Rodolph Designer Fabric Outlet

After finally getting to the store during their very limited hours (tuesday and thursday 10 – 1) we first had to track someone down to unlock the door and then after finding a few fabrics that would have worked were told they would have to go find out the price because what was on the tags wasn’t correct. After waiting an unreasonable amount of time the lady came back and said everything we picked out was $ 40 a yard, despite the prices on the bolts and the fact that this is supposed to be an outlet. I won’t go back nor will I recommend this place to anyone.

I guess if Squinka went to the Spring Sale (see «first to review»), we must have hit the Fall Sale on Friday ¹⁰⁄₁₆. I’m not sure how often they have these sales, but Squinks is right-​they are spectacular. The fabrics are beautiful, and even tho they advertise that the prices would be from $ 5 a yard on up, we found some beautiful sparkly sheer and elegant fabric for $ 2 a yard, enough for the drapery project we had in mind.
The outlet is open every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10am to 1pm, although they can close for extended periods of time for vacations, etc. The regular prices are still very much discounted from what you would pay at a showroom. The website doesn’t mention when they have the super sales and open up not only the outlet but their warehouse-​so I guess you have to call them to figure it all out… we happened to see a mention in the Chronicle.
Worth some sleuthing and definitely worth a detour if you have an upholstery, drapery, pillow, duvet or whatever project.

SPRING LUSTER!
the name of a risqué symphony? no.
and nope, it’s not the title of my erotic services ad.
It’s the name of a gorgeous silk fabric that comes in colors like
Wild Honey and
Tropical Nectar.
which do sound like Bond girl names…
but as usual I undress, I mean digress. fabrics make me all sensually stirred and oogly inside. especially fine silks.
And I spent ALL DAY today at the annual Rodolph Spring Sale fingering fabrics and trying not to pass out when I realized that in-​the mansion type fabrics that usually go for 120 a yard and up were on sale for anywhere from 5 to 15 dollars a yard.
sumptuous silk and linen. synthetics that mock your mocking them with their depth and color. ranges of colors and patterns that will trip that little neuro-​GOTTAHAVEIT lever and spin your brain like a steering wheel in an ice spin. Just when you think you might have to pull over, you realize there’s people to help you drive the fabric highway:
There’s a lovely lady there named Judy who knows upholstery through and through, another woman, Charlotte who has expertise in draperies — yes yes your windows will wear Ikea, but they will hate you for it and
C’MON! Don’t the eyes of your home’s soul deserve Charlotte’s way around texture and color? yes. they do.
I got help from Charlotte and Judy, but the woman who literally went the extra yard for me was the owner Cynthia. She found fabric samples, talked texture, figured out pattern repeats and fullness formulas, whipped out her calculator AND performed high math in the service of my swingin swags and drop-​dead gorgeous draperies looking just right. She made sure that I had enough yardage with as little waste as possible.
When I needed help taking the fabric out to the parking lot– my back no longer hoists anything heavier than champagne– Cynthia, without any fanfare, grabbed the bolts of fabric and brought them out to our car. Talk about a hands-​on owner.
so now my home is wondering if it’s going to look like a stuffy grown-​up lives here. Well, I’m definitely keeping the singing mermaids on the walls, the clanging squeeze-​handle pirate sword and the heart-​shaped giant bubble wands.
The thing is most of their fabrics, even though high-​end all have such a splash of fantasia in the design that they”l fit right in.
Yeah, it’ll still be the Nutcracker Suite in here,
but Curtain Call will be FABULOUS every day!
*curtsy to the conductor*
THANK YOU RODOLPH.