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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2022

To mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2022, Our Social Fabric will be: donating 10% of all in person sales on Thursday September 29 donating 100% of the proceeds of all sales of ou...

Orca amount of fabric saved from landfill in August 2022!

Thanks to our donors, volunteers and customers we diverted 7,281 lbs (3,302 kg) of textiles and sewing-related materials from landfill in August 2022. Thank you for supporting us in our mission o...

Top 10 FREE Scrap Busting Projects for 2022

No matter how hard you try, it seems that sewing projects nearly always end up resulting in scraps. If you’re like us, you don’t like to waste those precious pieces of fabric. So today, we’re shari...

July 2022 - recycling totals

Thanks to our donors, volunteers and customers we diverted 2,523 lbs (1,144 kg) of textiles and sewing-related materials from landfill in July 2022. We aim to maximize the amount of fabric we dive...

Hair elastics - your creative ideas!

When we received a donation of hundreds of hair elastics we turned to our followers and newsletter subscribers asking them for their ideas of how they could be used in sewing or craft projects. Th...

Sewing with our hibiscus stretch rayon

Our latest feature fabric is this bright hibiscus stretch rayon. We received this fabric as a donation from a film production which was wrapping. Our Social Fabric was initially set up as a reactio...

Rayon and Viscose - what’s the difference?

You’ve seen our fabrics labelled as rayon or viscose but you’re not sure what the difference is? Which is better for your project? How should you pick? Well read on for our guide of how we label th...

June 2022 - recycling totals

Thanks to our donors, volunteers and customers we diverted 3,752 lbs (1,701 kg) of textiles and sewing-related materials from landfill in June 2022. Our Social Fabric is a non-profit fabric store....

Non-profit? What does it mean?

Our Social Fabric is a non-profit fabric store.  As you might already know - we take fabric that might otherwise end up in landfill, sort it and sell it to the public.  What you might not know is ...

May 2022 - recycling totals

Thanks to our donors, volunteers and customers we diverted 999 lbs (453kg) of textiles and sewing-related materials from landfill in May 2022. We aim to maximize the amount of fabric we divert fro...