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Silk Fabrics
Because it’s pretty.
Aurora Silk | Natural silks, Peace silks, natural dyes |
Prism Silks | Great selection of all varieties of silk fabrics.The hand dyed silks and cork fabric for bagmaking popped out at me. |
Silk Baron | Dupioni silk in 200 colors, plus swatches of all fabrics available.They will even custom dye a color for you if you don’t see what you’re looking for. |
Thai Silks | Silks ready to dye, scarves for silk painting, huge variety of silks of all types.There’s even hand painted silks, and spoilers–they’re beautiful! |
Tailoring and Menswear Fabrics
Also beautiful but in a different way. Sew something classy with help from these online fabric shops.
B Black & Sons | A very comprehensive collection of tailoring supplies and fabrics. If you want to learn to tailor, this place is a great spot to find all the gear! |
British Fabrics | A fabulous Ebay store with British cashmere, worsted wool, tweed and mohair. Fabric is sold as pre-cut lengths so you can find enough for that suit you’ve got in mind. I’m drooling over the super 120s. I’d embarrass myself to admit how much I stalked this store when I was trying to source fabric for my husband’s 10th Doctor Suit. |
Charles Zarit | Tailoring supplies at excellent prices. A colleague from Sew Much Talent recently recommended their hymo canvas. |
Drapers Italy | Italian suiting fabrics with the quality you expect from made in Italy suiting fabrics! |
English Suit Fabrics | This place seems to have very hands-on customer service with a swatching program and then a special follow up to make sure you’re happy with the suiting fabrics you order. |
Joel & Son Fabrics | UK shop featuring haute couture fabrics including some pretty pick-your-jaw-off-the-floor suiting fabrics. |
Online Fabric stores by country
Thus far in this list, I’ve noted countries in the descriptions if it fit, but the rest have been US shops. Here are some online fabric stores by country.
Australian and New Zealand Online Fabric Stores
A shout out to my friend Maria of Velosews and the Sew Organised Style Podcast for helping me with the research for this section!
A+R Fabrics | Curated natural fiber fabrics like tencel, ikat, cottons, linens, cotton twills |
Darn Cheap Fabrics | Cool jacquards, special occasion fabrics, plus you gotta love a shop that has a section called, “unusual”! |
Fibresmith | Nice collection of natural fiber fabrics, bag making supplies, Merchant & Mills oilskin. The cotton/linens are particularly nice! |
House of Cloth | A lot of natural fiber designer fabrics + Bernina dealer. |
Indie Stitches | Collection of indie patterns and notions |
Jimmy Buttons | Laces, trims, hardware and of course buttons! |
Kylie and the Machine | Woven labels for your sewing projects. |
Little & Fox | Lovely upholstery and home fabrics in New Zealand. |
Lush Fabrics | Wide collection of mostly knits in Perth. They also have faux leather and suede and elastic trims. |
Maaidesign | Modern designer fabrics, large range of solid color high-quality fabrics aimed at helping you create a capsule wardrobe. |
Minerva’s Bower | Designer fabrics, boiled wools, linens, merino wools, cotton chambrays, ponte knits. |
Miss Maude | A New Zealand shop with curated color collections, fine fabrics and haberdashery. |
Nerida Hansen | Lisa Congdon fabrics, linen cotton, cotton sateens, custom printing. |
New Zealand Merino and Fabrics | New Zealand shop with extensive merino selection and wool knits |
Pitt Trading | It calls itself “The designer store for beautiful fabrics.” I’m pretty impressed with their picot elastics and linens! |
Potter and Co | Japanese wools, dyed yarn linens, rope dyed denim |
Rathdowne Fabrics | Polar fleeces, cotton drill, voile, poplins, and linens. They were the supplier for Australia’s Project Runway! |
Sew Active Fabrics | source for activewear fabrics in Australia. Definitely check out the selection of wicking compression spandex! |
Sew By Night Studio | super cute visor hat kits. |
Sewing Gem | Designer fabrics and haberdashery, Gertie patterns, Rossini Fabrics Australia. |
Spotlight | The JoAnn of Australia, featuring Gertie fabrics. |
The Drapery | Merchant & Mills notions, fine natural fiber fabrics. |
The Fabric Store | Awesome selection of merino wools, silks, linens, Liberty of London. |
Voodoo Rabbit | Bagmaking supplies and fabrics, sewing patterns and kits, |
Zebra Fabrics | Specializing in stretch/knit fabrics. |
Canadian Online Fabric Stores
I know it’s tough for Canadians to shop for fabric from the US what with the shipping. So here’s some good options in Canada itself.
Black Rabbit | Some really fun themed knit fabrics here! Also Kraft Tex fabrics which are a hybrid between paper and fabric that sews like leather–sounds really cool! |
Club Tissus | Fabrics for fashion, kids, special occasion, activewear, swimwear, lingerie, and home decor. |
Darrellthomas.com | Beautiful silk panels, wools, and other fine sewing fabrics. |
Discovery Fabrics | extensive selection of Polartec including Power Wool, technical fabrics, flame retardant fabrics in British Columbia as well as dance, swim, outerwear, performance and natural fabrics. |
Fabricville | Canadian chain fabric store and the largest Canadian online fabric store. |
Flare Fabrics | Waxed canvas, printed cork fabric, quilting pre-cuts, and bagmaking supplies. |
Fridaysoff | Curated modern fabrics. There are monthly subscription boxes of perfectly coordinated fabrics. |
Iloveneedlework.com | Fun modern fabrics and workspace in Hamilton, Ontario. |
L’Oiseau Fabrics | Some absolutely gorgeous knit fabric panels, eco-friendly and organic fabrics, super cute Alpine fleece and sweatshirt prints. |
Mimi Fabrics | Bagmaking supplies, wide variety of fabric including softshell, double gauze, French terry, fleeces, plus a nice lookbook for inspiration! |
Pins & Needles Fabrics | Fun novelty prints and designer quilting fabrics. There’s doll panels too! |
Spool & Spindle | Natural fiber fabrics, patterns, and PDF printing. |
UK Online Fabric Stores
If YouTube has convinced me of anything, it’s that it sure seems like there’s amazing fabric shops everywhere in the UK! Here’s some great ones.
Fabric Magpie | Outerwear fabric, denim, jersey, tencel, plus swatch service. |
Guthrie & Ghani | Fabric and yarn shop from the lovely Lauren Guthrie of Great British Sewing Bee fame. |
Higgs & Higgs | Wide variety of fabrics including a really nice collection of cable knit jerseys. |
Liberty | The iconic London luxury fabric in those beautiful prints! |
Pink Coat Club | Fun sewing themed gifts like enamel pins, necklaces, key chains and charms. |
Raystitch | Modern dressmaking fabrics and some of the coolest buttons I’ve seen! |
Sew Me Sunshine | Dressmaking fabrics, deadstock fabrics, happy labels for your sewing projects, and the ever adorable teacup pincushions that always seem to sell out! |
Sew Over It | Curated dressmaking fabrics specially recommended for Sew Over It patterns. |
Sewisfaction | Dressmaking fabrics, kits, indie patterns, and fun sewing themed gifts like a really cool giant thimble organizer. |
Stitchybee | Nice collection of dressmaking fabrics for the modern sewist. |
Stof and Stil | Huge selection of sewing fabrics. The water resistant beaver nylon caught my eye! |
Truro Fabrics | Dressmaking and craft fabrics. Definitely check out the wool tweeds and plaids! |
For sure I’ve missed any number of great fabric shops, but definitely I hope this is a good start for helping you find some good online fabric stores. I’ll be adding to this to just keep this growing as a resource for people.
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Now that you’ve found all this awesome fabric, here’s some fabric organization ideas to help make your sewing space more usable.
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Now that you have a list of places to shop, here’s how to make your online fabric shopping a better experience.
16 tips for better fabric shopping online
It’s a brave new world shopping for fabric online. But just because you’re missing seeing and touching doesn’t mean that you can’t become a pro at this! Here’s how…


Elizabeth Farr is the writer behind the Elizabeth Made This blog where she shares helpful sewing tips, step by step sewing tutorials and videos to help you explore your creativity through sewing. She has written sewing Eguides and patterns, been a featured teacher at Rebecca Page’s Sewing Summit and Jennifer Maker’s Holiday Maker Fest and her work has appeared in Seamwork and Altered Couture magazines. She also created a line of refashioned garments for SEWN Denver. When her sewing machine isn’t humming, she’s playing and teaching violin, and hanging around a good strategic board game with her husband and 4 kids.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
INCREDIBLE!
Happy to do it Alethia!
Very comprehensive, but I think you missed The Sewing Workshop ( unless I just didn’t see it, if so I apologize) . I would classify it under Fine Fabrics.
Ah indeed. I had forgotten about them. Linda Lee is a great teacher! I will add that when I update in a couple days. Thanks Kathy!
Amazing list! Definitely a Save!
Thanks Shannon! Glad it’s helpful to you!
This is really very kind of you Elizabeth! (And a ton of work!!) It is appreciated more than you will ever know!! Thank you!
You’re so welcome Myra!
Oh Elizabeth. I love what you’ve done with all of this information. It really is a jumbo guide. You’ve done an amazing piece of work. I hope everyone comes here and sees what a great job you’ve done. Thank you so much.
Thanks Maria! And there’s more coming!
I’m definitely going to bookmark this page! Thanks for putting this together, Elizabeth.
You bet Nicki! It was a labor of love!
Fantastic!
Glad it’s helpful to you Colleen!
Another online fabric store is Sugared Sage Fabrics
https://sugaredsage.com