess if you really need fabric come here. If you want to stare at the staff then you know where to go.